An popular spot with an impressive list.
Directions: Take Gavel Road east off of Route 4 at the blinking yellow traffic signal 3.7 miles south of the junction of Routes 4 and 111 in Alfred, or 0.7 miles north of the junction of Routes 4 and 109 in south Sanford.3
Hours as posted: Monday through Friday 8 am – 3 pm, closed weekends and holidays. Please sign in at the office when you arrive. Feel free to double check their website to see if the hours have changed: https://www.sanfordsewerage.org/
Andrew Aldrich, Paul Miliotis, and eBird reporters have compiled this list of more than 200 species for the Sanford Lagoons:
- Snow Goose
- Brant
- Canada Goose
- Mute Swan
- Black-bellied Whistling Duck
- Wood Duck
- Gadwall
- American Wigeon
- American Black Duck
- Mallard
- Blue-winged Teal
- Northern Shoveler
- Northern Pintail
- Green-winged Teal
- Redhead
- Ring-necked Duck
- Greater Scaup
- Lesser Scaup
- Surf Scoter
- White-winged Scoter
- Long-tailed Duck
- Bufflehead
- Common Goldeneye
- Barrow’s Goldeneye
- Hooded Merganser
- Common Merganser
- Red-breasted Merganser
- Ruddy Duck
- Ruffed Grouse
- Wild Turkey
- Common Loon
- Pied-billed Grebe
- Horned Grebe
- Eared Grebe
- Double-crested Cormorant
- Great Cormorant
- Great Blue Heron
- Great Egret
- Little Blue Heron
- Snowy Egret
- Green Heron
- Black-crowned Night-Heron
- American Bittern
- Least Bittern
- Glossy Ibis
- Turkey Vulture
- Osprey
- Bald Eagle
- Northern Harrier
- Sharp-shinned Hawk
- Cooper’s Hawk
- Northern Goshawk
- Red-shouldered Hawk
- Broad-winged Hawk
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Rough-legged Hawk
- American Kestrel
- Merlin
- Peregrine Falcon
- Virginia Rail
- Sora
- Purple Gallinule
- Common Moorhen
- American Coot
- Black-bellied Plover
- American Golden-Plover
- Semipalmated Plover
- Piping Plover
- Killdeer
- American Avocet
- Greater Yellowlegs
- Lesser Yellowlegs
- Solitary Sandpiper
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Whimbrel
- Sanderling
- Semipalmated Sandpiper
- Western Sandpiper
- Least Sandpiper
- White-rumped Sandpiper
- Baird’s Sandpiper
- Pectoral Sandpiper
- Dunlin
- Stilt Sandpiper
- Buff-breasted Sandpiper
- Short-billed Dowitcher
- Long-billed Dowitcher
- Wilson’s Snipe
- American Woodcock
- Wilson’s Phalarope
- Red-necked Phalarope
- Bonaparte’s Gull
- Ring-billed Gull
- Herring Gull
- Iceland Gull
- Great Black-backed Gull
- Black-legged Kittiwake
- Common Tern
- Least Tern
- Rock Pigeon
- Mourning Dove
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo
- Snowy Owl
- Northern Saw-whet Owl
- Common Nighthawk
- Whip-poor-will
- Chimney Swift
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird
- Belted Kingfisher
- Downy Woodpecker
- Hairy Woodpecker
- Northern Flicker
- Pileated Woodpecker
- Olive-sided Flycatcher
- Eastern Wood-Pewee
- Least Flycatcher
- Eastern Phoebe
- Great Crested Flycatcher
- Eastern Kingbird
- Northern Shrike
- White-eyed Vireo
- Blue-headed Vireo
- Warbling Vireo
- Philadelphia Vireo
- Red-eyed Vireo
- Blue Jay
- American Crow
- Common Raven
- Horned Lark
- Purple Martin
- Tree Swallow
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow
- Bank Swallow
- Cliff Swallow
- Barn Swallow
- Black-capped Chickadee
- Tufted Titmouse
- Red-breasted Nuthatch
- White-breasted Nuthatch
- Brown Creeper
- Carolina Wren
- House Wren
- Marsh Wren
- Golden-crowned Kinglet
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet
- Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
- Eastern Bluebird
- Veery
- Hermit Thrush
- Wood Thrush
- American Robin
- Gray Catbird
- Northern Mockingbird
- Brown Thrasher
- European Starling
- American Pipit
- Cedar Waxwing
- Nashville Warbler
- Northern Parula
- Yellow Warbler
- Chestnut-sided Warbler
- Magnolia Warbler
- Cape May Warbler
- Yellow-rumped Warbler
- Black-throated Green Warbler
- Pine Warbler
- Prairie Warbler
- Palm Warbler
- Blackpoll Warbler
- Black-and-white Warbler
- American Redstart
- Ovenbird
- Louisiana Waterthrush
- Common Yellowthroat
- Canada Warbler
- Scarlet Tanager
- Eastern Towhee
- American Tree Sparrow
- Chipping Sparrow
- Vesper Sparrow
- Lark Sparrow
- Savannah Sparrow
- Fox Sparrow
- Song Sparrow
- Lincoln’s Sparrow
- Swamp Sparrow
- White- throated Sparrow
- White- crowned Sparrow
- Dark-eyed Junco
- Lapland Longspur
- Snow Bunting
- Northern Cardinal
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak
- Indigo Bunting
- Dickcissel
- Bobolink
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Eastern Meadowlark
- Yellow-headed Blackbird
- Rusty Blackbird
- Common Grackle
- Brown-headed Cowbird
- Baltimore Oriole
- Purple Finch
- House Finch
- Common Redpoll
- Pine Siskin
- American Goldfinch
- House Sparrow