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Animal Oddities Wild Turkeys, Springtime Lovers American Crow American Mink American Robin Animal Tracking Atlantic Sea Scallop Autumn Bald Eagle Beautiful Buttonbush Beaver Belted Kingfisher Binoculars Black Bear Black-capped Chickadee Blue Jay Bobcat Brook Trout Browntail Moth Bufflehead Canada Goose Cattails Chipmunk Chipping Sparrow Close Encounters of the Wild Kind Common Eider Common Snapping Turtle Common Winterberry Cooper’s Hawk Coyote Dark-eyed Junco Dormant Eastern Bluebird Eastern Gray Squirrel Eastern Larch Evolution in the 21st Century Fiddle Time Fisher Flying Squirrel For the Birds Fox Garter Snake Gray Catbird Great Blue Heron Green Wood Mystery Groundhog Harvest Time Herring Gull Honey bees Horseshoe Crab Horseshoe Crabs II Hummingbird Moth Indigo Bunting Insects at Risk Jellies Jumping Worms Just Itching Lights of the North Little Brown Bat Little Red Rocket Lobster Long-tailed Duck Meadow Vole Mermaid of Harpswell Minke Whale and Friends Moving Month Muskrat Nest Boxes for Birds Northern Cardinal Northern Leopard Frog Ocean Sunfish Osprey Oysters on the Rebound Pelagic Peregrine Falcon Pileated Woodpecker Piping Plover Pollinators Porcupine Preconceived Notions Raccoon Riding Out the Winter River Otters Rockweed Roseate Tern Ruby-Throated Hummingbird Ruffed Grouse Sandhill Crane Settled Down for a Long Winter’s Nap Sharp-Shinned Hawk Skunk Smelting Snowy Owl Soft-shell Clams Spotted Salamander Spring Peepers Spying in the Dark The Apple Tree The Duck that Loved me The Eastern or Taiga Moose The Sugar Maple Toads Tracking a Harpswell Heron Tree Swallow Tufted Titmouse Vagrants of Winter Vernal Pools Virginia Opossum Water Lilies Weasel Confusion Weasels Wetlands Whales, a Story of Change White-Tailed Deer, part one White-Tailed Deer, part two Wild Turkey Wildlife at Ease Wildlife Encounters Wildlife in Paradise Wildlife Mysteries Wildlife Problems Winter Moth Yellow-rumped Warbler Red-winged Blackbird Sucker! The Lone Star Tick Warbler Time!

No, this is not a story about oysters recovering from broken hearts. It is, however, a story of a resilient species making a quiet comeback in the cool waters around Harpswell. And if you are like me, the more oysters the better, especially with a nice dry Sancerre or Chablis at hand. Eastern oysters (Crassostrea… Read more

If you spend any time outdoors in Harpswell during the spring and summer months, you are sure to enjoy the sights and sounds of one of Nature’s most beautiful birds of prey. Our town has perfect habitat for ospreys, since they invariably nest near fresh or salt water. Look for large piles of sticks perched… Read more

Rob Bryan photo Watch these creatures in the wild, or spend time working and playing with them as I did long ago, and you will gain an appreciation for these ultimate survivors. There are 12 species of true foxes around the world, ranging from the common red fox, the more elusive gray fox, to the… Read more

Under the snows of winter, Mother Nature is preparing a seasonal treat for us as we eagerly anticipate mud season. Ok, I was stretching things a bit since mud season is generally viewed as the worst time of year in Maine. But the snow pack and rains that will follow are vital parts of the… Read more

Red squirrel tracks in the snow. If you want to play detective, there is a much you can learn from reading footprints left by some of the wild inhabitants of Harpswell. As a boy, I had the run of thousands of acres of land near my home. The woods and fields were filled with a… Read more

Lane Soltesz photo Sorry to disappoint bourbon drinkers, but this article is about those long-legged, tall-necked birds you see in Harpswell fields or sometimes at your bird feeder. It is common to see up to 20 birds in a flock, most of them hens and their young. The more sharp eyes peeled for predators, the… Read more

Now that winter is here, welcome back one of Harpswell’s more spectacular birds. The largest duck in Maine is known as the “common eider” (somateria mollisima) to distinguish it from the more unusual king and spectacled eiders, but there is nothing common about these beauties. A full grown adult can reach 28″ long, with a… Read more

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