A beautiful Father’s Day weekend graced the state of Maine with warm temperatures and mostly blue skies. Here is hoping all dads out there had a great day with their children. Birding around the area was spectacular once again. Eastern Point Sanctuary and Goose Rocks Beach were the focus this weekend, with plenty of birds to [...]
Continuing from the previous article. Late Sunday morning, my wife and I went to the Fuller Farm which is west of Scarborough, Maine. We walked the trails looking for birds and other wildlife. The Bobolinks were absent, but a Chestnut-Sided Warbler was seen and others heard throughout the woods. The time of day kept our [...]
Continuing from the previous article, Sunday morning brought a pleasant surprise when we arrived at Vines Landing in Biddeford Pool. At slack tide, hundreds of fish were surfacing in the Gut and Common Terns along with Bonaparte Gulls were having their fill of the tasty treats. We stood in amazement as the Terns hovered and then [...]
I am going to do things a little different this week. Because of the spectacular birding adventure we had today, I am going to post several articles daily so I don’t overwhelm this site with a bunch of bird pictures in one article. This first installment will focus on the very cooperative Semipalmated Sandpipers we encountered on [...]
During the month of June, I will be transferring this site to a new server that will be better able to handle the bandwidth issues I have been having. There may be frequent outages of Birding In Maine, but I ask that you please bear with me in this endeavor. As many of you have [...]
Maybe the heading of this article is misleading, as the weather played a role in the lack of birds we saw while in Pennsylvania over the Memorial Day weekend. The weather was hot, with a high of 92 F. and humidity in the 70 percent range on both Saturday and Sunday. Mornings started out foggy, [...]