Monday, 23 March 2015

Re: [Maine-birds] Surfbird at Biddeford Pool

As of 4:30 Sunday afternoon the bird was still at the location Peter mentioned.  A couple other micro-directions to add to Peter's comments -
 
This location would be roughly half-way between Orcutt Blvd and the eastern tip of the peninsula.  And among the shrubs adjacent to the left hand (north) side of the trail Peter mentioned there is one lone short scrubby pine tree that was roughly even with the rocks where the flock was feeding.  At times the Surfbird was out of view as it maneuvered around the rocks, so getting to a different viewing angle was helpful.
 
This was my New England total tick number #1,997 (the sum of my statelists for the 6 New England states).  Three more to 2,000.
 
Hat's off to the folks who found this bird on Saturday!
 
Mike Resch
Pepperell, MA
 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Vickery <crescentchest@gmail.com>
To: Maine Birds <maine-birds@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Sun, Mar 22, 2015 3:33 pm
Subject: [Maine-birds] Surfbird at Biddeford Pool

Just to be clear, the Surfbird and Ruddy Turnstones are approx 100 yards beyond  the golf course.  As one walks towards Eastern Point there are shrubs on both  sides of the trail.  The shrubs then disappear on the right side and when I left  they shorebirds were roosting on a rock along the shoreline.  It's my sense that  this flock has not been seen at the point so I'd start looking carefully as the  shrubs disappear.    Wicked cool bird.  Thanks to Chris Lewey and group for the  discovery.    Best,  Peter    --   Maine birds mailing  list  maine-birds@googlegroups.com  http://groups.google.com/group/maine-birds  https://sites.google.com/site/birding207  ---    You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups  "Maine birds" group.  To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails  from it, send an email to maine-birds+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.  For more  options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.  

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