With the recent rains creating pools of water in the fields, the shorebirds are returning to western Maine. Today in the Fryeburg Harbor area, Bob Crowley and I had our first pectoral sandpipers (5) of the year. Other shorebirds included solitary sandpipers (9), semi-palmated, least and white-rumped sandpipers, greater and lesser yellowlegs, semi-palmated plovers, killdeer and wilson's snipe. For any who may travel this way on the weekend, the busiest spots were on Harbor Road near Rt 113 and at the intersection of Old River Road and McNeil Road.
A bonus today was five species of swallow - good numbers of barn and tree swallows and small numbers of cliff, bank, and rough-winged swallows.
Joe Scott
Chatham NH
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