The birds are waiting for spring time like the rest of us
Maine
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Bufflehead cruiser
Among the Canada geese, mallards, and goldeneye congregating along the shore last week was also a bufflehead duck.
Geese flyby
A graceful pair of Canada geese cruise by looking for a place to land.
Spring goldeneye
The Maine winter weather has been slow to leave and this has reduced our outdoor time. We were quite surprised to get sorta close to this common goldeneye duck species this week.
Ducks waiting for Spring
The ducks and geese are gathering along river, stream, and pond shorelines. Ice out is still in the future and open water is appearing only slowly.
Natural geometry on ice
Gull on ice
Wood and ice float down river
Last week there was enough thawing on the Kennebec river in central Maine to break up the winter ice and expose the variety of wood trapped over the winter.
Ice jam on the Kennebec river
john's f-stop 