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The glorious blue-sky summer day on Sunday lured us to take a ride down to Pemaquid Harbor. The tide was near high when we arrived in the late afternoon, and the temperature still warm enough for kids (and a few adults) to be taking quick dips into...

Quiet. Deep, profound quiet. A quiet, unbroken by low grumbling of distant traffic or the white noise of an overhead jet. No buzzing lawnmowers or sirens. No dogs barking or brakes screeching. That was what we experienced this past late-July weekend...

Maine gets a good share of very rare birds. Some of them keep coming back. Over the past few weeks, Maine’s ocean and offshore islands have played host to at least two exceptionally unusual species. We’ve written about one of them, the tufted puffin...

Maine gets a good share of very rare birds. Some of them keep coming back. Over the past few weeks, Maine’s ocean and offshore islands have played host to at least two exceptionally unusual species. We’ve written about one of them, the tufted puffin...

Maine gets a good share of very rare birds. Some of them keep coming back. Over the past few weeks, Maine’s ocean and offshore islands have played host to at least two exceptionally unusual species. We’ve written about one of them, the tufted puffin...

The songs of birds give great pleasure to most people. The lilting warbles and trills of that early spring song sparrow can give a little lift to the heart as the snow melts and the daylight hours lengthen. Yet while we humans find songs uplifting...

More often than not, the quiet ambles of our dog walks seem to yield some of our most interesting bird experiences. That was the case yet again last night. We took our little black dog out for one last stroll around the house before bedtime at about...

The heat was oppressive, like a mid-July day, not like what we are used to on the second day of June here in Maine. But as we stepped outside to walk the dog in the morning, there was an unmistakable squeaky brake sound emanating from the thick,...

Like many people on the recent very warm, sunny Memorial Day weekend, we decided to head to the beach, where the temps were markedly cooler. We went to a spot that is a favorite of many Mainers including ourselves, Reid State Park, at the end of the...

The heavy rains last week in Central Maine brought some major flooding across many parts of our region. By one estimate, a month’s worth of rain fell in about 24 hours. As that water collected upstream and began flowing together from various...