Saturday, October 17, 2026

Day 19.280: Birds at/near the beach

Our nature group gathered at Fortunes Rocks Beach in Biddeford this afternoon. We spent some time at the beach and at two nearby ponds. Here is some of what we saw.

Bufflehead

Ring-billed gulls

A fly walking on the surface of the pond - likely from the genus Hydrophorus

Our crew today

Northern pintail with mallards

Green-winged teal

Admiring the Montauk daisies (and the insect life attracted to them)

Wonderful bursts of color in the foliage all around

Blackpoll warbler in a crab apple tree

Blackpoll warbler

Ruby-crowned kinglet

Dunlin

Northern gannet

Dunlin with white-rumped sandpipers

Merlin

He sat on top of this rock for a few moments, then a wave dislodged him

White-winged scoters

Red-breasted mergansers

Surf scoter

American herring gull

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