Dear Birders;
My wife and I just returned from a blissful vacation at York Beach. On the first day, Sept. 1, we found an old friend who apparently has been there all summer: a Glaucous Gull, 2-year old bird(?-others might know more precisely), who has made itself at home on the rocks in our front yard. He was there every day but one. I have photos if anyone would like to see them.
Sept. 1 also gave us a flock of 25 Phalaropes. My guess would be red-necked, but they were too distant to be identified exactly. They were about 250 yards from shore.
Friday the 7th gave us a few shore birds to look at down on Long Sands. The best was a very good close-up view of a Western Sandpiper, like from six feet away. In general, we just haven’t seen shore birds this year like we usually do, and a trip to Plum Island really wasn’t any better.
Glenn
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