Friday 12 August 2016

[Maine-birds] Additional Highlights this Week and Shorebird High Counts, 8/6-12.

Hi all,
A couple more observations of note over the past seven days included:
- continuing LITTLE EGRET (note: by today, it has lost both of its long head plumes), Great Pond, Biddeford Pool, 8/12.
- 1 continuing Red-necked Grebe, Ocean Avenue, Biddeford Pool, 8/12.

My shorebird high counts over the past seven days were as follows:

Black-bellied Plover: 115, Wharton Point, Brunswick, 8/11.
Semipalmated Plover: 144, Hill's Beach, Biddeford, 8/12.
Piping Plover: 4 (1ad, 3 juv), Hill's Beach, 8/12.
Killdeer: 8, Highland Road, Brunswick, 8/11.
AMERICAN AVOCET: 1, as previously reported, Pine Point, Scarborough, 8/7 (with Birds on Tap - Roadtrip!) tour group).
Greater Yellowlegs: 12, Wharton Point, 8/11.
Lesser Yellowlegs: 53, Yarmouth Town Landing, Yarmouth, 8/6 (with Saturday Morning Birdwalk group).
"Eastern" Willet: 6, Eastern Road Trail, Scarborough Marsh, 8/7 (with Birds on Tap - Roadtrip! tour group).
Spotted Sandpiper: 3, Great Pond, Biddeford Pool, 8/12.
Ruddy Turnstone: 200+, Eastern Egg Rock via Hardy Boat Puffin cruise, 8/8 (with Jeannette and friends from NY).
Sanderling: 72, Biddeford Pool Beach, Biddeford, 8/12.
Semipalmated Sandpiper: 224, Wharton Point, 8/11.
Least Sandpiper: 30+, Eastern Road Trail, 8/7 (with Birds on Tap - Roadtrip! tour group).
White-rumped Sandpiper: 2, Biddeford Pool Beach, 8/12.
BAIRD'S SANDPIPER: 1 juv, Great Pond, Biddeford Pool, 8/12.
Short-billed Dowitcher: 33, Wharton Point, Brunswick, 8/11.

-Derek
 
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 Derek and Jeannette Lovitch
 Freeport Wild Bird Supply
 541 Route One, Suite 10
 Freeport, ME 04032
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