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Bar Harbor author chronicles birding adventure
BAR HARBOR Join field biologist, ornithologist and writer Rich MacDonald as he talks about his book “Little Big Year: Chasing Acadia’s Birds” on Thursday, May 6, at 7 p.m. on Zoom with the Jesup Memorial Library.
During 2018, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the passage of the migratory Bird Treaty Act, MacDonald undertook a year-long adventure to see and hear all the birds of Hancock County, which became his “Little Big Year.”
As a field biologist, MacDonald has studied the natural world, focusing on issues relating to climate change, forest ecology and birds. His work has taken him to the higher latitudes, both Arctic and Antarctic, across the boreal forests of North America from Newfoundland to Alaska, and around much of Europe and South America. He spent part of two winters studying birds in the Dominican Republic. In the course of his research, he has been involved in banding in excess of 30,000 bi
Even when itâs still cold out, Acadia has a lot to offer
Late winter and early spring mean parking spots, serenity, and a great escape.
By Diane Bair and Pamela Wright Globe Correspondent,Updated March 17, 2021, 12:00 p.m.
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Sand Beach, one of the most popular stops along Acadia s Loop Road, has plenty of space to roam in winter.Pamela Wright
It was a cold, crisp day, and the sand crunched under our boots as we walked the beach. There were few people. A young couple was walking a very energetic puppy. A mother and her teenage son scattered bocce balls, the bright-hued orbs sitting like foreign sea creatures amid the tendrils of bladder wrack and crushed seashells. Pink granite boulders, crusted with frozen sea spray, lined one end of the cove. The Great Head cliffs, its towering rock wall covered in rolling sheets of ice, bordered the other. We were nearly alone here on Sand Beach, one of the most visited destinations in Acadia National Park. In summer, you
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