When I saw 2 Ospreys hover-hunting over the field where the Buffalo Roam, I should have known conditions weren't quite right for shorebirds here. I suppose you could say that the lower field is "out of its banks", with water spilling over the roadway. Traffic cones indicate the road was impassable yesterday.
But interestingly, a small colony of Marsh Wrens are pretty well established in the bushes (not reeds or cat-tails) between what are now two very large lakes.
I car-birded the perimeter of Merrymeeting Bay this morning, checking flooded fields for shorebirds. Nada! Zero! Not even a Killdeer. I was particularly interested in "Lake Fairwinds" on Brown Point Road in Bowdoinham, a spot that traps more than a few rare birds. Zip!
When and if the Big Drain sets in, these fields should yield some good birds.
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