Canada goose

More nest building

A cormorant gathers some finishing material for the nest.

A cormorant heads to their oceanside nest after pulling an old branch with leaves from a nearby fresh water pond

View from the bog spur trail on the Smithfield Plantation conservation land in Maine.

The end of winter on a Maine bog is highlighted from an April sunset. White turns to brown and snow is now just liquid water.

The bog’s edge is still emerging from the winter.

The sunset highlights the most interesting tree trunk in the bog.

A healthy song sparrow is caught in a tree near my mother-in-law’s bird feeder.

The back woods waits for the snow pack to go: two-and-a-half-feet to go.