Day 18.193: An evening by the pool...

...the tidal pool for which the neighborhood of Biddeford Pool is named that is. Maps call it simply "The Pool", but in reality, most of it is - depending on the tide - very shallow water or mud flats. Only a small section is deep enough to be used as a harbor. It is, however, a great place for some sunset birding and that's why our nature group gathered there yesterday.

We briefly walked a short distance to the other end of the mouth of the inlet to look out into Saco Bay, so some of the photos are in that direction. Here's what I captured:

House sparrow with some missing feathers and something (good?) to eat

Family of Canada geese

American herring gull with some lobster perhaps

Cedar waxwing looking slick

Another one looking just as spiffy, but a little less slick

Tern hunting out in the bay

And one that had recently had some success

Gulls following a fishing boat

Egret flyby

Egret peekaboo

Perched tern

There's a pool or inlet there somewhere

Glossy ibises

Blazing stars

Great blue heron

Short-billed dowitchers. I learned their rapid three-note call

It was getting quite dark by the time this young black-crowned night heron arrived

The birds that caught the setting sun were a bit easier to photograph by then