MAINE BIRDING in the Black Hole

Finches have invaded the North Maine Woods this winter, in a remote area far from city lights. Some of the best birding is in America's wildest area east of the Mississippi. Pine Siskin and White-winged Crossbill numbers are insane this year!

[@syrpentina]

I come for the birds, and stay for the dad jokes 😆

[@aa-ron2243]

great content

[@Bex22]

Hi Bob! You have two new subscribers from Wales, UK 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 My fiancé got a recommendation for one of your wonderful videos by YT and within two minutes we both became big fans of your presenting style and immediately subscribed on our separate YT accounts. Thank you very much for your massively informative and interesting videos of a place we may never get to visit in person. You have the best birder videos on YT in my opinion 😊

[@Bob_Duchesne]

Thanks! I do them for fun. Also, I really want to visit Wales! Someday in the next couple years, I hope.

[@blu12gaming44]

I've been on the Abol Bridge and up toward Telos, but I never knew that area is known as the 'Black Hole'. It's definitely remote and beautiful (and you do have to be mindful of the woodsmen that are busy working, since the Golden Road was created for logging).

[@Bob_Duchesne]

"Black Hole" is just something I made up. The inspiration comes from having satellite photos thrust at me for 12 years while I was serving in the Maine legislature, in order to remind me that it's as close to an undeveloped wilderness as there is east of the Mississippi. So that's now how I think of it.

[@brittnyrv5087]

Great video! I love birds but not snow haha. Looks a little cold.

[@Sam-hf8nq]

The gravitational pull of the black hole is strong this year. Bucket list location for sure. Great, entertaining, informative video as always.

[@stevencanden2911]

Bob - you are just the right amount of unhinged to make some seriously funny & enjoyable birding content. Love it

[@vitalymuravev9911]

I live in St Petersburg, Russia. We love finches here, and some species are the same. Thanks for your content, good job!

[@shreecreativearts5132]

Nice place all covered with snow, with no civilization around,many bird species living in.Thanks for the information and interesting video.

[@Bob_Duchesne]

I spent three days and two nights in the woods. It's both exciting and peaceful to walk those roads in winter. And this year was incredibly loud with finches!

[@danielbaron2809]

Beautiful Finches! We had a ton of Purple Finches down here in the mountains of western North Carolina last winter, so maybe that's where your Maine finches were

[@Bob_Duchesne]

Yeah, when they decide to head south in some winters, they can go a LONG way south. Same with the pine siskins. A few years ago, I came across a big flock in South Carolina!

[@LeadwithNature]

Nice job, Bob!

[@leobachand8408]

Excellent video!! Great variety of birds. Look forward to your next one

[@davearchbell9921]

Great Video. Thanks for locating all our WWCR's & PISI's eh🇨🇦

[@Bob_Duchesne]

It was really insane. SO MANY.

[@davearchbell9921]

@@Bob_Duchesne I drove hours north of Toronto to Temiskiming and finally found PIGR's. We saw 1,500 BOWA's in one tree.

[@user-oc7lz4qb1j]

Looks like the Finch Factory is in full swing. Love the video Bob.

[@forkintherode8236]

Moose tracks- my favorite ice cream. You live in a fabulous place!

[@PixelAquarium]

Oh yeah new video!

[@CC-re1pu]

Thank you for sharing another wonderful video!

[@calebmack7652]

Great video!! Look forward to more! Hello from Nova Scotia✌️

[@Bob_Duchesne]

Some finches were off the charts! But there weren't many redpolls, pine grosbeaks or red crossbills. Are they in Nova Scotia?

[@calebmack7652]

@Bob_Duchesne we do have them here, although I am not sure what kind of numbers this winter

[@IanLynchBibleBytes]

So all this action was around the parking lot at the ranger station at Chamberlain Bridge? (you just tricked us by starting at Abol Bridge, right?)

[@Bob_Duchesne]

Two possibilities: I used Abol Bridge as the starting point just to explain that caution on logging roads is necessary...or I was tricky...or, wait, maybe both! The loudest concentration was in the parking lot, but I spent much of my time on the roads west of Chamberlain, since it's one of my favorite spots for boreal species, especially woodpeckers.

[@AbHAT22]

Maine is new Sax Zim

[@Bob_Duchesne]

Without the owls. Oh, wait. There's a northern hawk-owl drawing a crowd about an hour away from my house right now.