BANGOR DAILY NEWS • August 29, 2021
this week is the apex of shorebird season in Maine. Tens of thousands of birds that nested in the far north, near or above the Arctic Circle, are now flooding our coastline en route to their wintering grounds. It’s a natural phenomenon that we often take for granted. Maine has big tides and huge mudflats. So, if a mudflat is in your future, let’s set aside the panic that small sandpipers are hard to identify and not worth the effort. Almost all of them are least and semipalmated sandpipers. Finding the other three? That’s like panning for gold. Every now and then, you’ll find a nugget. ~ Bob Duchesne