The annual Down East Spring Birding Festival provides a unique birding experience during spring migration and the breeding season with guided hikes and boat tours, all led by local guides with local knowledge

Schedule:

Festival Headquarters

5:30 am - 12:00 pm EDT
COBSCOOK INSTITUTE
Stop by to use the restroom, have a cup of coffee, fill your water bottle, take a rest, or get information

Monday

Breakfast
5:00 am - 8:30 am EDT
FESTIVAL HQ
Join us for an early morning cuppa & complimentary light meal.

Campobello Island with Susan Cline, Pete Colman
6:00 am - 10:00 am EDT
CANADA
This is a driving and walking tour within Roosevelt Campobello International Park. Campobello Island is a stopover for thousands of migrating birds. The habitat includes marine shoreland, salt and freshwater marshes, sphagnum bogs, coniferous, deciduous and mixed forest, forest edges, thickets, brushy and open fields, cliffs, banks, and ponds.
Event in EDT Time Zone

Blueberry Barrens Tour with Maurry Mills
7:00 am - 10:00 am EDT
WESTERN REGION
Woods, ponds, marshes, and creeks provide habitats for a variety of birds that can be found as we travel through the barrens. We often see Palm Warblers, Field Sparrows, Eastern Towhees, Brown Thrashers, and Eastern Bluebirds along the roads. Prairie Warblers are rare on the barrens and there are a few reports of Eastern Meadowlarks.

Moosehorn- North Trail with Bob Duchesne, Sandi McRae Duchesne
7:00 am - 10:00 am EDT
EASTERN REGION
The refuge is primarily managed as a breeding area for American woodcock, but it also attracts a nice diversity of warblers, thrushes, flycatchers, woodpeckers, raptors, and both ruffed grouse and spruce grouse.

Petit Manan Walk & Boat Trip  with Chris Bartlett, Doug Hitchcox  + $120.00
9:00 am - 1:30 pm EDT
WESTERN REGION
This event explores Petit Manan National Wildlife Refuge by land and by water. We will meet at the Acadia Puffin Cruise wharf in Steuben at 9:00 am to scan the shore for shorebirds and seabirds. We will then drive/carpool to one of the mainland trails to look for birds within the coastal spruce forest such as Cape May Warbler, Blackburnian Warbler, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, and Swainson’s Thrush.

Bag Lunch Options

MONDAY- Vegan Sandwich  + $18.00
6:00 am - 1:30 pm EDT
Pick-up at Festival HQ - PRE-ORDER REQUIRED


MONDAY- Roast Beef Sandwich  + $18.00
6:00 am - 1:30 pm EDT
Pick-up at Festival HQ - PRE-ORDER REQUIRED