[Maine-birds] American Oystercatchers at Vines Landing - Biddeford

I spent an hour and a half birding around Biddeford Pool on Sunday afternoon from 4:45 - 6:00.

I started at Vines Landing where I saw the following:

Highlights include:

Near Vines Landing:

• 2 American Oystercatchers resting on rocks at low tide off Stage Island (large and stocky; yellow eyes and long, thick , red bill)
• a Bald Eagle flying east past the marker on Stage Island
• 5 Common Loons in various stages of plumage
• 38 Common Eider
• 3 Red-Breasted Mergansers (1 male, 2 female)

Near the pond at Marie Joseph:

• Merlin flying across the road from the pond by the Marie Joseph spiritual center
• Black-Crowned Night Heron on the shore next to South Point sanctuary 
• 2 Canada geese
• 1 Mallard (male)

Off Ocean Ave:

• Black Guillemot off of the point on Ocean Ave. (plumage in transition)
• 1 female Common Goldeneye
• 7 Long-Tail Ducks
• 27 Common Eider

Many Common Grackles and Red Winged Blackbirds

Time well spent.

Jon Edstrom

Biddeford