BANGOR DAILY NEWS • April 11, 2025
The curtain rises on the big show in a week, when the first major wave of migrant songbirds returns to Maine. Three warbler species will lead the way: palm, pine, and yellow-rumped. Ruby-crowned kinglets may overwhelm them all, at least vocally. It’s hard to shut ‘em up this time of year. Yellow-bellied sapsuckers will fly in overnight. At dawn, they will begin drumming on the loudest thing they can find. I’ll share one final observation that makes me giggle. Ring-billed gulls look like a smaller version of the ubiquitous herring gull. They’re all over town right now. While getting gas at BJs last week, there were too many in the parking lot to count. ~ Bob Duchesne