Additional Highlights and shorebird High Counts This Week, 9/1-9/7
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Derek and Jeannette Lovitch
Sep 7, 2018, 8:35:35 PM9/7/18
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Hi all,
Some additional sightings of note away from Sandy Point for me this week:
- 1 continuing pair SANDHILL CRANES, Mayall Road, Gray/New Gloucester, 9/1 (with Saturday Morning Birdwalk group).
- 35 Common Nighthawks, over our yard in Pownal, 9/4 (with Jeannette).
- 1 continuing presumed TRICOLORED HERON x SNOWY EGRET hybrid, Eastern Road Trail, Scarborough Marsh, 9/6.
- 1 continuing LITTLE EGRET, Rte 1/9 salt pannes, Scarborough Marsh, 9/6.
And my shorebird high counts this week were as follows (limited by the lack of a beach/oceanside mudflat visit this week):
Black-bellied Plover: 29, Wharton Point, Brunswick, 9/7.
Semipalmated Plover: 93, Eastern Road Trail, Scarborough Marsh, 9/6.
Killdeer: 32, Mayall Road, Gray/New Gloucester, 9/1 (with Saturday Morning Birdwalk group).
Solitary Sandpiper: 1, Old Town House Park, North Yarmouth, 9/7 (with Piet and Stacey Bridge).
Greater Yellowlegs: 60+, Eastern Road Trail, Scarborough Marsh, 9/6.
Lesser Yellowlegs: 51+, Eastern Road Trail, 9/6.
Semipalmated Sandpiper: 670, Eastern Road Trail, 9/6.
Least Sandpiper: 225, Eastern Road Trail, 9/6.
White-rumped Sandpiper: 29, Eastern Road Trail, 9/6.
BAIRD'S SANDPIPER: 1 juv, Eastern Road Trail, 9/6.
Pectoral Sandpiper: 4, Eastern Road Trail, 9/6.
STILT SANDPIPER (FOY): 4 juv, Eastern Road Trail, 9/6.
Short-billed Dowitcher: 4, Eastern Road Trail, 9/6.
LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER (FOY): Eastern Road Trail, 9/6.
And Jeannette's photos from our trip last week to Washington County, including that first summer Purple Sandpiper from Head Harbor Passage, can be viewed here:
-Derek
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Derek and Jeannette Lovitch
Freeport Wild Bird Supply
541 Route One, Suite 10
Freeport, ME 04032
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