[Maine-birds] Additional Highlights this Week and Shorebird High Counts, 8/24-30

Hi all,

A handful of my additional sightings of note from the past seven days (I was out of state for much of the week), included:

-  4 Blue-winged Teal, Florida Lake Park, Freeport, 8/24 (with Saturday Morning Birdwalk group).

- 1 lingering juvenile Roseate Tern, Pine Point, Scarborough, 8/25 (with Kristen Lindquist).

- 12 White-winged Scoters, Pine Point Beach, Scarborough, 8/25 (with Kristen Lindquist).

- 1 Red-necked Grebe, Ocean Avenue, Biddeford Pool, 8/25 (with Kristen Lindquist).

- 1 female RUDDY DUCK and 1 female BUFFLEHEAD, Sanford Sewerage facility, 8/29.

- migrant Merlins in a few coastal locations.

 

My shorebird high counts this week:

Black-bellied Plover: 128 (most if not all adults) - Pine Point, 8/25 (with Kristen Lindquist).

AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER (FOY): 1 adult, Hill's Beach, Biddeford, 8/25 (with Kristen Lindquist).

Semipalmated Plover: 168 - Pine Point, 8/25 (with Kristen Lindquist).

Killdeer: 6-8, Private property in Lyman, 8/29.

AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHER: 2 adults - Pine Point, 8/25 (with Kristen Lindquist).

Greater Yellowlegs: 6, Pine Point, 8/25 (with Kristen Lindquist).

Lesser Yellowlegs: 24, Wharton Point, Brunswick, 8/26.

Solitary Sandpiper: singles at several locations.

"Eastern" Willet: 6 juveniles - Pine Point, 8/25 (with Kristen Lindquist).

"WESTERN" WILLET (FOY): 2 juvs, Pine Point, 8/25 (with Kristen Lindquist).

Spotted Sandpiper: 16, Sanford Sewerage facility, Sanford, 8/29.

Whimbrel: 1 - Pine Point, 8/25 (with Kristen Lindquist).

MARBLED GODWIT: 1 juv continues, Hill's Beach, Biddeford, 8/25 (with Kristen Lindquist; Photos).

Ruddy Turnstone: 26, Ocean Avenue, 8/25 (with Kristen Lindquist).

Sanderling: 44, Ocean Avenue, 8/25 (with Kristen Lindquist).

Semipalmated Sandpiper: 692, Ocean Avenue, 8/25 (with Kristen Lindquist).

Least Sandpiper: 65 (two adults), Sanford Sewerage facility, 8/29.

White-rumped Sandpiper: 8 adults - Pine Point, 8/25 (with Kristen Lindquist).

Short-billed Dowitcher: 15 juvs, Pine Point, 8/25 (with Kristen Lindquist).

 

-Derek

 

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