I spent spring and summer of 2013 & 2014 working for Project Puffin in Maine, USA. Living on small, isolated islands off the East coast of the continent put me in a position to observe much shorebird migration. Here are a few photos of some of the species that stopped by to feed in the small fresh and salt water pools on the island.
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| Short-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus griseus. Maine, USA. June 2014. |
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| Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes. Maine, USA. August 2014. |
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| White-rumped Sandpiper Calidris fuscicollis. Maine, USA. July 2014. |
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| Purple Sandpiper Calidris maritima. Maine, USA. July 2014. |
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| Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopus. Maine, USA. July 2014. |
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| (Hudsonian) Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus. Maine, USA. July 2014. |
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| Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius. Maine, USA. June 2014. |
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| Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla. Maine, USA. June 2014. |
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| Killdeer Charadrius vociferus. Maine, USA. August, 2014. |
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| Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla. Maine, USA. July 2014. |
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| Semipalmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus. Maine, USA. August 2014. |
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| Turnstone Arenaria interpres. Maine, USA. July 2014. |
In total 23 species of shorebird were recorded by our small team of 4-6 over three months on Seal Island National Nature Reserve, a tiny rock in the Gulf of Maine with the Stilt Sandpiper being the most unusual.
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