
I camped at Kidney Pond in Baxter. I took one of the Park kayaks out just before sunset and saw this loon.

I camped at Kidney Pond in Baxter. I took one of the Park kayaks out just before sunset and saw this loon.

A cow moose emerges from the water in Sandy Stream Pond in Baxter State Park after eating plants from the bottom of the pond.

A dun skipper on cow vetch.

Osprey are a common sight around ponds.

A deer peeks through grasses as I kayaked on Great Meadow Stream connecting North and Great Ponds.

A snapping turtle on the trail passing a beaver pond in Maine’s Kennebec Highlands.


Deer running on shoreline in Great Meadow Stream in Maine’s Belgrade Lakes region.

A gull takes flight in the surf on a foggy morning at Popham Beach.

Great blue heron coming back to the nest.

A pair of mourning doves in our trees.