Last month when we visited the Gardiner landing along the Kennebec river in central (sort of) Maine, we caught a flock of gulls checking out the local citizens, the ice blocks flowing downstream, and the prospects that Spring was really arriving.
Back in March when the ice on the Kennebec river was breaking up, I managed to find a flock of gulls contemplating the change in season. Here a youngster is keeping their eye on me.
Last fall a large tree fell into Woodbury Pond. The ice during the winter encased it and created this unusual image, caught during a warm late winter day as fog hovered over the pond.
We have reached eleven months of Coronia and two-thirds of another Maine winter. We are expecting the slow return of Spring, Summer, and the Fall. We hope to start seeing more birds and fewer tracks in the snow to mark the end of Winter.
We found a very interesting group of tracks of all sizes the other day on our hike.
As our weather meanders deeper into winter, our time in the woods gets shorter and shorter. It doesn’t go above freezing anymore. More and more forest life leaves only their tracks and most of them are mysteries.
Kitty cat
With tiny tracks
Walks through the winter
This could be a progress chart on pandemic impacts or snow on our garage roof.
We have had little chance so far this winter in getting some good bird pictures. But a little light snow and some time in the back woods did provide us with some “almost” bird images!
From our 2017 trip along the Inside Passage in southeastern Alaska.
john's f-stop 