The largest pond in Evergreen Cemetery is home to many wildlife and birds. The Evergreen Cemetery is an ideal place for bird watchers during spring migration. Brianna Soukup/Staff Photographer Where can you see birds? I expect some readers will take issue with me for omitting their favored spots, but nonetheless, I have compiled my top dozen birding sites in southern and central Maine.
I am sure that each of the sites will provide great birding. My choices were influenced by a desire to spread out the sites across the southern half of Maine and to identify sites where unusual species for Maine can be found. EVERGREEN CEMETERY This is a must-visit site in Portland, particularly during spring migration in Maine.
The expansive cemetery has well-spaced trees, providing habitat for forest birds but visibility for birders. Several small ponds offer habitat and water for many songbirds. On a May morning, the cemetery is crawling with birds and birders.
Most birders start around the ponds where newly arrived migrants are slaking their thirst. It’s a bit of a party and birders readily share their sightings of rarities as groups move from place to place to see that vagrant hooded warbler or yellow-throated warbler. To get there, take Exit 6B off I-295 onto Forest Avenue.
Continue for 1.4 miles to the eighth light, turning left onto Walton Street. Turn right onto Stevens Avenue when Walton Street ends and turn immediately left into the cemetery.
If you have a little extra time, nearby.
