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

Hi all,

A few other observations of note for me over the past seven days included:

- 1 ad. LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL, Popham Beach State Park, Phippsburg, 8/27 (with Jeannette).

- 1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Pineland-Bradbury Corridor Trail, Pownal, 8/27.

- 1 female LONG-TAILED DUCK, Biddeford Pool Beach, Biddeford, 8/29 (with Marion Sprague).

- 1 "PATCHES, JR" hybrid egret/heron, Eastern Road Trail, Scarborough Marsh, 8/29 (with Marion Sprague).

- 500-800 Common Nighthawks, Pineland Farm, New Gloucester, 8/29 (with Jeannette).

- 31 migrants at Sandy Point, including 1 Prairie Warbler, 8/30 (as winds shifted to SW immediately before dawn).

And my shorebird high counts over the past seven days were as follows (sorry for the erroneous incomplete post last week; it was moot by the time I noticed the error):

AMERICAN AVOCET: 1 continuing, Eastern Road Trail, Scarborough Marsh, 8/29 (with Marion Sprague).

AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHER: 2ad and 1 juv,  Pine Point, Scarborough, 8/26 (with Jeannette). 

Black-bellied Plover: 110, Hill's Beach, Biddeford, 8/29 (with Marion Sprague).

AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER (FOY): 1 Ad, Pine Point, 8/26 (with Jeannette) and 1 ad, Eastern Road Trail, 8/29 (with Marion Sprague). 

Semipalmated Plover: 114, Pine Point, Scarborough, 8/26 (with Jeannette).

Piping Plover: 6, Popham Beach State Park, 8/27 (with Jeannette). 

Killdeer: 18, Mayall Road, Gray/New Gloucester, 8/29.
Whimbrel: 10, Ocean Avenue, Biddeford Pool, 8/29 (with Marion Sprague).

Ruddy Turnstone: 2, Biddeford Pool Beach, Biddeford, 8/29 (with Marion Sprague).

Red Knot (FOF): 6, Hill's Beach, 8/29 (with Marion Sprague).

STILT SANDPIPER: 1 juv, Eastern Road Trail, 8/29 (with Marion Sprague).

Sanderling: 112, Popham Beach State Park, Phippsburg, 8/27 (with Jeannette).

Least Sandpiper: 70+, Eastern Road Trail, 8/29 (with Marion Sprague).

White-rumped Sandpiper: 12, Biddeford Pool Beach, 8/29 (with Marion Sprague).

Pectoral Sandpiper: 1, Eastern Road Trail, 8/29 (with Marion Sprague).

Semipalmated Sandpiper: 400, Biddeford Pool Beach, 8/29 (with Marion Sprague).

WESTERN SANDPIPER: 1 juv, Eastern Road Trail, 8/29 (with Marion Sprague).

Short-billed Dowitcher: 16, Eastern Road Trail, 8/29 (with Marion Sprague).

Spotted Sandpiper: 2, Littlejohn Island Preserve, Yarmouth, 8/30 and Royal River Park, Yarmouth, 8/30.

Lesser Yellowlegs: 74, Eastern Road Trail, 8/29 (with Marion Sprague).

Greater Yellowlegs: 6, Eastern Road Trail, 8/29 (with Marion Sprague).

-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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