Sunday, 16 September 2012

[Maine-birds] Re: Weskeag

Hi Bruce,

It was nice to meet you today at Weskeag!  We had a great time birding along the coast today and totaled up about 40 species.  Its great getting to know a new bird community up here in Maine.  Highlights for me included the stilts (not the stilts I know from AZ!) and the pectorals, that hungry merlin you mentioned, plus surf scoters and black bellied plovers at Birch Point Beach. Thank you for a lovely introduction to Maine birding.

Best,
Christine Lamanna
Old Town, ME  



On Sunday, September 16, 2012 2:48:03 PM UTC-4, BAB wrote:
Last two mornings there has been a sprinkling of shorebirds at the front ponds at Weskeag.  Yesterday 6 or 7 pectorals, 3 stilts, a blue-winged among the teal/black ducks.  Today more of the same, joined by 3 white-rumps, a harrier, and a merlin putting on quite a show as it missed breakfast.  Both yellowlegs present, semi-palmated and least sandpipers.  No dowitchers and no phalarope. 

Cheers,
bab

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