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.

From the Saturday morning visit by our summer visitor; this is a couple more shots of this busy little bird.

We waited a couple hours outside on the front steps this morning hoping one of our summer residents came by for a snack. We got ready with a smaller, lighter camera with a tripod. It soon showed a “battery Low” warning. Went and got my more robust rig and waited. Suddenly, there it was!

We caught a hummingbird sampling the jewel weeds along our driveway last week.