BANGOR DAILY NEWS • February 13, 2021
Jim Tyler of Searsmont told me about a new “pal” he’d met in the woods behind his home. “[This] partridge has been here for about a month,” Tyler said. “It started by coming out of the woods when I started my diesel truck up. Now it comes up to me when I come out of the house. [It] took about two weeks and I had it eating out of my hand and following me around while walking.” Brad Allen, bird group leader for the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, said, “feeding wildlife (especially by hand) is not promoted, but feeding birds in the winter is generally a pretty accepted activity,”