Spring time in central Maine on the Cobboseecontee stream yesterday. We are seeing large flocks on a variety of water ways.

Spring has slowly arrived in central Maine and we have had an increasing number of black capped chickadees fluttering around these last few days.

We got about six inches of snow this morning in Maine but you wouldn’t know it from this image of a tufted titmouse from 2018

While we wait for Spring in Maine, we look back two years to a colorful visitor in our backyard

From our archives; a yellow-bellied sapsucker dutifully and methodically searched for tidbits on this tree, from the backwoods in Maine in 2018.

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.”