Day 16.122: Birding walk and a birding walk

We're a day behind, but that's OK. Yesterday morning, Dad and I got up rather early to join a birding walk with Josh Fecteau in the Laurel Hill Cemetery. It was excellent - and well-worth the early start. Here are some of what we saw:

LR from top: Cooper's hawk, Baltimore oriole, gray catbird, eastern bluebird, great crested flycatcher, downy woodpecker, another eastern bluebird, red crossbills, yellow warbler

Later, Exile #2 and Exile #4 joined us for a walk at East Point Sanctuary in Biddeford Pool, which turned into another birding excursion.

The intrepid gang

Exile #4 on the trail

A group of common mergansers flew by

We saw a number of double-crested cormorants...

...and lots of eider

Some long-tailed ducks

A red-necked grebe, a brown thrasher, a song sparrow and a spring azure butterfly

We're also fairly sure we heard an upland sandpiper (maybe even two), but we didn't see one.