[Maine-birds] Additional Highlights This Week+ and Shorebird High Counts, 8/14-23

Hi all,

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

- 1 continuing adults WHITE-FACED IBIS, Eastern Road Trail, Scarborough Marsh, 8/15 (with Pat Moynahan and Brad Zitske). 

- "PATCHES," the TRICOLORED HERON X white egret sp. HYBRID, Eastern Road Trail, 8/15 ( with Pat Moynahan and Brad Zitske). 

- 1 male White-winged Scoter, Simpson's Point, Brunswick, 8/17 (with Saturday Morning Birdwalk group).

- 4-6 WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILLS (FOY), 1 Boreal Chickadee, 2 American Bitterns, etc, Shirley Bog, Shirley, 8/19 (with Jeannette).

- 1 Bicknell's Thrush, 6-8 Boreak Chickadees, 2 Blackpoll Warblers, etc, Big Moose Mountain, 8/20 (with Jeannette).

- 1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Old Town House Park, North Yarmouth, 8/21 (few and far between for me this year).

- 1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Hidden Pond Resort, Kennebunkport, 8/22 (with client from Massachusetts).

- 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Timber Point, Biddeford, 8/22 (with client).

- 1 White-winged Scoter, East Point, Biddeford Pool, 8/22 (with client).

And my shorebird high counts over the past 10 days were as follows:

Black-bellied Plover: 220, Hill's Beach, Biddeford, 8/16.

Semipalmated Plover: 380+, Pine Point, Scarborough, 8/15 (with Pat Moynahan).

Piping Plover: 8, Pine Point, 8/15 (with Pat Moynahan).

Killdeer: 4, Pelreco Marsh, Scarborough Marsh, 8/15 (with Pat Moynahan).
AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHER: 2ad and 2 juv,  Pine Point, 8/15 (with Pat Moynahan), 2 ad with 1 juv, Hill's Beach, 8/16.

Whimbrel: 1, Pine Point, 8/15 (with Pat Moynahan) and 1, Hill's Beach, 8/16.

Ruddy Turnstone: 5, Hill's Beach, 8/16.

Sanderling: 14, Hill's Beach, 8/16.

Least Sandpiper: 89, Eastern Road Trail, 8/15 ( with Pat Moynahan and Brad Zitske). 

White-rumped Sandpiper: 

Pectoral Sandpiper: 

Semipalmated Sandpiper: 250+, Pine Point, 8/15 (with Pat Moynahan).

Short-billed Dowitcher: 24, Hill's Beach, 8/16.

Spotted Sandpiper: 

Solitary Sandpiper:

Lesser Yellowlegs: 34, Wharton Point, Brunswick, 8/17 (with Saturday Morning Birdwalk group). 

"Eastern" Willet: 1 juv, Pine Point, 8/1

"WESTERN" WILLET (FOY): 1 ad Pine Point, 8/15 (with Pat Moynahan) and 1, Wharton Point, Brunswick, 8/17 (My first at this location, I believe. With Saturday Morning Birdwalk group).

Greater Yellowlegs: 14, Pine Point, 8/15 (with Pat Moynahan).

-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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