Column: Canadian finches are invading Maine to find food this fall

BANGOR DAILY NEWS • November 19, 2020

It took only minutes before my latest bird forecast started to go haywire. Last week, I relayed a prediction that Canadian finches would invade Maine this winter. Then I went for a walk. I hadn’t ventured more than a quarter mile from my front door before I began to regret one of last week’s predictions. Part of the forecast was that berry-eating birds, such as pine grosbeaks and bohemian waxwings, would likely stay in Quebec. They didn’t. I’ve been hearing grosbeaks everywhere. What’s next, 2020, a plague of locusts? ~ Bob Duchesne