The winter ice is slowly receding from the pond in the backwoods
Spring comes to the NoName pond
Maine
Cardinal in the pines
While we wait for Spring in Maine, we look back two years to a colorful visitor in our backyard
Woodpecker tree
From our archive we found some great examples of natural recycling out in the wild.
Sapsucker on duty
From our archives; a yellow-bellied sapsucker dutifully and methodically searched for tidbits on this tree, from the backwoods in Maine in 2018.
Mergansers on the Kennebec
Early this week while walking along the banks of the Kennebec River in Augusta, Maine, these common mergansers were traveling upstream. The reddish reflection comes from the brick buildings along Water street.
Barry is looking at you
We ventured into the back woods last Saturday and interrupted a barred owl as we approached the bog. He flew away right in front of us but we could not follow him due to the snow cover.
The next day, we went back to the area and kept an eye out in the tree tops, hoping to see the owl again.
Then, he was there, twenty feet up. We have heard and seen barred owls for years around here. It is much rarer to be in a spot where I can get a picture. About ten years ago when I first got an image of one, I named him “Barry.”
Sitting on the pond on a sunny day
Snow steps
Geese snacking on the stream
A pair of canada geese meander along the southern end of the Cobbosseecontee stream in Maine last year
Beaver dam update
The initial dam on the primary stream feeding the local “beaver bog” looked like this a few months ago. The beavers have added several other dams both downstream and, more significantly, upstream. The dams upstream have created a much larger area of flooding.
john's f-stop 