Three rivers, an undeveloped pond, numerous Black-capped Chickadees, one Bald Eagle, many trees, roots, and fallen leaves. One watershed. This was my ...
Allen Island: Visiting Colby’s Island Campus
For decades, Allen and Benner islands off the Maine coast were the summer home of renowned American artist Andrew Wyeth and his wife/business manager ...
It Was Rare, I Was There: The Yellow-eyed Penguin
Last September, above a small, rocky beach in southern New Zealand, I saw what may be the rarest, most endangered penguin in the world: the ...
Opportunistic Birding
If I'm a birder, I'm an opportunistic birder. I rarely travel specifically to look for birds (see Steller's for the exception). However, I will look ...
Migration: A Flight for Survival
Migration. Generally, when I think of bird migration, I envision a neat line connecting, say, South America with North America, specifically Maine. ...
Totally Transcendent: Saddleback Solar Eclipse
Mind blowing, amazing, surreal, transcendent, what the f-? Try to describe the two and a half minutes of solar eclipse totality and it might sound ...
Bird of the Century: New Zealand’s Mullet-Headed Pūteketeke
I know that bird! Oh wait, it's John Oliver. The other day this appeared in my newsfeed: "With a boost from John Oliver, pūteketeke soars ...
Rescuing and Releasing: Marine Mammals of Maine
Big eyes, heart-shaped nose, whiskers—seals are the epitome of charismatic cuteness. So, I may be biased, but one of the best things I've seen this ...
Fogg Island Preserve: A Quiet and Understated Walk in the Woods
I think you begin knowing a place only after you've visited it multiple times, and ideally across seasons. So, when our local land trust, 7 Lakes ...
Finding the Green (and pink and yellow…) City Spaces
"Know what I like about you? Even when you go to a city you end up doing the most un-city thing." My husband said this and then fist-bumped me ...