Colors are creeping into and out of the woods
maine woods
Tree hugger
For all the hard work and preparation that sometimes is required to get pleasing images of wild life, there are days when you get out of your car in your driveway and you have a picture. This was one of those days: after running into the house and grabbing the camera, this pileated woodpecker kept at work on one of our trees.
Bog tree stand
Twenty or more years ago, this open space was part of the forest seen in the background. The creek that winds it way through here was dammed by beavers and the open space now filled with grasses, bushes, and dead tree trunks became a lake. Among the grasses and bushes are small trees that will grow into a forest again (if the humans don’t develop it first).
Pond reflections II
From the other side of the no name pond.
Pond reflections I
Canoe in waiting
An old canoe awaits another trip while resting near the Madagascal stream.
Grand falls
The Grand Falls on the Passadumkeag stream in central Maine last week.
Blackbird on the bog
On the Smithfield Plantation (land reserved as a nature conservancy in Litchfield, ME), there is swampy bog where this blackbird always appears during the summer season to get his picture taken.
Bog trees in summer
My favorite stand of dead trees doesn’t look much different in summer as compared to the winter.
Nuthatch meal time
After waiting twenty minutes for some action on the far bog, this white-breasted nuthatch showed up. After checking out this old, dead tree, he found some food as I prayed for him to get out of the shadows.
john's f-stop 