Forgot to post that there was a Northern Mockingbird singing near the parking lot of the Cross Center on Sunday morning. Although I don't doubt that more than one mockingbird winters over in Bangor, it was a pleasant surprise to hear birdsong this time of year.
Yesterday my husband spotted a Carolina Wren making its periodic visit to our front yard here in Camden.
When I was growing up here in Maine in the 1970s and 80s, mockingbirds (and Tufted Titmice) were still southern upstarts that one rarely saw—certainly not here in Camden—and a Carolina Wren (and Red-bellied Woodpecker) would have been a huge rarity. Amazing to think about the shifts in "expected" birds in just a few decades...
Kristen
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