Spurred on by my husband's desire to see a Least Tern, we drove to Popham Beach SP last yesterday afternoon. The tide was very low thanks to the full moon.
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Kristen Lindquist
12 Mount Battie St.
Camden, ME 04843
www.klindquist.blogspot.com
"What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
--Mary Oliver
-- Highlights of our hour-long visit:
LEAST TERN-18 standing around on beach and feeding, several seen carrying little fish from water's edge back to nest
Common Tern-1
PIPING PLOVER-6 standing around on beach,1 sitting on nest
Black-bellied Plover-8 in varying plumages
RED KNOT-1 feeding with Black-bellied Plovers, very pretty in "red" breeding plumage
Semi-palmated Sandpiper-1
Snowy Egret-1
Osprey-1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird-1 in parking lot
Pine Warbler-1 in pines around parking lot
Need to spend more time next visit.
Kristen
Kristen Lindquist
12 Mount Battie St.
Camden, ME 04843
www.klindquist.blogspot.com
"What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
--Mary Oliver
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