[Maine-birds] BLACK SKIMMER, Sandy Point Morning Flight, 10/4

Hi all,

A light flight over and through Sandy Point Beach, Cousin's Island, Yarmouth today was punctuated by a BLACK SKIMMER!  I heard the bird calling to the north of the bridge, and eventually found it as it alighted on a small sandbar.  As the tide inundated the bar, it took off and began foraging, last seen heading north, up the bay. 

 

A distant photo is here: http://mebirdingfieldnotes.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/black-skimmer-at-sandy-point/

 

- 6:38-8:20
- 46F, partly cloudy, calm.

 

41 Yellow-rumped Warblers
31 Palm Warblers
31 Unidentified
24 Ruby-crowned Kinglets
13 Blackpoll Warblers
12 Northern Parulas
10 Green-winged Teal
9 Golden-crowned Kinglets
6 Blue Jays
6 Black-throated Green Warblers
5 Dark-eyed Juncos
4 American Robins
4 Nashville Warblers
4 Black-throated Blue Warblers
4 Chipping Sparrows
4 White-throated Sparrows
3 Common Loons
2 Blue-headed Vireos
1 Great Blue Heron
1 Osprey
1 BLACK SKIMMER
1 Northern Flicker
1 Red-eyed Vireo
1 White-breasted Nuthatch
1 American Pipit
1 Cedar Waxwing
1 Magnolia Warbler
1 Common Yellowthroat
1 Savannah Sparrow
1 DICKCISSEL (5^th of season here)
1 American Goldfinch

 

Total = 226

 

-Derek

 

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