[Maine-birds] This Week's Highlights, 6/30-7/6

Hi all,

My observations of note over the past seven days included the following:

- Long Falls Dam Road area, 6/30 (with Greg Drummond and "The Thrushes of Maine" weekend tour group):

2 Mourning Warblers

14+ Red Crossbills

1 Bay-breasted Warbler

1 Northern Harrier

1 Palm Warbler, etc, etc

- Lexington TWP at dusk, 6/30 (with Greg Drummond and "The Thrushes of Maine" weekend tour group):

2 Eastern Whip-poor-wills

1 Northern Goshawk

5+ Wilson's Snipe

2+ American Woodcocks, etc.

- 9+ Bicknell's Thrushes, Sugarloaf Mountain, 7/1 (with Greg Drummond and "The Thrushes of Maine" weekend tour group):

- 20-25+ Purple Martins, 15+ Black Terns, 1 Pied-billed Grebe, etc, Messalonskee Lake and Depot Road, Belgrade, 7/1 (with "The Thrushes of Maine" weekend tour group).

- 4 Upland Sandpipers, 16+ Grasshopper Sparrows, etc, Kennebunk Plains, 7/3 (with Jeannette).

- 1 "EASTERN" WILLET, Sanford Lagoons, 7/3 (Very rare inland and away from salt water; with Jeannette).

- Cap n'Fish Boothbay Harbor Whale Watch, 7/4 (with Marion Sprague and Jeannette):

800-1000 Wilson's Storm-Petrels

120+ Great Shearwaters

2 Sooty Shearwaters (FOY)

2 Atlantic Puffins

-Derek

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 Derek and Jeannette Lovitch

 Freeport Wild Bird Supply

 541 Route One, Suite 10

 Freeport, ME 04032

 207-865-6000

 www.freeportwildbirdsupply.com  

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