Monday, April 6, 2026

Day 19.086: Saturday morning birding

Our first stop on Saturday was to meet with our nature group. We visited four places at Biddeford Pool and observed birds and trees. Here are some of the birds we saw:

House sparrow

Piping plover (first of the year)

Eastern phoebe

Eastern phoebe

Great blue heron

Northern flicker

Northern cardinal

Great blue heron on the mudflats of the Pool

Song sparrow

Surf scoter (front)

Long-tailed ducks

Brant (second lifetime record and first of the year)

Common loon 

Brant

American black duck

Mallard

Red-winged blackbird

Gadwalls

Hooded merganser

Red-breasted merganser

Song sparrow

American wigeon

Belted kingfisher

Eastern bluebird

Double-crested cormorants (arriving in the area in numbers after their winter absence)

Common grackle

Common grackle (same bird - amazing color change when it turned around)

Great black-backed gull

Black scoters

Common eiders

Common eiders

Great blue heron

Brown-headed cowbirds

Northern flicker

House finch

Also notably seen but not photographed: golden-crowned kinglet and tree swallow (both the first records of the year for me).

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