BANGOR DAILY NEWS • July 6, 2023
Most of Maine’s breeding birds are easy to see. Some aren’t. I nominate Bicknell’s thrush as the most difficult to observe. The quest to locate the elusive bird took me to a mountaintop last weekend, fighting wind and fog, trying to see one. I succeeded, barely. One flew by, just as I was steadying myself on a rocky outcropping. In three hours of searching, it was the only one I saw. But I heard several. ~ Bob Duchesne