This Week's Highlights and Shorebird High Counts, 8/11-17.

[Derek and Jeannette Lovitch]

My observations of note over the past seven days included:

- 3 Cory's Shearwaters, 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull, etc, Hardy Boat from Monhegan to New Harbor, 8/12 (with Marion Sprague).

- 8 Fish Crows, Pine Point, Scarborugh, 8/13 (with Jeannette).

- 2 adult Red-necked Grebes, Ocean Avenue, Biddeford Pool, 8/14 (with Jeannette). Still present on 8/16 (with clients from TX/CT).

- 1 GIANT SWALLOWTAIL butterfly, Biddeford Pool neighborhood, 8/14 (I believe this is my first in Maine; with Jeannette). 

- 1 very early female BUFFLEHEAD and 1 Blue-winged Teal (FOF), Sanford Lagoons, 8/16 (with clients from TX/CT).

- 1 continuing TRICOLORED HERON and 1 probable WHITE-FACED IBIS (hard to confidently rule out a hybrid in this non-breeding plumage), Eastern Road Trail, Scarborough Marsh, 8/16 (with clients).

- 1 DICKCISSEL (FOF), Old Town House Park, North Yarmouth, 8/17.

And my shorebird high counts this week were as follows:

Black-bellied Plover: 106, Pine Point, Scarborough, 8/13 (with Jeannette).

Semipalmated Plover: 238, Hill's Beach, Biddeford, 8/14 (with Jeannette).

Piping Plover: 6, Hill's Beach, 8/14 (with Jeannette). 5 still present on 8/16 (with clients from TX/CT).

Killdeer: 17, Mayall Road, Gray/New Gloucester, 8/14 (with Jeannette).

AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHER: 6, Pine Point, Scarborough, 8/13 (with Jeannette). 

Spotted Sandpiper: 3, Ocean Avenue, Biddeford Pool, 8/14 (with Jeannette) and 8/16 (with clients).

Solitary Sandpiper: 1, Royal River Park, Yarmouth, 8/11 (with Saturday Morning Birdwalk group).

Greater Yellowlegs: 34, Pine Point, 8/13 (with Jeannette).

"Eastern" Willet: 9, Pine Point, 8/13 (with Jeannette).

Lesser Yellowlegs: 7, Eastern Road Trail, Scarborough Marsh, 8/13 (with Jeannette).

UPLAND SANDPIPER: 1, flyover at the store at 6:10pm on 8/25 (with Jeannette). A most unexpected yard bird (#123)!

Whimbrel: 1, Pine Point, 8/13 (with Jeannette) and Hill's Beach, 8/16 (with clients)

Ruddy Turnstone: 57, Biddeford Pool Beach, Biddeford, 8/14 (with Jeannette). 

RED KNOT (FOF): 2, Hill's Beach, 8/14 (with Jeannette).

Sanderling: 51, Biddeford Pool Beach, 8/14 (with Jeannette).

Semipalmated Sandpiper: 1800, Biddeford Pool Beach, 8/14.

Least Sandpiper: 19, Eastern Road Trail, 8/13 (with Jeannette).

White-rumped Sandpiper: 15, Biddeford Pool Beach, 8/14 (with Jeannette).

Pectoral Sandpiper (FOF): 1, Hill's Beach, 8/14 (with Jeannette).

Short-billed Dowitcher: ~60, Hill's Beach, 8/16 (with clients).

RED-NECKED PHALAROPE (FOY): 18, Hardy Boat from New Harbor to Monhegan, 8/12 (with Marion Sprague).

-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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