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It’s that time of year again. Back-to-school shopping for many families. Last-days-of-summer camping trips. And time for bald birds to begin making appearances. Although we haven’t seen any ourselves yet this year, the MaineBirds listserve has...
Last week, as we were walking our dog during a stay at brother Andrew’s camp on beautiful Parker Pond, the quiet of our walk on the dead-end gravel road was shattered by a emphatic rattling noise coming from the surrounding forest. We paused and...
At 10 p.m. on June 27, while out walking the dog, we very clearly heard a single, rather loud nocturnal flight call of a wood thrush overhead in the dark. Hearing any bird calling as it flies over at night in migration always seems like a miracle...
In our modern age of technology, more and more people are tempted to just use an app like Merlin (from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology) to identify the bird sounds they hear. But if you really want to learn and remember the identities of...
Once or twice a summer, we have the good fortune of riding on the Hardy Boat out of New Harbor, Maine, to Eastern Egg Rock, five miles offshore. The stars of the show are, of course, the Atlantic puffins that were reintroduced to the island by the...