[Maine-birds] This Week's Highlights and Shorebird High Counts, 8/1-7.



Hi all,

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

- Sporadic coastal plain RED CROSSBILLS continue - as they have been for almost two months now. But my only one this week was a single over Old Town House Park, North Yarmouth, 8/1 (with Saturday Morning Birdwalk group).

- 1 DICKCISSEL (FOY), Wharton Point, Brunswick, 8/4 (with Jeannette). 

- Scattered Yellow-billed Cuckoos (and more vociferous Black-billeds) continue as usual at this time of year, including one calling in our yard (where annual) on 8/4. 

- 4 Surf Scoters, Dyer Point, Cape Elizabeth, 8/5.

- 1 continuing TRICOLORED HERON X SMALL WHITE EGRET SP(S) and 1 continuing adult WHITE-FACED IBIS, Eastern Road Trail, 8/5.

- 3 juvenile YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERONS (FOY), Great Pond, Biddeford Pool, 8/7 (with Pay Moynahan).

And with shorebird migration in full swing (peaking for adults of many species in fact), these are my high counts over the past week:

Black-bellied Plover: 51, Wharton Point, Brunswick, 8/4 (with Jeannette).

Semipalmated Plover: 303, Pine Point, Scarborough,  8/5. 

Piping Plover: 10, Popham Beach State Park, Phippsburg, 8/3 (with Jeannette).

Killdeer: 2, multiple locations this week. 
AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHER: 1 ad, Pine Point, 8/5; 4, Hill's Beach, Biddeford, 8/7 (with Pat Moynahan).

Whimbrel: 4, The Pool, Biddeford Pool, 8/7 (with Pat Moynahan).

Ruddy Turnstone: 14, Hill's Beach, 8/7 (with Pat Moynahan).

STILT SANDPIPER: 1 ad, Eastern Road Trail, 8/5.

Sanderling: 17, Hill's Beach, 8/7 (with Pat Moynahan).

Least Sandpiper: 75-100, Eastern Road Trail, 8/5.

White-rumped Sandpiper: 31, Eastern Road Trail, 8/5.

Pectoral Sandpiper: 1 (FOF), Popham Beach State Park, 8/3 (with Jeannette) followed by 6, Eastern Road Trail, 8/5.

Semipalmated Sandpiper: 800-1000, Popham Beach State Park, 8/3 (with Jeannette).

Short-billed Dowitcher: 59, The Pool, 8/7 (with Pat Moynahan).

Spotted Sandpiper: 3, Great Pond, Biddeford Pool, 8/7 (with Pat Moynahan).

Solitary Sandpiper: 1, Great Pond, 8/7 (with Pat Moynahan).

Greater Yellowlegs: 16, Eastern Road Trail, 8/5. 

"Eastern" Willet: 28, The Pool, 8/7 (with Pat Moynahan).

Lesser Yellowlegs: 38, Eastern Road Trail, 8/5.

-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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