[Maine-birds] Popham Beach - Aug 20

The Baird's Sandpiper (reported yesterday) continues to stroll along the High Tide line, fairly confiding and unconcerned by beachwalkers.

After gently admonishing two kids about disturbing the loafing shorebirds,  (by suggesting that their parents would be fined and they would be put in stocks and subjected to public humiliation), I noted that the flocks down there tend to move very little after being subjected to "human disturbance". 

But a marauding Peregrine Falcon made several strafing runs this morning and fully 2+ thousand birds gave flight, after swirling around in huge ball-shaped flocks, and then vanished, totally abandoning Popham Beach.  More than likely headed out to offshore rocks and islands, where they will now safely spend periods of High Slack.

Until the Peregrine figures it out.  

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