A black-backed woodpecker was the icing on the cake for a wicked good Baxter State Park birding tour that wrapped up yesterday. Gotta say: he gave great looks. I’ve posted the video at www.mainebirdingtrail.com. Later, we had a mourning warbler perch in open sunlight almost within arm’s reach – best view ever. The tour notched 20 warbler species, missing only Cape May, Wilson’s, and Yellow. (Really? Who misses Yellow Warbler?) Bay-breasted Warblers were so numerous that we stopped announcing them as they were heard out the open car window. Ditto for Blackpolls. Three Tennessee Warblers and a bunch of Philadelphia Vireos made the list. Boreal Chickadees are starting to come out of hiding. I just hope all these birds perform so well on the next Baxter State Park birding tour later this month.
Bob Duchesne
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