 Daybreak. I'm on one of my favorite logging roads in interior Washington County up near Basque Hegan Lake. I need four species here, desperately. Needs Bruce Grouse, Boreal Chickadee, Canada Jay, and Blackback Woodpecker. They're all along this road but they're hard to find so I'm after them. Lots of hermit thrushes, winter ran, purple finch, yellow rump warbler just over my head, ruby crowned kinglet, there goes a red-breasted nut hatch. Seriously, I'm gonna have to share this road. That is my third and fourth northern water thrush, pay dirt. And not just one of them, the pair is here. They're nesting in this area. Blackback Woodpeckers, they're hard to get. They don't get south of Bangor. They're mostly in spruce fir forest in the northern part of the state and they can be wicked elusive. So in the World Series of birding we have to find more birds than any other team anywhere in 17 states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Have you ever seen so many palm warblers?