Mainers and Canadians Enjoy First Aroostook State Park Birding Festival

About 135 people from across Maine and New Brunswick, Canada showed up for the first Aroostook State Park Birding festival last Saturday.

“It’s a huge success for Aroostook County, for the birding world in Maine,” Park Manager Scott Thompson said. “It’s a huge success in that it was getting individuals who had never been here to this part of Maine.”

Thompson claimed that the event helped the local economy, citing a Brunswick couple that ate and spent the night in the area. “They were totally satisfied, glad they made the trip,” he said

Fifty-six species of birds were seen by participants, including Maine’s official bird, the black-capped chickadee, woodpeckers, American redstarts, hummingbirds and Northern parulas.