[Maine-birds] Additional Highlights This Week and Shorebird High Counts, 8/31-9/6.

Hi all,

One other observation of note in addition to our WaCo trip and Sandy Point this week:

- 1 hen Blue-winged Teal (FOF), Brunswick-Topsham Dam, Topsham, 8/31 (with Saturday Morning Birdwalk group).

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

AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHER: 2 ad, Pine Point, Scarborough, 9/6.

Black-bellied Plover: 100+, Lubec Bar and Flats, 9/1 (with Beth Edmonds, Dan Nickerson, and Jeannette),

AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER: 1 ad, Lubec Bar and Flats, 9/1 (with Beth Edmonds, Dan Nickerson, and Jeannette). 

Semipalmated Plover: 157, Pine Point, 9/6.

Killdeer: 4, Highland Road, Brunswick, 8/31 (with Saturday Morning Birdwalk group).

Ruddy Turnstone: 6, Lubec Bar and Flats, 9/1 (with Beth Edmonds, Dan Nickerson, and Jeannette).

Sanderling: 25, Mowry Beach, Lubec, 9/3 (with Beth Edmonds, Dan Nickerson, and Jeannette).

Dunlin (FOF): 1 juv, Lubec Bar and Flats, 9/1 (with Beth Edmonds, Dan Nickerson, and Jeannette).

Least Sandpiper: 40, Mowry Beach, Lubec, 9/3 (with Beth Edmonds, Dan Nickerson, and Jeannette).

White-rumped Sandpiper: 4, Mowry Beach, Lubec, 9/3 (with Beth Edmonds, Dan Nickerson, and Jeannette).

BAIRD'S SANDPIPER (FOY): 1 juv, Lubec Bar and Flats, 9/1 (with Beth Edmonds, Dan Nickerson, and Jeannette) and Mowry Beach, Lubec, 9/3 (with Beth Edmonds, Dan Nickerson, and Jeannette).

Semipalmated Sandpiper: 275, Mowry Beach, Lubec, 9/3 (with Beth Edmonds, Dan Nickerson, and Jeannette).

WESTERN SANDPIPER: 1 juv, Pine Point, 9/6.

Short-billed Dowitcher: 4, Wharton Point, Brunswick, 8/31 (with Saturday Morning Birdwalk group).

Spotted Sandpiper: 2, Petit Manan Point, 9/3 (with Jeannette). 

Solitary Sandpiper: 1, Sandy Point Morning Flight, Yarmouth, 9/6.

Lesser Yellowlegs: 2, Long Cove Rest Area, Ellsworth, 9/3 (with Jeannette).

"Eastern" Willet (getting late): 2, Pine Point, 9/6.

Greater Yellowlegs: 8, Pelreco Marsh, Scarborough Marsh, 9/6.

-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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