[Maine-birds] Additional Highlights This Week and Shorebird High Counts, 8/31-9/6.

Hi all,

 

Just a few additional sightings of note from me over the past seven days included:

- 1 intriguing medium-gray mantled, European Herring-like gull, Popham Beach State Park, Phippsburg, 9/1 (with Phil McCormack).  Photos at link below.

- 1 White-winged Scoter, Biddeford Pool Beach and 3 at Fortunes Rocks Beach, 9/2 (with Paul Doiron, Kristen Lindquist, and Jeannette).

- 2 adult SANDHILL CRANES, Mayall Road, Gray/New Gloucester, 9/3 (with Jeannette).  Photos at link below.   

- 1 continuing Tricolored Heron, Eastern Road Trail, Scarborough Marsh, 9/6 (with Dan Nickerson).

- 2 Blue-winged Teal, Eastern Road Trail, 9/6 (with Dan Nickerson). 

 

My shorebird high counts this week:

Black-bellied Plover: 41 - Wharton Point, Brunswick, 9/1 (with Phil McCormack).

Semipalmated Plover: 127 - Popham Beach, 9/1 (with Phil McCormack).

Piping Plover: 1 juv - Popham Beach, 9/1 (with Phil McCormack).

Killdeer: 35 - Greely Road, Cumberland, 9/5.

Greater Yellowlegs: 12 - Eastern Road Trail, 9/6 (with Dan Nickerson).

Lesser Yellowlegs: 28 - Eastern Road Trail, 9/6 (with Dan Nickerson).

Solitary Sandpiper: 2 - Greely Road, 9/5.

Spotted Sandpiper: 10 - Ocean Avenue, Biddeford Pool, 9/2 (with Paul Doiron, Kristen Lindquist, and Jeannette).

Whimbrel: 2 juv - Popham Beach, 9/1 (with Phil McCormack).

Ruddy Turnstone: 18 - Ocean Avenue, 9/2 (with Paul Doiron, Kristen Lindquist, and Jeannette)

Red Knot: 1 juv -  Popham Beach, 9/1 (with Phil McCormack).

Sanderling: 46 - Popham Beach, 9/1 (with Phil McCormack).

Semipalmated Sandpiper: 480 - Popham Beach, 9/1 (with Phil McCormack).

Least Sandpiper: 50 - Eastern Road Trail, 9/6 (with Dan Nickerson).

White-rumped Sandpiper: 16 - Eastern Road Trail, 9/6 (with Dan Nickerson).

Dunlin: 1 juv - Popham Beach, 9/1 (with Phil McCormack) and 1 juv - Eastern Road Trail, 9/6 (with Dan Nickerson).

STILT SANDPIPER: 6 juv/1st winter - Eastern Road Trail, 9/6 (with Dan Nickerson).

Short-billed Dowitcher: 5 - Eastern Road Trail, 9/6 (with Dan Nickerson).

Wilson's Snipe: 1 - Eastern Road Trail, 9/6 (with Dan Nickerson).

 

Photos of the mystery gull at Popham (for what they are worth, and a little additional explanation) and the Sandhill Cranes can be found here (scroll to end):

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.561795817183710.139561.198877036808925&type=3

 

-Derek

 

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