[Maine-birds] Scarborough Marsh, 7/8 (FOTE, REKN, AMOY, shorebirds).

Hi all,

Pat Moynahan spent the first half of today in and around Scarborough Marsh, yielding the following highlights:

- 1 adult, breeding plumaged FORSTER'S TERN, Pine Point Co-op (early).

- 1 continuing adult RED KNOT, off Pine Point Co-op.

- 1 American Oystercatcher, Western Beach

Increasing numbers of southbound migrant shorebirds included high counts of 48 Short-billed Dowitchers, 29 Black-bellied Plovers, 3 Greater Yellowlegs, and 1 Ruddy Turnstone at Pine Point co-op; 6+ Piping Plovers at Western Beach; and along the Eastern Road Trail,  40+ Least Sandpipers, 3 Lesser Yellowlegs, etc.

-Derek

 

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 Derek and Jeannette Lovitch

 Freeport Wild Bird Supply

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 Freeport, ME 04032

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