A flight of mallards takes off from Woodbury Pond last weekend.

Our evening visit to the pond on Monday disturbed the local mallard community. After waiting a half hour, they started coming back.

Our visit to Woodbury pond this evening brought us a view of the local loon contingent.

After my hummingbird feeder broke and the flowering plants seemed dull this year, I did not think we would see many birds. We did have a couple and after waiting with my camera for hours, we got lucky.

Another look at the cormorant at the dock’s edge in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, last weekend.

A cormorant dries its wings at the end of a dock along the Boothbay Harbor waterfront last Sunday

A cormorant gets lucky at lunchtime in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, on Sunday. A returning fisherman threw a fish to this beggar of a bird.