[Maine-birds] This Week's Highlights and Shorebird High Counts, 8/13-19.

Hi all,

My observations of note over the past seven days included:

- Presumed TRICOLORED HERON X SNOWY EGRET Hybrid, Pelreco Marsh, 8/14 (with Birds on Tap - Roadtrip! group) and at Jones Creek, 8/15 (with clients from Maine and Connecticut). Photo at: https://mebirdingfieldnotes.wordpress.com/2016/08/17/the-two-shorebirds-and-beer-birds-on-tap-roadtrips-of-2016/.

- 1 female White-winged Scoter, Biddeford Pool Beach, 8/15 (with clients).

- 3 continuing juvenile YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERONS, Great Pond, 8/15 (with clients).

- 1 juvenile FORSTER'S TERN, Fort Popham, Phippsburg, 8/18.

My shorebird high counts over the past week were as follows:

Black-bellied Plover: 173, Wharton Point, Brunswick, 8/19.

Semipalmated Plover: 345, Pine Point, Scarborough, 8/15 (with clients).

Killdeer: 11, Highland Road, Brunswick, 8/19.

Greater Yellowlegs: 12, Wharton Point, 8/19.

Lesser Yellowlegs: 11, Wharton Point, 8/19.

Solitary Sandpiper: 1, Maquoit Bay Conservation Land, Brunswick, 8/19.

"Eastern" Willet: 8, Pine Point, Scarborough,  8/14 (with Birds on Tap - Roadtrip! tour group) and 8/15 (with clients).

Spotted Sandpiper: 3, Eastern Road Trail, Scarborough Marsh, 8/14 (with Birds on Tap - Roadtrip! tour group).

Ruddy Turnstone: 10, off Chebeague Island, 8/16 (with Tom Downing and Jeannette).

Red Knot: 1 juv, Pine Point, 8/15 (with clients).

Sanderling: 35, Popham Beach State Park, Phippsburg, 8/18.

Semipalmated Sandpiper: 500+, Pine Point, 8/15 (with clients).

Least Sandpiper: 75+, Eastern Road Trail, 8/14 (with Birds on Tap - Roadtrip! tour group).

White-rumped Sandpiper: 8, Pine Point, 8/15 (with clients).

BAIRD'S SANDPIPER: 3 juvs, Popham Beach State Park, 8/18 (Video of one at: https://www.facebook.com/Freeportwildbird/videos) and another THREE at Wharton Point, 8/19.

Pectoral Sandpiper: 1 ad, Popham Beach State Park, 8/18.

STILT SANDPIPER: 1 juv, Popham Beach State Park, 8/18.

Short-billed Dowitcher: 47, Wharton Point, 8/19.

-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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