Checked the pannes on the eastern trail (at high tide) today to see what was still hanging out. A female Merlin was repeatedly strafing the shorebirds and a juvenile Northern Harrier occasionally flushed them as well, so they were mostly hiding amongst the tufts of grass. Very few egrets compared to last week, no Little Blue or Tricolored Herons. A few Pectoral Sandpipers, 2 or 3 Stilt Sandpipers, 1 Killdeer, 1 Semipalmated Plover and 2 Short-billed Dowitcher, among the dozens of Lesser and Greater Yellowlegs, Semiplamated and Least Sandpipers.
The Tree Swallow numbers are building up again, after many of them appeared to head out the last few days with the favorable winds. Several hundred were in evidence today over the marsh, with 100+ all fighting for perching spaces on a single scraggly dead tree.
Good Birding
David Rankin
Biddeford, ME
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