There are two dozen warblers nesting in Maine. 11 are so common, everyone should know them by sight and sound. We're counting them down to the #1 WARBLER.
I like how this video includes essentially everything a birder likes to see: great footage of warblers, warblers on-screen singing, bird humor, and surprise owls
@Bob_Duchesne LMAO--man, I would kill to see so many warblers at my place. This is actually my first spring migration that I've been birding, so I've been practicing with my warbler/warbler song ID. This video helped a ton!
Awsome video. MAINE is God's country. I go there every year from Pennsylvania. My wife and I have a off grid cabin near Sherman and Patton. That's where I'm retiring. I love Maine. God bless. 😊😊
I have tame gorbies, or gray Jay. They follow me when I'm deer hunting. They always get a bite to eat from me. We saw a lynx last year in August. . God bless😊
Glad to hear you're already working on the next video Bob! Keep 'em coming!! We love your knowledge, your wit & humor. All 3 make a great teacher! Thank You!
Warbler report from a mountain in the Berkshires today: Ovenbird Louisiana waterthrush Black-and-white warbler Nashville warbler American redstart Blackburnian warbler Chestnut-sided warbler Black-throated blue warbler Pine warbler Yellow-rumped warbler Black-throated green warbler Canada warbler I've been hiking for years and it's truly shocking the beauty and biodiversity that I just passed right on by for so long.
Great video Bob. Just finished a trip through downeast looking for spruce grouse and saw a ton of different warblers. Wish I watched the video first! Would have helped me identify all the birds I heard but never saw! And thank you again for the suggestions you gave me last year on finding spruce grouse had a wonderful trip!
When the Greenway was added in Boston, I started noticing birds that I had never seen before in my urban area. They were, of course, the common yellowthroat and the ovenbird. A black throated blue warbler I saw near the beach at Savin Hill caught me off guard though.
Another great video. I was thinking that the Waterthrushes will make the cut. They are very common here in Maryland. I would love to see a video on Vireos as well.
Yes, waterthrushes were close. We don't have many Louisiana waterthrushes in Maine, but we have a ton of northerns. I've also been thinking about doing a vireo video. I need to travel a little bit to get singing yellow-throated vireos. They aren't up my way very much. The Philadelphia vireos are a little north of me, but well within reach. But they are pesky little buggers.
I'm in Santa Barbara, CA, and trying to learn warbler songs/i.d. Probably shouldn't have watched this video, since I'm nowhere near Maine, but then I did see/hear a few birds we have in part of the world: Yellow-rumped warbler, Common yellowthroat (a personal favorite). I even spotted (and recorded) a Chestnut-sided warbler here during the Great Backyard Bird Count (Feb. 2023). Thanks for the great video, Bob. Subscribed.
Wonderful video Bob. I wanted to add a comment regarding the NOPA (Parula) songs. You mentioned it would be hard to confuse with any other warbler. I think it is important to emphasize yes for Maine but no sometimes for areas where it shares habitat with CERW. There is a moniker I've heard which is the 'Parulean' song to illustrate this. The trained ear can tell them apart but sometimes the NOPA will sing a song which sounds somewhat like CERW especially if songs are fragmented at all. This can and does lead sometimes to misidentification as the singer up in the canopy is often not seen.
Thanks. I've only encountered two, although one was singing in my yard years ago - way out of range. To me, they sound like black-throated blue warblers...which is similar enough to northern parula that it can fool some folks.
Thank you for your nice video. I enjoyed it very much. I really like Merlin and use it often. As for ebird not so much a fan but heck thats just me. Just about every birder I know uses it. I like stats for baseball. bird on, peace
I like Merlin a lot, even when it's wrong. It's correct most of the time, and that makes birding by ear much more accessible to people. I don't use it much myself, but I enjoy testing it. It's improving all the time. It took me a long time to get used to eBird, but it's second nature now.
bob I’m 21 and I really look up to you! I hope someday I can communicate how amazing birds are as well as you do. Just finished my very first year birding this big day. My first list was 33 species and I had 89 on saturday!! I live in NH and find your channel and content INVALUABLE. Please don’t stop. I wish I was able to hear you talk this summer at Acadia but making the trip isnt in my cards this year. I look forward to meeting you and getting to talk about birds with you in person someday!
I was born in NH and got my start birding there...in first grade! That 89 is a GOOD list for one day, especially since so many days have been windy lately! Are you near the coast, adding seabirds to your one day list?
@@Bob_Duchesne Concord area native myself! Its amazing how abundant the life is just near my house. I was on trails before 4am and got a lot done before the wind started. Warblers were in abundance; including a golden winged, blue winged, and wilsons. Kestrel, Merlin, Northern Harrier, Osprey, Broad-winged, Eagles, Peregrine nest, Red-tail L. Water thrush, Orchard oriole, Blue-gray gnatcatcher, meadowlark, Bobolink, A. Bittern, Loon, V. Rail. Spotted & Solitary sandpipers, Killdeer, Swallows, multiple wrens, wood hermit & swainsons thrush, Chimney swift and E. Whip-poor-will Not my full list but things outside the normal that definitely helped my count! I wont be able to find lifers in my neighborhood forever, the first year of birding is SO rewarding.
Thanks so much. I love Merlin and eBird. I actually live close to Cornell 😊 your videos are very nice and helpful! Your voice is great too. The "please please please, to MEET YOU" was so helpful for Chestnut sided!!!
Great video, Bob! My partner and I just spent 4 days birding around Acacia. We came up from Ohio. We found some great birds, 94 species total. And that includes one day at Scarborough Marsh to pick up Saltmarsh Sparrow. We saw lots of good stuff on out on our Puffins and Lighthouses cruise. Leach’s and Wilson’s Storm Petrol, Common Murre, Atlantic Puffin, and you know the rest! We did see a bunch of warblers, including: Black-throated Blue, Nashville, Palm, Blackburnian, and the 11 easy ones! Bird of the trip though was a Northern Goshawk! I thought back to a video you made warning birders to stay away if you stumble across one with a nest! Well, we did! She was going on crazy and let us know we were not welcome!! We did get a nice a nice look and I got a few quick pics! Your book and videos were a big help! Thanks so much for all the great information! Appreciate you a great deal!
Great video been thinking of a trip up there in June. How hard is it to find Tennessee, Cape May, Bay Breasted, Nashville? And where in ME would one have the best shot at these? Maps seem to indicate the far northern border with Quebec
Nashville warblers are easy enough anywhere above Bangor, and even below. Otherwise, you are correct. The other three are more northerly. Bay-breasted is accessible in some spots along the coast. Tennessee and Cape May tend to be up in Aroostook County.
@@Bob_Duchesne Bob, thanks. Accommodation wise what would be the best place in Aroostook County to base out of? Someplace with a decent hotel and places to eat?
@@ricki-bobby It's OK, but there are drawbacks. First, you're pinned up against the border, so there's not as much available research. East of town is mostly farmland. West of town is one road with little public access to the woods. For your northern warblers, you'd prefer to be in the coniferous areas between Caribou and Ft. Kent. Much of it is on Irving Timber Land, which is good but requires a little familiarity logging roads and operations.
@@Bob_Duchesne Bob, thanks. Very helpful. I will look at Caribou as a base of operations. Initially I was considering Gaspe because the maps show high density of boreal birds but the logistics seem very challenging and then the language thing could be a challenge depending on where you base out of
Bob, you are always so entertaining and glad we both found that Whooping Crane in Florida when I noticed your Mine State plate…I told you my daughter lives in Cherryfield…and the rest has been a colorful history. I will never forget that mosquito infested walk you took us on in Petit Manan or Bruce the Spruce Goose.🦤
