For the last few weeks, we’ve been dreaming of a gray Christmas, but many birders have already had such a dream come true. On December 3 a Gray Kingbird was found near Fortunes Rocks Beach in Biddeford Pool, only about two miles from where another rare flycatcher, an Ash-throated Flycatcher had been found before that. Read More
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My Maine This Week: Kristen Lindquist
NRCM member Kristen Lindquist of Camden, Maine, shares some photos she took recently while exploring Clark Island Preserve in St. George, along Maine’s Midcoast. Learn more about the Preserve, which is accessible by foot across a bridge. Thank you, Kristen, for sharing your beautiful Maine photos! Fun fact: Kristen has also written some of NRCM’s Read More
Blue Jays Doing Pull Ups? Sort of
We all know birds are clever. How they manage to build those beautiful nests, for example, or find their way during migration are questions posed by poets and prophets—and scientists—for centuries. The more we watch them, the more we find out just how clever they are. Blue Jay on feeder. Photo by Konni Wells Mom Read More
My Maine This Week: Kelly Magalis
Kelly Magalis of Brunswick, Maine, shares her photo of an immature Double-crested Cormorant who “decided to hitch a ride and dry off on [her] friend’s kayak while [they] paddled around Scarborough salt marshes” this summer! Wow! Share your Maine wildlife photos with us at nrcm@nrcm.org.
My Maine This Week: David Small
“An annual trip to checkout the migrating shorebirds at the Petit Manan National Wildlife Refuge resulted in my finding several flocks of semipalmated plovers and semipalmated sandpipers foraging on the incoming tide,” writes NRCM member and frequent My Maine This Week photographer David Small of Old Town, Maine. “They blend in so well with the Read More
Congratulations, You’re a Birder!
“I’m not a birder, but I do enjoy my bird feeders.” We hear this a lot when we’re out and about, birding at a preserve or at a coastal overlook or some other place where others are out enjoying the same place. The conversation usually starts by them asking what we’re seeing for birds, and Read More
Why Do Forests Matter for Birds?
We know you know that forests are incredibly important for birds. You learned in school (we hope!) that they provide homes for birds, and provide the food they need to raise young and for successful travels to and from their breeding and wintering grounds. If you’ve hiked in a forest, or paddled a stream or river Read More
Five Years, Five Wildlife Reasons to Visit Katahdin Woods & Waters National Monument
If you love Maine’s wildlife and haven’t yet been to the Katahdin Woods & Waters National Monument (KWW), we really encourage you to go. The reasons are countless. It’s located in the heart of Maine’s beautiful North Woods, for one, with the majestic peak of Katahdin in view just about everywhere, it seems. For another, Read More
My Maine This Week: Stewart Guilford
We have another new My Maine This Week photographer this week. Welcome, Stewart Guilford of Sabattus, Maine! Stewart captured these two beautiful photos of these amazing birds, both on the hunt for lunch!
