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Showing posts with label wren. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wren. Show all posts
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Sunday, April 3, 2016
April 3: Spring snow
Just as we began this morning's hike up Mount Battie, the snow started to fall and the wind started to howl. We three women and the dog accumulated snow as we walked quickly to keep warm against the wind. Fortunately the inclement weather didn't quiet the season's first sapsuckers and Winter Wren.
Snow falling faster.
Long trilled song of the wren
from somewhere in the woods.
Snow falling faster.
Long trilled song of the wren
from somewhere in the woods.
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
February 16: Wren
Yesterday, snow and temperatures hovered around zero; today, rain and nearly 50 degrees. Even so, I wasn't expecting to hear a Carolina Wren calling loudly across the street when I left for work this morning. A southern bird that was a real rarity in Maine when I was a kid, over the past decade or so the resilient Carolina Wren has begun to settle in here; more and more seem to be wintering over. But it's not yet as established and abundant as the cardinal, another southern species that made its way north, or the Mourning Dove, which we take for granted now but which was an exciting sight for Maine birders back in the 1950s.
trilling loudly in the rain
sounds grateful for the thaw.
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Saturday, July 18, 2015
July 18: Quest
Chased an alleged Yellow-billed Loon reported yesterday on Green Lake in Ellsworth. No luck, but spent a lovely morning with two friends scanning the waters from the pine-shaded dock owned by a random nice woman who graciously invited us to watch for it from her property.
No rare bird found.
Instead: wren's song, blueberries,
loon chicks, wide-open lake.
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