Column: Despite the recent storms, songbirds are returning to Maine for spring

BANGOR DAILY NEWS • April 16, 2020

it’s been a quiet week in Lake Woebegone. Heavy, wet snow followed by 60 mph winds knocked out power for half a week. After four days without a shower, people were staying a lot more than six feet away from me. The heavy winds blew from the south, the kind of overnight tailwind that brings in a fresh crop of migrant birds in April. I wondered what kind of birds would welcome flying in such a gale Monday night. My question was answered at daybreak, when I stepped onto the porch and heard my first ruby-crowned kinglet of the year.  Your homework: Learn one bird by next week – the song sparrow. They’re everywhere in Maine. ~ Bob Duchesne