Hello All, I met Dick Belanger on County Road 51 in Eastport around 8:30 this morning. He and Mary Laura Lamont had spotted a White rumped Sandpiper some minutes past on the biggest field east of the roadbed. For the next hour Dick and I searched the wandering flocks numbering close to 200 birds and came up with a second White rumped, a Baird's and a single American Golden Plover. The multitude were scared up twice. Once by a Sharp shinned Hawk and later by a not too interested Merlin. They're were also a few Least Sandpipers and Semipalmated Plovers among the much more numerous Black Bellies and Killdeers. Over west at the smaller field by Eastport Manorville Road there was zilch. Good September Birding, Carl Starace
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