In addition to the Sandy Point Morning Flight tallies posted to our store’s Facebook page – and elsewhere, my observations of note over the past seven days also included the following:

• 1 adult Lesser Black-backed Gull, Pine Point, Scarborough, 8/29.

• 1 Mourning Warbler, Essex Marsh, Bangor, 8/30 (with Jeannette).

• 8 SPRUCE GROUSE, 1 Evening Grosbeak, etc, Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument Loop Road, 8/30 (with Jeannette). Photo above.

• 1 Mourning Warbler, Barnard Mountain Trail, Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument, 8/31 (with Jeannette).

• 1 proposed TRICOLORED HERON X SNOWY EGRET X SNOWY EGRET HYBRID, Eastern Road Trail, Scarborough Marsh, 9/3.

Although I didn’t hit many shorebird sites this week (since we were in the north woods on our days off), I had a few excellent counts of several species:

• American Oystercatcher: 4 continuing (2 ad with 2 juv), Pine Point, Scarborough, 8/29.
• Black-bellied Plover: 87, Pine Point, 8/29.
• Killdeer: 53, Mayall Road, Gray/New Gloucester, 9/2.
• Semipalmated Plover: 204, Pine Point, 8/29.
• Sanderling: 2, Pine Point, 8/29.
• Least Sandpiper: 34, Eastern Road Trail, Scarborough Marsh, 9/3.
• White-rumped Sandpiper: 2, Pine Point, 8/29.
• BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER: 1 juv, Pine Point, 8/29.
• Semipalmated Sandpiper: 425, Pine Point, 8/29.
• Short-billed Dowitcher: 14, Pine Point, 8/29.
• Solitary Sandpiper: 1, single solitaries at several sites.
• Lesser Yellowlegs: 132, Yarmouth Town Landing, 9/2 – highest count I have had anywhere locally in several years.
• “Eastern” Willet: 8, Pine Point, 8/29.
• Greater Yellowlegs: 11, Eastern Road Trail, 9/3.