sandpiper at Potters Brook
Maine
Black vulture overhead
Beaver stream
Last fall the local beaver population started damming the stream between the original beaver bog and the middle bog.
Bridge over Potter’s brook
The Plains road bridge crossing the reflective Potter’s Brook in Maine.
Fishing season is open
An osprey attempts to catch lunch (came up empty) on a dive into Potter’s brook near Upper Pleasant pond in Litchfield, Maine. This was my first visit to the Webber-Rogers Farmstead Conservation Area, a property of the Kennebec Land Trust.
Young osprey over the stream
A young osprey perched on a branch overlooking the Cobbosseecontee stream in Litchfield, Maine today.
Black and white, and a little blue
Along a theme of “anything that flies,” here is another .
Patriotic dragonfly
Goldfinch at the bog
A ruby meadowhawk on the rocks?
We had an earlier post with this same specie, identified as a ruby meadowhawk dragonfly. Again, while waiting for a hummingbird, my iPhone caught this guy on a garden border rock. We have plenty of dragon flies not afraid of the cameras.
john's f-stop 