Maine lighthouse

The Marshall’s Point lighthouse near Port Clyde, Maine, during changing weather along the Maine mid-coast on July-1.

Cat-tail garden

A female osprey flies over while awaiting our departure from near her nest near the Mystic River in Connecticut

Bogs are curious mixtures of life and death; greens and browns reflect the reality.

Nothing fancy this week: a solitary blackbird scans the bog for a late afternoon snack

Barry the barred owl crossed our path the other day; we have seen him over four times this season, so we have named him.

A fern begins to reveal its leaves in the post fiddle-head stage

A female yellow-bellied sapsucker visits a gray birch near the house on Saturday.

An old tree has been worked over by a large woodpecker (or more than one). We have seen a large pileated woodpecker in the area but not recently.