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increase font size Amy Calder: Why is the robin behaving like that? It's amazing what we can learn about birds if we just take the time to watch and listen, Amy Calder writes. Share 5 of 5 A robin sits on a limb Wednesday before taking flight and repeatedly flying into the window of a Waterville house that neighbors Morning Sentinel reporter Amy Calder. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel Robins are curious creatures, or so I thought before I talked to a bird expert. What prompted me to consult an ornithologist? I observed what I thought was unusual behavior on the part of a robin Sunday as I s...

Amy Calder: For the love of animals, and meat consumption It's interesting that we humans can be repulsed by the sight of animals being slaughtered yet we love to consume the meat they provide. Share I got an email from a reader in Troy about a news story I wrote after interviewing a beaver trapper. “Wow,” it said. “What an awful article on trapping beavers!” I expected at least one such response. When it comes to animals, people can be very passionate. To be transparent, it was not a story I sought out. One of our photographers happened on the trapper in China one day and took a ser...

Amy Calder: ‘Brother, can you spare a …?’ Back in the 1950s and '60s you could buy a lot more for a dime than you can now, Amy Calder writes. Share We were driving across Memorial Bridge over the Kennebec River in Augusta the other day when Phil remembered paying a 10-cent toll to cross it in the 1950s and ’60s. I pondered that for a minute. “It took a lot of dimes to amount to much,” I said. “A thousand cars to garner a mere $100.” Of course, a dime was worth a lot more in those days. When I was growing up in Skowhegan, the ice cream man came around in a pudgy white truck, a...

Amy Calder: Seeking answers to her daughter’s last days from 3,000 miles away Judy Schwartz of California was notified by police in January that her daughter, who had been missing for a year, was found dead in Waterville, Maine, sending Schwartz on a mission to find out everything she could about her daughter's last year of life. Share Judy Schwartz still can’t believe her daughter, Jennifer Lynn Dulin, is gone. Schwartz, who lives in northern California, filed a missing person’s report more than a year ago after Dulin, 43, took a road trip and never returned. Jennifer Lynn Dulin, repo...

Amy Calder: Celebrating national pet day during the pandemic The world would be a sadder and lonelier place without our pets, and celebrating National Love Your Pet Day on Saturday gives us a chance to honor and pamper them, Amy Calder writes. Share In honor of National Love Your Pet Day on Saturday, allow me to introduce our two cats, Bitsy and Thurston. Without them, life would be a lot more dour during this pandemic. The cats are our salvation, when it seems as if the pandemic may never end. They keep us active, waking us up every morning, crying to go outdoors and expecting action.