If you’re not from Maine, you assume that April means spring. Flowers, green leaf buds, birds singing, the works, right? HAH. Some years, yes, a thaw will begin early and April will be lovely, but most of the time the ground is still frozen and the temperature hovers somewhere in the forties. That was the…
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10000 Birds – Bay Bluff Park is for the Birds
With all my recent traveling up and down the eastern United States, I have had almost zero time to bird in my “home territory.” During my first full week at home in months, I vowed to change that with a visit to a new (to me) park. Bay Bluffs Park in Pensacola, FL looks out…
Birding Maine – Addicted to Snowy Owls
Continued from “I Won’t Find Success until I Find a Snowy Owl.” It wasn’t the only Snowy Owl I saw that winter. I was addicted, I had to see more. Since my dad and I had struck out at Scarborough Marsh, we went to another owl stronghold, Biddeford Pool. It was an odd place for…
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