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Common Tern, immature in flight vocalizing. Phippsburg, Maine summer, 2012   FLYday is an homage to what our feathered friends do...

This is the business part of a porcupine, the quills. In the top collage, the porkies in the trees are babies. The one in the middle is a...

An American Kestrel diving from its perch for prey. The kestrel is our smallest hawk. Phippsburg, Maine 2011 An homage to what our feather...

Harp or "Saddle" seal, male April 9, 2011 Phippsburg, Maine n Soaking up the sun on the Kennebec River, Phippsburg, Maine Harp s...

Gray Fox at Greyledge, Phippsburg   This is a Red fox also from Phippsburg. You can see its black stockings, absence of gray fur, and ...

Yellow crocuses in the snow Marmota monax, one of  a group of large, ground squirrels      W hen my children were young, they rode a bus ...

Inglorious End

W here I take the eagle's nest photographs is a lumber mill which dates back to 1801. It's a family operation and has been in the s...

I 'm not a classically 'wifely' sort of person. I'm not a doter nor coddler of children nor men, though there are some I lo...

       Amelanchier canadensis The Service Berries are in bloom. The diaphanous shrubs almost look like puffs of smoke across the marshe...

This Canada goose has a mate and they have been coming to the shore right in front of the house every day. I think they may be scouting out ...

T hese are White-winged Scoters and an American Herring Gull eating crabs. There are three kinds of Scoter, Black, Surf and the ones shown h...

A few days ago, I was "driving to town," as we say around here. That means going to Bath, which is fifteen miles north. During ...