a. Contact Derek & Jeannette Lovitch, outstanding field biologists. They know what is hot & where to go. Derek regularly leads local field trips.

Derek & Jeannette Lovitch <freeportwildbird at yahoo.com>?

Derek's blog:
http://maineoutdoorjournal.mainetoday.com/blog.html?id=15198?


b. Warbler migration HOTSPOT: Evergreen Cemetary, Portland, Maine - go to the back of cemetary, where ponds are. One of best in all of Maine. Ask Derek or me for directions to find the ponds. Ask for where to park, as the gates may be closed for dawn birding.

c. Excellent birding if traveling from Boston to NH: Plum Island, Newburyport, MA:
http://www.fws.gov/northeast/parkerriver/?
Car camping available nearby

d. Subscribe to online bird reports for Maine. Email Julie Sujecki

jsucheck at maine.rr.com?

Ask to be placed on email announcements she sends out for Maine bird sightings.

e.?Excerpt from Maine birding "digest," with info about Hog Island classes:
Subject: [Maine-birds] 2012 Hog Island Audubon Camp in Maine - registration open

The National Audubon Society has opened registration for their?legendary 6-day birding programs for adults, teens and families at the
historic Audubon Camp in Maine on Hog Island. Pete Dunne, Scott?Weidensaul, Steve Kress, Lang Elliott, Don Kroodsma, Bill Thompson III
and many more expert ornithologists, naturalists, educators and?authors will be in residence during the 2012 sessions.

Hog Island Audubon Camp is run by the Seabird Restoration Program?(Project Puffin) of the National Audubon Society. All summer programs?include field trips to nearby Eastern Egg Rock, where Dr. Steve Kress?and his team of biologists have successfully restored an island colony?of Atlantic Puffins, and Roseate, Arctic and Common Terns. Immerse?yourself in the joy of birding with expert-led workshops, lively?evening presentations, saltwater birding tours and trips to diverse?habitats on the Maine coast.

For more information or to enroll, visit?http://hogisland.audubon.org/?or call (607) 257-7308 x 14. Email:?hogisland at audubon.org

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f. Save the trip to Acadia for a summer or fall trip. Acadia will still have snow & no insects or leaves to entice the warblers that far north.?

Diana Sorus
She who laughs, lasts.