I emailed my friend Kathy whom I met originally in Australia. We have since met up a couple of times in Florida in the winter for several days of birding. Well Kathy responded and came up today to bird the Ogunquit area for the day and is staying with us tonight and will return home tomorrow. It was great to catch up with non-birding stuff, we both have three grown children and newly arrived grandkids except Kathy has one more than I do. I asked the kids here and Norm is they minded if I birded for a day, no worries. They went off to the Marginal Walk and the beach today and the little ones had a good afternoon nap today. I arrived home to make supper for everyone. Kathy brought some cucumbers and tomatoes and some patty pan squash for supper and with some splash, thank you!
Kathy drove up from Massachusetts this morning and I met her at the corner of Meadow as it is a tight quick corner and I did not want her to miss the turn. We first headed out to Mount Agamenticus which is a lookout spot and a recommended excellent spot to see the sunset. It was also a good spot to look at birds. Eastern Bluebirds, Chipping Sparrows, Eastern Phoebe abound. In addition there was a striking bright yellow warbler that was all yellow on the breast and rump with a distinctive facial pattern that we could not identify it right away and we could not get a photo of it all. The best we can come up with .... we think it was a Prairie Warbler. It was quite striking. The views from this mountain (at 600 odd feet about sea level) are amazing. There are excellent east, north and south markings along with the mountain scapes and one can see Mountain Washington from here. It is very impressive and I plan to go back wth the kids for the sunset before we leave here.
Then we headed north on Highway 1 to the Wells Preserve at Laudholm. Here we did the Barrier Beach Trail through the salt marshes to the ocean where we had fantastic close up views of Semi-palmated Plovers, Semi-palmated Sandpipers and Sanderlings. About a group of several hundred.
We have spent the evening checking our photos for any other species that we may have missed and it looks like we had only these three species.
We walked the beach here and saw seals in the water and then a big headed type of seal. To end the day went to the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Preserve which looked to be a very good spot but we were almost out of time and we left at 6 pm. In the parking lot we were looking at a motor home and met the couple who just bought it two months ago and it was made in Ontario in Kitchener Waterloo by coincidence. We chatted with them for a bit. Then hit a boardwalk trail that overlooked some salt marshes. Not too many birds but Great Blue Heron, Canada Geese and Greater Yellow
Yellow Legs. The biting mosquitoes or flies or whatever were very annoying evening with bug stuff on. WE headed home from here and it would have been good to visit here longer but we just ran out of time. We got home and I had asked the kids to pick up fresh fish and we had fresh Baked Haddock
Kathy's tomatoes and cucumbers in the salad, pan fried patty pan squash, fresh asparagus which was the best I have ever tasted and a rice dish. Everyone enjoyed it all. Then dessert was two bite brownies with Moose Tracks ice cream.
Kathy and I are looking at out photos while Norm and the kids are at the table playing crib.
A busy day and a good birding day. Thank you Kathy!
Kathy drove up from Massachusetts this morning and I met her at the corner of Meadow as it is a tight quick corner and I did not want her to miss the turn. We first headed out to Mount Agamenticus which is a lookout spot and a recommended excellent spot to see the sunset. It was also a good spot to look at birds. Eastern Bluebirds, Chipping Sparrows, Eastern Phoebe abound. In addition there was a striking bright yellow warbler that was all yellow on the breast and rump with a distinctive facial pattern that we could not identify it right away and we could not get a photo of it all. The best we can come up with .... we think it was a Prairie Warbler. It was quite striking. The views from this mountain (at 600 odd feet about sea level) are amazing. There are excellent east, north and south markings along with the mountain scapes and one can see Mountain Washington from here. It is very impressive and I plan to go back wth the kids for the sunset before we leave here.
Then we headed north on Highway 1 to the Wells Preserve at Laudholm. Here we did the Barrier Beach Trail through the salt marshes to the ocean where we had fantastic close up views of Semi-palmated Plovers, Semi-palmated Sandpipers and Sanderlings. About a group of several hundred.
We have spent the evening checking our photos for any other species that we may have missed and it looks like we had only these three species.
We walked the beach here and saw seals in the water and then a big headed type of seal. To end the day went to the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Preserve which looked to be a very good spot but we were almost out of time and we left at 6 pm. In the parking lot we were looking at a motor home and met the couple who just bought it two months ago and it was made in Ontario in Kitchener Waterloo by coincidence. We chatted with them for a bit. Then hit a boardwalk trail that overlooked some salt marshes. Not too many birds but Great Blue Heron, Canada Geese and Greater Yellow
Yellow Legs. The biting mosquitoes or flies or whatever were very annoying evening with bug stuff on. WE headed home from here and it would have been good to visit here longer but we just ran out of time. We got home and I had asked the kids to pick up fresh fish and we had fresh Baked Haddock
Kathy's tomatoes and cucumbers in the salad, pan fried patty pan squash, fresh asparagus which was the best I have ever tasted and a rice dish. Everyone enjoyed it all. Then dessert was two bite brownies with Moose Tracks ice cream.
Kathy and I are looking at out photos while Norm and the kids are at the table playing crib.
A busy day and a good birding day. Thank you Kathy!
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