BANGOR DAILY NEWS • October 13, 2022
I’m at Schoodic Point in Acadia National Park. It is swarming with black-capped chickadees. If God had sent a plague of chickadees instead of locusts into Egypt, it would look the way Schoodic Point does today. It’s a chickadee irruption. Migrants migrate, typically to someplace warmer. However, some species wander in any direction, looking for the best winter food supply. Finches and waxwings do this a lot. Some species irrupt. ~ Bob Duchesne