Column: This Maine point is a front-row seat to a massive bird migration happening now

BANGOR DAILY NEWS • October 10, 2026

Millions of waterbirds nest across Canada. Virtually all of them need to head south before Canada freezes into a 3.85-million-square mile block of winter ice. Many of those birds are migrating through Maine waters right now. It’s a spectacle almost nobody notices, unless they are tipped off by a highly popular newspaper columnist. All these birds are flying south. They follow predictable pathways. One of the major flyways takes them past Schoodic Point. On October 17, 2018, an astounding migration flight took place. The counters tallied 29,147 birds in one day. ~ Bob Duchesne