BANGOR DAILY NEWS • August 12, 2020
August is the month when birds start to do strange things. May features the influx of migrants. June is dedicated to baby-making. July is all about baby-raising. For the first half of summer, birds arrive at their breeding sites, and stay there. But August brings post-baby weirdness. It’s time for birds, young and old, to spread their wings and fly – both literally and figuratively. They wander. A lot. Eventually most will fly south, but not before possibly wandering north or east. Some are fleeing the tundra. Some are fleeing their kids. Some are just settling in for the winter. Anything can happen, and it probably will. ~ Bob Duchesne