[Maine-birds] This Week's Highlights and Shorebird High Counts, 8/8-12

Hi all,

Just one non-shorebird of note from an abbreviated week:

- 1 drake Surf Scoter, Reid State Park, Georgetown, 8/9 (photo: https://www.facebook.com/Freeportwildbird/photos/ms.c.eJwzNDQ0MrIwMzQ2MjQ2MTM31jOECVhYGBgaG1vCBUwhAuYA~;hMKAg~-~-.bps.a.977418758954745.1073741840.198877036808925/1112286132134673/?type=1&theater).

 

And my shorebirds high counts over the past week were as follows (no Eastern Road Trail visit):

AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER: 1 ad (first of fall), Pine Point, Scarborough, 8/11 (with Jeannette).

Black-bellied Plover: 106, Pine Point, 8/11 (with Jeannette).

Semipalmated Plover: 400+, Pine Point, 8/11 (with Jeannette).

Killdeer: 1, Popham Beach State Park, Phippsburg, 8/10.

AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHER: 5, Pine Point, 8/11 (with Jeannette).

Greater Yellowlegs: 2, Wharton Point, Brunswick, 8/8 (with Saturday Morning Birdwalk group).

Lesser Yellowlegs: 10, Wharton Point, 8/8 (with Saturday Morning Birdwalk group).

"Eastern" Willet: 14, Pine Point, 8/11 (with Jeannette).

Spotted Sandpiper: 3, Reid State Park, 8/9.

Whimbrel: 4, Pine Point, 8/11 (with Jeannette).

Ruddy Turnstone: 10, Pine Point, 8/11 (with Jeannette).

Sanderling: 8, Popham Beach State Park, 8/10.

Semipalmated Sandpiper: 1800-2000 inc. handful of juveniles, Popham Beach State Park, 8/10.

Least Sandpiper: 10 juveniles, Popham Beach State Park, 8/10.

White-rumped Sandpiper: 6, Popham Beach

Short-billed Dowitcher: 62, including several juveniles, Pine Point, 8/11 (with Jeannette).

-Derek

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Derek and Jeannette Lovitch
Freeport Wild Bird Supply
541 Route One, Suite 10
Freeport, ME 04032
207-865-6000
www.freeportwildbirdsupply.com

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