Friday, 2 September 2016

[Maine-birds] Southern Maine sightings (Aug 31 - Sep 2)...

Here are some bird happenings from around York and Cumberland Counties:

8/31 (Wednesday)
...4 Piping Plovers, 12+ Red Knots, and 1 Buff-breasted Sandpiper at the Basket Island Causeway, Hills Beach, Biddeford (http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S31343972)
...3 Whimbrels and 1 Marbled Godwit at the edge of "the pool" near Sky Harbor Dr., Biddeford (http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S31344169)

9/1 (Thursday)
...Eastern Whip-poor-will singing just before sunrise along Guinea Rd., Kennebunkport
...3 Piping Plovers and 7 Least Terns lingering at Goose Rocks Beach, K'port (http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S31357418)
...in the morning: 1 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron and 1 Marbled Godwit at the edge of "the pool" near Sky Harbor Drive, Biddeford (http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S31357258)
...in the afternoon: 1 Marbled Godwit, 11 Red Knots, 1 Merlin, and 6 gull species, including 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull (FOY), at the Basket Island Causeway, Hills Beach, Biddeford (http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S31362818)

9/2 (Friday)
...10 species of shorebirds, 1 Northern Harrier, 1 Merlin, and 3 Marsh Wrens at the Sanford Lagoons (http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S31376078)
...2 American Golden-Plovers (FOY) near Bayley's Lobster Pound, Pine Point, Scarborough (http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S31379812)
...4 American Oystercatchers (2 juveniles with parents) and 1 Peregrine Falcon at the Basket Island Causeway, Hills Beach, Biddeford (http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S31379631)

Wildly,
Josh

P.S. If anyone in southern Maine bumps into a Stilt Sandpiper, please let me know!

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