[Maine-birds] This Week's Highlights and New Arrivals, 5/4-10

Hi all,

Just a few observations of note from me in the past seven days included:

- 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Florida Lake Park, Freeport, 5/6 (with clients).  My second of the season here (3rd all-time).

- 6-8+ (!) Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, Fort Foster, Kittery, 5/7.  Although a pair has bred here for at least the last few years, there were at least three, but I believe 4, and perhaps as many as 5 pairs of birds active here today.

- 14 Purple Sandpipers, Seapoint Beach, Kittery, 5/7.

- 13 species of warblers (my first single-site double-digit tally of the year), led by 60+ Yellow-rumps and 7 Common Yellowthroats, Florida Lake Park, Freeport, 5/10 (with Katrina Fenton). Zane Baker added a Magnolia Warbler and Dan  Nickerson added 1 American Redstart to the collective tally.

 

And my personal "FOY's" this week - greatly reduced by an "Omega Block" that kept a high pressure system locked in place overhead and a series of storms to our south, limiting the flow of migrants for the past 12 days (until last night!)- included:

- Sora: 1, Great Salt Bay Farm, Damariscotta, 5/5 (with Kristen Lindquist).

- Nashville Warbler: 1, Florida Lake Park, 5/6 (with clients).

- Least Flycatcher: 2, Capisic Pond Park, Portland, 5/6 (with clients).

- Warbling Vireo: 2, Capisic Pond Park, 5/6 (with clients).

- Marsh Wren: 1, Pelreco marsh, Scarborough Marsh, 5/6 (with clients).

- Gray Catbird: 1 (first of spring), Fort Foster, 5/7.

- Blackburnian Warbler: 1, Bradbury Mountain Hawkwatch, 5/7.

- Chestnut-sided Warbler: 1, Florida Lake Park, 5/10 (with Katrina Fenton).

- Solitary Sandpiper: 2, Florida Lake Park, 5/10 (with Katrina Fenton).

- Rose-breasted Grosbeak: 1, Florida Lake Park, 5/10 (with Katrina Fenton).

- Blackpoll Warbler: 1, Florida Lake Park, 5/10 (with Katrina Fenton).

- Eastern Kingbird: 1, Florida Lake Park, 5/10 (with Katrina Fenton).

 

Here are my phone-scoped photos of the Northern Lapwing from Poland on Monday evening:

 http://www.facebook.com/Freeportwildbird?ref=hl#!/media/set/?set=a.617075551655736.1073741829.198877036808925&type=1

 

-Derek

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