When Canadian Birds INVADE Maine
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- Every winter, Canadian birds invade Maine. Crossbills, redpolls, pine siskins, pine grosbeaks, and evening grosbeaks storm the forest. Snow buntings gather on the blueberry fields. Scoters, eiders, and other Canadian sea ducks take over the Gulf of Maine.
Bob I just found your channel. Incredible videos sir. Please keep up the amazing work!!
I just do them for fun. They keep me amused. Thanks!
This is one of your best videos I’ve watched. It’s filled with fascinating information, beautifully presented.
This one was really fun to do, partly because the birds really cooperated.
Your video makes Maine in winter almost look enticing. Almost!
1:32 you are hilarious 😂 And those are the same birds that visit my home!! East coast Quebec!
The ocean here is also not frozen :p
Hi! Amazing video! Im from Finland and you got many same birds what we have here and i live in south Finland and here comes many speaces migreting from the tundras and some from siberia! New subsciber! Great informaation of lots of birds 🙂
you can always learn something new about your home
Great video, very imformative! There's nothing like the sound of a loon call on a lake in summertime. As a Canadian looking in, thanks for looking after our fine feathered friends over the winter! Now, can we talk about Canada Geese, also know as Cobra Chickens? Please, please take them all! And keep them! 🤣
If I could accomplish one thing in my life, I get my neighbors to stop calling them Canadian geese. They're CANADA geese, dagnabit!
@@Bob_Duchesne I'm with you there! I think Wikipedia even includes the "Canadian Geese" moniker as an option.
A few years ago, I wrote a birding column in the Bangor Daily News, telling everybody "don't call them Canadian Geese! They're Canada Geese!" And what did the editors label the bird in my accompanying photo? You guessed it.
@@Bob_Duchesne LOL that figures!
Incredibly informative. Thank you so much for this video! I enjoyed it!
You just made my day!! Thank you so much!!
Gotta thank the birds. They were unusually cooperative...for a change.
Great score with the Golden Eagle, Bob! They occasionally are seen migrating over western Vermont, so I did some reading to find out where the go and what their routes are. As I recall, there's a population that winters in southern Chesapeake Bay (MD/VA), then migrates up the Hudson River/Lake Champlain corridor to summer up on Hudson Bay; there's a second population that winters in the Appalachians near the Great Smokey Mountains, and then follow the Appalachians up to the Gaspe. The two patterns form an X over Vermont, but in 30+ years of birding, I've never seen one. I used to be able to follow their tracking on a website, but that data is no longer online. Great find!!
It's only my second sighting in Maine, but I suspect I should have seen more and just wasn't paying enough attention. I've seen plenty in the west, including one on a nest. I saw one up in Cape Breton a couple years ago. There's a study going on in Maine right now to see if they might have returned to nesting here.
Great video! I learned a lot. It’s one of the best things about this hobby. I look forward to all of your videos. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and adventures!
Yeah, I just do them for fun. It gives me new ways to interact with birds, and share the fun.
Bob, teach me this miraculous method of changing scenes that you seem to know! :) I love your shows--you're like a birding comedian. Thanks so much for making them. I'm a Mainer but in Florida for the winter--I've seen ibises, a roseate spoonbill, storks, a painted bunting, fish crows, and raucous flocks of green parrots so far.
Here's the video I'm anxiously looking forward to. I've visited the Everglades countless times, starting in 1972. As someone who knows it by heart, I'm looking forward to another visit in March, and I am going to have SUCH fun with it!
We learn so much you and this channel! We are in southern Maine and homeschool. You are an excellent teacher!
That's great. Anything you'd like to see me do a video on this winter?
Another great Video. Thanks Bob.
OMG, this video made me laugh, because I'm Canadian eh! The information was really informative. Love your channel; I can see that a lot of work goes into these videos🦉
True, a lot of work goes into it, but it's fun work. I do it mostly to amuse myself. I've got a REALLY amusing one just about to come out. Can't wait.
Some grate birding thanks for the update
The bird is the word Bob!
I never see the Canada jays (we call them whiskeyjacks) in my area anymore. I miss those little characters.
I've seen a little bit of range contraction in Maine, but not much. They're doing better than some boreal species. They're lots of fun, aren't they?
Love your videos Bob, thank you! We are heading to Jonesport Maine on Tuesday and will keep an eye out for these beautiful birds at Roque Bluffs State Park and Jasper Beach where we'll be walking. Merry Christmas! 🎄👍
Definitely! I had hoped to shoot some of the scoter footage at Roque Bluffs and Jasper Beach, but my window of good weather after this week's storm restricted me to Acadia. Sea ducks are actually easier in Washington County. I may even head that way on Tuesday.
Very nice video on Canadian birds,presented in a very simple way.👍
Another lovely video, thanks Bob! Also, due to you, earlier this week, I visited the spots in southern Maine that you showcased. Saw my first Harlequin Ducks and sandpipers as you promised! Many others that I had seen fleetingly before (long tailed ducks, common Eiders) I got to see very very well. Maine tourism should give you some $$ for increasing tourists to Maine in the winter :)
I'm really itching to get back to southern Maine. My wife and I usually try to do at least one romantic weekend around Ogunquit, coupled with birding, of course. The shoreline is so accessible.
Great video Bob. As a guy that lives in Southern Ontario I hope they all don't fly to the States. I usually head north looking for the finches and Crossbills.
I've seen a golden eagle in the area between Fryberg and Saco Maine. Seen a few in Northern NH also. And I've been to Alaska and seen a whole bunch of Golden eagles there.
Yeah, I've seen a bunch out west. A pair of golden eagles once nested west of Baxter State Park. IFW is going to search for nesting areas next summer.
Great video. I learned a lot. I just bought your book and am really enjoying it.
Great video ❤ Turns out my friend calls you a legend!!
Fezzy
Ha! I'm just doing it for fun - not the stuff legends are made of.😁
Another great video, thank you for sharing!
Excellent video!! Really like all the info on the Canadian invaders! Just got back from Pea Island NC and Bombay Hook Del, looking to hit the Maine coast mid January.
We really appreciate your videos
Love Pea Island and Bombay Hook. If you haven't done Forsythe (Brigantine) NWR in New Jersey, put it on your list. It's one of my favorites!
Some great information here! Thanks for sharing it
Great video, thank you!
You certainly have a variety of birds in Maine. I don't really blame the Canadian birds for wintering in Maine. Maine is a nice state. Very informative video all compressed within 15 minutes. Merry Christmas to you and a Happy New Year.
Thanks. It's a subtle thrill. I live in a place where I can just hear them roaming around, usually as they're flying overhead. It spices up winter, for sure.
Another great video! Thank you!
Nicely done! I haven't been in ME since the early 70s.
We saved a place for you.
@@Bob_Duchesne4th of July, Bar Harbor!
I like your videos ,this is the best one. Just curious what is the largest low bush blueberries field? And does is open to pubic for birding? Thank you
Thanks! The big fields in Columbia Falls are private, but there is a public right-of-way on the main roads through them. For snow buntings, just stay on the big roads (no need to get off) and never go into the fields. I bird those in all months of the year.
@@Bob_Duchesne thank you
Leave it to Bob Duchesne ! WoNDeRFuL video...yet again, BOB...yet again.
Thanks. I do it mostly to amuse myself. Plus it's another way to appreciate wildlife, which I so enjoy.
Who is doing your video of the birds?
Did the Birds have “Canadian Passports?” Otherwise they are Canada Birds. 😂
Love this! So badass
0:25 No, it’s pronounced ‘bird’
Come on ! You say « INVASION » because you’re a citizen of the United States. You know that birds don’t have any frontiers. Last summer we had the opportunity to photograph three roseate spoonbills in Quebec !!!!! Was it an invasion from south America ? 😂
Come on down here and get your Canada jays.
Please come get your Canada geese as well. 😉
@@Knoxington OK, but I'm taking the American robins with me.
LOL !!! I can’t get them back because I don’t want you think that the Canadians are invading your country !!! 😜
You know that you’re always welcomed to visit us and we’re looking forward to visit your awesome country.
Have a wonderful Christmas everyone !!!
We are very lucky to live on this continent.
Hear, hear! They are in Sweden as well, they shit everywhere@@Knoxington
Maine is not even among the top 10 in blueberry production. I live in Oregon and they are 4th. WA-1, GA- 2, MI-3 and OR-4.
As I said, Maine is the leader in lowbush blueberries. According to the USDA: "Maine is the leading producer of lowbush or wild blueberries. Lowbush blueberries are native to northern New England and Atlantic Canada. Almost 500 farmers manage 36,000 acres of commercial wild blueberry land in Maine."
@@Bob_DuchesneI love our wild low bush berries!