Today we headed to the Addison marshes to check out the ponds near the Pleasant River Bridge. There were 19 Lesser Yellowlegs, 4 Greater Yellowlegs, 80 Semipalmated Plover, 25+ Least Sandpipers and 75 Semipalmated Sandpipers. What a great place to get nice close looks at whatever is in the pond!
The weekly roundup for Flat Bay is 1,000+ mixed shorebirds on a daily basis (the peeps are about a half-mile from us so in the afternoon facing west it's difficult to see all field marks). Least Sandpipers, Semipalmated Sandpipers, Semipalmated Plover, Black-bellied Plover, Short-billed Dowitchers, both yellowlegs - and today the return of the Whimbrel!!!! After a week's absence, 114 birds flew onto the mudflats on the west side of the bay during the evening low tide.
I heard a Yellow-billed Cuckoo while I was walking early this morning - about a half mile from our house.
Anne Archie
Harrington, ME
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