From my visit to the great marsh on Mason Island in March 2016. This osprey mom was keeping two chicks hidden in her nest while keeping me in her sights.
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Spruce down
Every visit into the nearby woods yields more scenes of big trees culled out of the ground by the strongest winds in decades.
Good morning first snow
The moon looks down on the first snow of the 2017-2018 winter.
Low tide on the Kennebec
Looking south (downstream) on the Kennebec river at Augusta, Maine. It is low tide on a quiet early December mid-morning. Augusta is thirty miles from the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Maine and is the farthest point north where tidal effects are noticeable.
Autumn wood by the stone wall
The late day sun reflects on an old tree stump slowly decomposing along a stone wall built over a hundred years ago.
Getting ready for winter
We found some time in this late fall, daylight challenged time to recon the far bog. We are encouraged by these beaver-customized trees near the beaver den. After a summer of extreme drought, we have been apprehensive about the impact on our beaver neighbors.
Maine tree fall 7
On our walk through the Smithfield Plantation we found numerous large trees blown over and these were only the ones visible from the trail. The conservation land is hundreds of acres and the number of affected trees may reach 100.
Maine tree fall 6
More in our wind storm aftermath series. We surveyed the forest in the Smithfield Plantation conservatory and found numerous oak trees blown over or leaning.
Maine tree fall 5
While the vision of large tree trunks fully uprooted is dramatic, the scope of damage to the branches and leaves across the woods is equally sobering.
Maine tree fall 4
Another fallen tree. The root ball on this evergreen almost reaches ten feet high.
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