It was an enjoyable afternoon on the South Lubec Sand Flats. Numbers weren’t overwhelming, but variety was good. I’d estimate about 50 black-bellied plovers and one golden plover. There were two short-billed dowitchers. I despaired of counting the smaller peeps because a peregrine kept buzzing the flock and they never settled long enough for a good estimate, nor a good chance to find Baird’s or white-rumped. But we did enjoy a piping plover, only the second I’ve ever seen at this location. And there was one snoozing dunlin just as we arrived.
And, a side trip onto Campobello revealed that Bonaparte’s gulls and kittiwakes have finally started to move into the channel in big numbers. They’re very late this year.
Bob Duchesne
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