The Aroostook Birders spent the morning birding around the many parks and trails in Fort Kent this AM. We ran into bucketloads of juvenile birds but nothing much that wasn't expected.
-- An adult Common Loon in the swift and shallow water of the St. John River was a bit unusual and a close encounter with a Northern Waterthrush family was fun.
Swallows and Yellow Warblers have thinned out substantially here in the past week.
On the way home, I detoured over to Long Lake at St. Agatha and checked on the Common Tern colony there. There were plenty of Common Terns feeding young and lots of gaping Double-crested Cormorants on the island, but the highlight was a pair of Ruddy Turnstones poking around on the islet.
This was only the third time I've seen turnstones here in northern Maine and the earliest "fall" record of which I'm aware.
A female-type Red-breasted Merganser snoozing on the island was also noteworthy for this time of year and location. I've been hoping to find evidence of this species breeding in northern Maine for years, but I saw nothing that looked like young mergs here today.
Fans of bad photos of turnstones and cormorants can savor those embedded in the list here:
Cheers
Bill
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