A beautiful day birding
August 5, 2007 · Print This Article
A spectacular day in southern Maine, as the humidity and heat are gone and sea breezes and much cooler temperatures greeted our morning birding trip to Goose Rocks Beach.
I never tire of the shorebirds we have been enjoying and hope that visitors to our site don’t get bored with them either.
I will keep this short and sweet tonight, with more behavior photos of shorebirds. You will also find two photos of a juvenile Bald Eagle that Sharon and I saw at Granite Point, not more than 20 feet above our heads. It then soared over Curtis Cove and went in the direction of Timber Island. These Eagle photos are not the best ones I ever took due to nearly shooting into the sun, but proof positive as to what we saw.
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The next set of pictures are of an Eastern Willet eating a crab. It was fun to watch as the Willet first removed the crabs legs one by one and then proceeded to eat the thing whole. Notice how the Willet dislocates its jaw to accommodate the crab.
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The following pictures are of a very cooperative Northern Mockingbird at Granite Point this morning. The bug in the birds mouth looks to be a moth. We also watched a young Mockingbird trying to take its first flight.
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The final set of pictures are of a shorebird that I can not identify. Larger than a peep and somewhat smaller than a Willet, notice its short bill. May be a juvenile, I just don’t know. Your help would be greatly appreciated!
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Happy birding!
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John, Great work,When is the show???? Bob Malbon
Hi John,
Your unkown bird is a Black-bellied Plover in non-breeding plumage.
Nice pictures,
Luc
Bob;
Break out the mattes and frames! Such a beautiful day Sunday, makes you wish all days were like that.
John
Luc;
Thank you for your input and you comments. They are greatly appreciated!
John Briggs
Seeing the beautiful shorebird photos you take makes me want to take my wife to the Maine shoreline for a vacation!I stayed in Olgonquit(or something like that) once.
Larry;
My wife and I saw the beautiful pictures of the Maine shore and moved up here to enjoy it personally. A little more drastic than vacationing, but it was worth it!
Ogunquit, Maine…. about 25 miles south of here. If you ever come up again, look me up, I’ll give you the grand bird tour.
John
I’ll be sure to do that next time I’m heading that way-thanks-