It’s August, so as usual, shorebirds were the focus. Here are my observations of note over the past seven days.

• 1 Surf Scoter, off Sisters Island, Casco Bay, 7/31 (with Birds of Casco Bay Tour group).

• 1 Fish Crow continues, Point Sebago Resort (private), 8/4 (with Point Sebago Birdwalk group).

• 1 Red Crossbill, our yard in Pownal, 8/5.

• 1 continuing molting adult BLACK TERN, Pine Point, Scarborough, 8/5.

Shorebird high counts this week:

• Black-bellied Plover: 39, Pine Point, Scarborough, 8/5.
• Killdeer: 24, Mayall Rd, Gray/New Gloucester, 8/4.
• Semipalmated Plover: 389, Pine Point, 8/5.
• Piping Plover: 14, Popham Beach State Park, Phippsburg, 8/2.
• Whimbrel: 3, Pine Point, 8/5.
• Ruddy Turnstone: 2, Pine Point, 8/5.
• Sanderling: 16, Popham Beach State Park, 8/2.
• Least Sandpiper: 65+, Eastern Road Trail, Scarborough Marsh, 8/5.
• White-rumped Sandpiper: 9, Eastern Road Trail, 8/5.
• Pectoral Sandpiper: 1-2, Eastern Road Trail, 8/5.
• Semipalmated Sandpiper: 240+, Popham Beach State Park, 8/2.
• Short-billed Dowitcher: 13, Pine Point, 8/5.
• Spotted Sandpiper: 2, Sebago Lake State Park, 8/4.
• Lesser Yellowlegs: 26, Rte 1/9 salt pannes south, Scarborough Marsh, 8/5.
• “Eastern” Willet: 14, Pine Point, 8/5.
• Greater Yellowlegs: 9, Eastern Road Trail, 8/5.