Column: Wings and Water

FREE PRESS • April 28, 2020

As many birders wait expectantly for streams of May warblers, other migratory trends are currently in progress. April is an active month for waterfowl, with comings and goings galore. Overwintering species, like long-tailed ducks, scoters, common goldeneye and bufflehead, will soon depart for breeding grounds outside of Maine. These will be replaced by familiar summer nesters — mallards and black ducks, wood ducks and teal, hooded and common mergansers. ~ Don Reimer