[Maine-birds] Additional Highlights and Shorebird High Counts this Week, 9/12-18



Hi all,

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

- 8-10 Swainson's Thrushes at Capisic Pond Park and 9 at Evergreen Cemetery, 9/12 (with DownEast Adventures Fall Songbird Workshop group).

- 2 continuing juvenile YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERONS, Great Pond, Biddeford Pool, 9/14.

- 1 Long-tailed Duck, Simpson's Point, Brunswick, 9/16.

- 2 LEACH'S STORM-PETRELS (1 Maine, 1 New Hampshire); 1 POMARINE JAEGER (NH) and 1 PARASITIC JAEGER (NH); RED-NECKED PHALAROPES (MA + NH), etc, etc (see Steve Mirick's post), Granite State Whale Watch Pelagic, Rye NH, 9/17.

- 14 American Pipits (FOF), Mayall Road, Gray/New Gloucester, 9/18.

- 680 Broad-winged Hawks, 6 Sharp-shinned Hawks, 4 Turkey Vultures, 3 Ospreys, 2 American Kestrels, 1 Bald Eagle, 1 Merlin, 1 Cooper's Hawk, and 1 Northern Harrier over the store between 10:20 and 2:05, 9/18.

I had a good week for shorebird diversity and numbers this week, even without a lot of shorebirding, so I'll bring back the Shorebird High Counts list for a cameo appearance: My shorebird high counts this week were as follows:

Killdeer: 27 Mayall Road, Gray/New Gloucester, 9/18.

Black-bellied Plover: 22, Simpson's Point, Brunswick, 9/16.

AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER: 1 juv, Eastern Road Trail, 9/14.

Semipalmated Plover: 110, Eastern Road Trail, Scarborough Marsh, 9/14.

AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHER: 2, Appledore Island, 9/17.

Ruddy Turnstone: 56, Biddeford Pool Beach, Biddeford, 9/14.

Sanderling: 246, Biddeford Pool Beach, 9/14.

Dunlin: 1 molting juvenile (continuing?), Eastern Road Trail, 9/14.

Least Sandpiper: 157, Eastern Road Trail, 9/14.

White-rumped Sandpiper: 6, Eastern Road Trail, 9/14.

Pectoral Sandpiper: 1, Eastern Road Trail, 9/14.

Semipalmated Sandpiper: 407, Eastern Road Trail, 9/14.

Spotted Sandpiper: 2, Eastern Road Trail, 9/14.

Solitary Sandpiper: 1, Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, 9/12 (with DownEast Adventures Fall Songbird Workshop Group).

Lesser Yellowlegs: 1, Eastern Road Trail, 9/14.

Greater Yellowlegs: 4, Simpson's Point, Brunswick, 9/16.

And finally, adding to the options for Fall Pelagic birding trips, we have partnered with Cap'n Fish's Whale Watch in Boothbay Harbor and we have room right now on our 10/12 Mini-pelagic (see second down from the top here: https://www.freeportwildbirdsupply.com/tours-events-and-workshops)

-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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