LUBEC: Maine's Best Kept Winter Birding SECRET.

Lubec is in the farthest corner of Downeast Maine, right next to Canada. It's an awesome birding hotspot year-round. It's particularly good in winter, because there are so many good spots to find wintering eiders, scoters, loons, buffleheads, long-tailed ducks, and red-breasted mergansers. Great cormorants are present. Black guillemots are always nearby. Razorbills and murres come in close.

[@RetreatfarmFarmvilleVirginia]

When the Tide changes in spring and summer at the Lubec boat ramp, there is an incredible shrimp concentration in the rough waters coming to a sharp turn at the jetty. I've been standing on the very end of the manmade jetty and seen Seals come up to the top with a packed full mouth of 2 -3 inch long glass shrimp. and baby eels. And of course because of a dozen or so Seals being in one spot you might see a good sized Great white shark in the area. (Top mid channel of Bridge looking down).

[@Trish-j2y]

Thank you

[@CobscookBayMusic]

Yes - busload of Song Sparrows showed up this morning.
Great intro to Lubec - thanks! I need to get out more...

[@leobachand8408]

Great area!!!

[@timwalker1955]

Could some of the sparrows be “Ipswich” Savannah sparrows? I saw 5 yesterday on Plum Island in Massachusetts.

[@chickadee04287]

My husband and I love to camp at Cobscook Bay. Just a short and scenic trip to Quoddy. Such a beautiful area.