Re: [Maine-birds] massive morning flight, Biddeford Pool, Thur 30 May

I guessed wrong this morning, and hit the interior...the New Gloucester area Intervale Marshes.  Actually, I felt the singing might have been impeded by the early heat.  A group of nine Com Nighthawks was my highlight.

I was assuming tonight was going to produce something big, so am camping at Hermit Island, hoping for bedlam tomorrow morning.  Now I'm curious about the lower Phippsburg Peninsula THIS morning.  Anybody witness to a big movement? 

On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Chuck Homler <needsmoreritalin@gmail.com> wrote:

I was fortunate enough to bump into Marshall this AM as I checked on the plovers before work.

Three Piping plovers.  4 eggs on the nest.  Many semipalmated sandpipers and about a dozen bb plovers.

When I got to the car 2 Green Herons flew over and that's when I said Hi to Marshall.  He pointed out a Mourning Warbler, Empid, and a GC flycatcher.

Chuck

Sent from my iPhone... So please forgive typographical errors, message brevity and any strange word choices my phone decides were better than what I actually typed.

On May 30, 2013, at 1:04 PM, Louis Bevier <lrbevier@colby.edu> wrote:

> Figuring the morning fog might lead to a good flight along the coast, Marshall Iliff found 5000+ landbirds passing over Biddeford Pool this morning. He only caught part of the flight; so many more were missed. Most birds were seen from the boat ramp area that lies on the Biddeford Pool side across from Hills Beach, but the flight extend south of there too. Most birds seemed to concentrate along the north shore of the point, however.
>
> 15 Mourning Warblers
> double digit Canada and Wilson's Warblers
> 1000+ Redstarts and Magnolia Warblers (those are the easy ones to ID in flight and so get #s)
> 20+ Yellow-bellied Flycatchers among 100+ Empidonax flycatchers
>
> Marshall will likely have an eBird list available later today or tonight that will give the numbers.
>
> Louis Bevier
> Fairfield
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