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As a service to local and visiting birders, The Freeport Wild Bird Supply provides a weekly update about interesting bird sightings in the area. With a focus on rarities in York, Cumberland, and Sagadahoc Counties, the South Coastal Maine Rare Bird Alert will provide timely, accurate, and detailed information for all birders. You can email your sightings to birds@yarmouthbirds.com. August 16, 2007 Click on the date to view the rare bird alert. August 9, 2007 Click on the date to view the rare bird alert. August 2, 2007 Click on the date to view the rare bird alert. July 22, 2007 Click on the date to view the rare bird alert. July 19, 2007 Click on the date to view the rare bird alert. July 12, 2007 Click on the date to view the rare bird alert. July 5, 2007 Click on the date to view the rare bird alert. June 28, 2007 Click on the date to view the rare bird alert. June 21, 2007 Click on the date to view the rare bird alert. June 14, 2007 Click on the date to view the rare bird alert. 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September 23, 2005 Click on the date to view the rare bird alert. September 15, 2005 Click on the date to view the rare bird alert. September 8, 2005 - RBA * Maine * Southcoastal * September 8, 2005 * MESC0509.08 - Species Mentioned: Red-necked Grebe Cory’s Shearwater Greater Shearwater Manx Shearwater Wilson’s Storm-Petrel American Bittern Black-bellied Plover American Golden Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHER Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Willet Spotted Sandpiper Whimbrel Ruddy Turnstone Red Knot Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper WESTERN SANDPIPER Least Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Baird’s Sandpiper Dunlin Short-billed Dowitcher Red Phalarope Parasitic Jaeger Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Yellow-throated Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-breasted Nuthatch BLUE-WINGED WARBLER Pine Warbler Prairie Warbler Mourning Warbler YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT Purple Finch - Transcript: Hotline: Southcoastal Maine Rare Bird Alert (Internet Only). Date: September 8, 2005 compiled at: 5:00pm. To report: (207) 846-8002, or birds@yarmouthbirds.com. Coverage: York, Cumberland, and Sagadahoc Counties. This is Derek Lovitch welcoming you to the Southcoastal Maine Rare Bird Alert, sponsored by the Wild Bird Center of Yarmouth at 500 Route One, Yarmouth, Maine. All locations not found in A Birder’s Guide to Maine by Pierson, et al. are referenced to the Delorme Maine Atlas. Transcripts of current and past messages can be found at www.yarmouthbirds.com. This alert was updated on Thursday, September 8, 2005 with highlights that include: a YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, continuing AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHERS, a couple of WESTERN SANDPIPERS, and an increase in passerine migration. In contrast to last week, this week was delightfully uneventful weather-wise. Other than weak, dry cold fronts on Friday and Saturday nights, high pressure remained in control through the end of the week. A few scattered thunderstorms on Sunday provided the only precipitation this week. Temperature remained near, or above, normal for highs, with very cool, and often slightly below normal nights as temperatures in some place fell to the upper 40’s. The fair weather provided excellent flying conditions for shorebirds to vacate –and most shorebird counts were down, and for passerines to move through. A whale watch trip out of Portland that looped out to Tannin’s Ledge on 9/5 produced 1 CORY’S SHEARWATERS, 9 GREATER SHEARWATERS, 1 MANX SHEARWATER, and 4 WILSON’S STORM PETRELS. Birders aboard this boat were also treated to views of a subadult light morph PARASITIC JAEGER chasing and eventually catching a female PURPLE FINCH who found herself about 3 miles offshore. The first two RED-NECKED GREBES of fall were spotted off Biddeford Pool Beach on 9/7. One AMERICAN BITTERN was seen from Eastern Road in Scarborough Marsh on 9/6. One AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER was seen on Hill’s Beach in Biddeford 9/4-6. 3 AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHERS were feeding on Western Beach in Scarborough (Delorme Map 3: B-4) on 9/8. Single juvenile RED KNOTS were at Popham Beach State Park in Phippsburg on the 4th and on Hill’s Beach in Biddeford the next day, while three were on Ferry Beach in Scarborough (Delorme Map 3: B-4) on 9/8. One juvenile BAIRD’S SANDPIPER was on the beach just south of the Old Orchard Beach/Scarborough town lines (Delorme Map 3: B-3) on the 3rd, one juvenile was at the north end of Biddeford Pool Beach on 9/3, while two were there on 9/5. Another Baird’s was at Popham Beach State Park in Phippsburg on the 4th, and one was along Jones Creek in Scarborough Marsh on the 8th. A WESTERN SANDPIPER arrived at the north end of Biddeford Pool Beach on the 1st, with another or the same bird there on the 5th. Meanwhile, 3-4 Westerns were found at Popham Beach State Park on the 4th. The first DUNLIN arrived on Pine Point Beach on 9/3. A lone RED PHALAROPE was seen from a Portland whale watch trip on 9/5. High counts of other shorebirds this week included: 60 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS (Hill’s Beach, Biddeford, 9/4); 80 SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS (Popham Beach State Park, 9/4); 41 KILLDEER (Mayhall Road sod farms, Gray, 9/7); 13 GREATER YELLOWLEGS (Reid Beach State Park, Georgetown, 9/5); 13 LESSER YELLOWLEGS (Jones Creek, Scarborough Marsh, 9/8); 2 WILLETS (Reid Beach State Park, 9/5); 1 SPOTTED SANDPIPER (Winslow Park, Freeport, 9/2); 11 WHIMBREL (Wells Reserve at Laudholm Farms, 9/8); 2 RUDDY TURNSTONES (Hill’s Beach, Biddeford, 9/5); 300 SANDERLINGS (Pine Point/Old Orchard Beach, 9/8); 800 SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS (Popham Beach State Park, 9/4); 40+ LEAST SANDPIPERS (Popham Beach State Park, 9/4); 2-3 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS (Pine Point /Old Orchard Beaches, 9/3); and 5 SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS (Hill’s Beach, Biddeford, 9/4). A YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER was in a Falmouth yard on the 4th, while 21 EASTERN PHOEBES tallied at Pineland Center in New Gloucester (Delorme Map 5: C-4) on the 7th was a very good count of this common, but rarely concentrated, species. A YELLOW-THROATED VIREO was banded on Appledore Island (Delorme Map 1: D-5) on 9/2 and a PHILADELPHIA VIREO visited a Falmouth yard on the 4th and 5th. RED-BREASTED NUTHATCHES seem especially common in the area right now, and migrants were noted at a number of locations, included 2 that tried to land on a whale watching boat out of Portland on the 5th. The pleasant weather was welcome by migrant warblers, who could be heard passing overhead each night this week. However, with little to ground them, few concentrations were noted. Exceptions included 17 species in a Falmouth yard on the 4th, and 10 species – including a good tally of 20+ PINE along with one PRAIRIE WARBLER – were at Pineland Center on the 7th. An impressive 5 YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT were banded in 6 days on Appledore Island this week, along with BLUE-WINGED and MOURNING WARBLERS, for a total of 22 warbler species netted. PURPLE FINCHES also seem to be on the move, as exemplified by 25 banded in three days on Appledore Island this week. NOTE: A blog about birding in Maine can now be found at: http://outdoors.mainetoday.com/naturewatching/fieldnotes/. Check it out! - End transcript September 1, 2005 Click on the date to view the rare bird alert. August 25, 2005 Click on the date to view the rare bird alert. August 18, 2005 Click on the date to view the rare bird alert. August 11, 2005 Click on the date to view the rare bird alert. August 4, 2005 Click on the date to view the rare bird alert. July 27, 2005 Click on the date to view the rare bird alert. July 21, 2005 Click on the date to view the rare bird alert. July 14, 2005 Click on the date to view the rare bird alert. 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