Spent my lunch hour checking the goose flocks at Hanson Lake in Presque Isle/Mapleton, Lake Josephine in Easton and Christina Reservoir in Fort Fairfield. None of the Canada Geese had morphed into other species overnight...
-- Hanson Lake held a few hundred Canada Geese. A juvenile White-winged Scoter was hanging out with them.
Over in Easton, there were more Lesser Scaup in Lake Jo today and a group of 9 Black Scoters were new arrivals here.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/71911844@N04/22517971212/in/datetaken-public/
At Christina Reservoir, an orange-clad hunter/trapper on the north shore bumped out most of the geese and mergansers just as I arrived. A couple Red-necked Grebes stuck around though. I also had a juvenile Black-bellied Plover and a partially-molted adult White-rumped Sandpiper that was looking pretty beat up. Both birds were quite late lingerers. The plover was my latest ever in northern Maine and though White-rumped Sandpiper juveniles are practically expected right now, adults have usually pushed through by early September.
My eBird list has digiscopes of the shorebirds:
Had a report of an Eastern Towhee today. More on that later hopefully!
Good Birding,
Bill
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