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     I am reposting this because the Dancing Cowbird showed up yesterday for the first time since I originally posted about them in 201...

Female Pileated Woodpecker R ecently, I spent three consecutive days on Hermit Island from six forty-five to ten AM. Hermit Island is o...

This Northern Flicker is female. Males have a black moustache.      M y parents had some knowledge of birds, which they imparted to us ...

"Ya know, Randy - you embarrass the whole birding community when you do that."   " Help! I've fallen and I can't ge...

Migrating Snowy egrets T he weather has been very unsettled the past few days. It has changed from beaming sunshine to pouring rain several ...

A female, Ruby-throated Hummingbird in the care of my handsome husband. Some of you know me well enough to ask if the hummingbird is alive....

"Go home, Rickie!" "I'm tellin' Mom you were hangin' out on the railroad tracks!"      B irders use lots o...

Common Tern with a mouthful of Sand Lances Common Terns, adults and juveniles feasting on Sand Lances. "Mom! Got any tartar sauce for ...

  "Hear me laugh! Hear me roar!" Seriously, folks: to hear me laugh, click here Laughing_Gull/sounds "It's not sensor...

T hese are Barn swallows . I took these photographs in Phippsburg while sitting in my car. I could have watched them all day, but did not. ...

Female Yellow Warbler - Phippsburg, Maine  August 2010      I have a dilemma. I posted these photographs to the Maine Bird List Serve (an ...

Top left and right: Semipalmated sandpiper, Lower left: Spotted sandpiper, Lower right: White-rumped sandpiper. The photos were all taken on...