[Maine-birds] This Week's Highlights, 6/24-29

Hi all,

With a week spent mostly catching up from being away, my limited birding time yielded the following observations of note:

- 1 White-rumped Sandpiper and 1 Lesser Yellowlegs (first of fall?), Pine Point, Scarborough, 6/26.

- 1 continuing TRICOLORED HERON X SNOWY EGRET HYBRID, 1 continuing TRICOLORED HERON, 1 continuing WHITE-FACED IBIS, and 1 continuing Greater Yellowlegs, Eastern Road Trail, Scarborough Masrh, 6/26.

-1 continuing CHUCK-WILL'S-WIDOW, 3 Eastern Whip-poor-will, 1 Common Nighthawk, 1 American Woodcock, and 2 Barred Owls, Valley Road in Great Pond Mountain Wildlands, Orland, 6/26 (with Terez Fraser, John Lorenc, and Erin Walter).

- 1 drake Common Goldeneye, Wharton Point, Brunswick, 6/28.

- 1 American Bittern, 5 Wilson's Snipe, 1 Merlin, 1 Brown Thrasher, etc, Gilman Pond Road, New Portland, 6/29 (with The Thrushes of Maine Weekend tour group).

-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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