BANGOR DAILY NEWS • February 28, 2025
My wife Sandi and I led a Penobscot Valley Audubon field trip last Saturday. We experienced hits and misses for birds the 16 participants hoped to find. Identifying birds is merely the fifth most-important skill for trip leaders. Ahead on the list: managing people, managing their expectations, managing logistics, and most importantly, knowing where the bathrooms are. We tallied 28 species on the day. I predicted we would get to 30. My wife predicted we wouldn’t. She won. Again. ~ Bob Duchesne