We picked perhaps one of the hottest days of the summer to go to
Laudholm Farm (with an unscheduled supplement to the Kennebunk Plains
[KP]), but it was a fine day.

Observers: Owen Buck, Joan and Stan DeOrsey, Susan and Tom Hayward
(recorder), Dan Marquis (leader), Vyonne Spaar.

Species seen and/or heard:


Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Canada Goose
Green-winged Teal
American Black Duck
Common Eider
Turkey Vulture (KP)
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Wild Turkey
Semipalmated Plover
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Sanderling
Semipalmated Sandpiper
American Woodcock
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird (KP)
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Eastern Kingbird
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow (KP)
Blue Jay
American Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Eastern Bluebird
Gray Catbird
Brown Thrasher
Cedar Waxwing
European Starling
Red-eyed Vireo
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Northern Cardinal
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow (KP)
Song Sparrow
American Goldfinch

TOTALS: 7 observers, 49 species (as the trip broke up, the Haywards
saw a House Sparrow [the 50th species]; there was also an unidentified
Empidonax flycatcher at KP).