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Category Archives: Wildlife
Jellyfish

Jellyfish at the Quebec Aquarium, Quebec City, Canada.
Great Blue Heron

A great blue heron in search of food. Taken in my kayak on a back channel of Damariscotta Lake in Jefferson, Maine.
Blue Jay

A blue jay on a hemlock branch in our back yard. Last night brought a dusting of snow.
Hooded Mergansers

Male (left) and female (right) hooded mergansers. Hooded mergansers are the smallest of the three merganser species found in North America. They specialize in eating fish, and dive and swim underwater to catch their food by sight.
Check out the Audubon North American Birds for more on hooded mergansers.
Painted Turtle

This painted turtle was sunning itself on a log in a back channel of Damariscotta Lake in Jefferson, Maine.
White-Breasted Nuthatch

A white-breasted nuthatch at the bird feeder on our back deck.
Moose in Pond

This moose is just pulling its head up from eating plants on the bottom of the pond.
Loon

No nature photography blog in Maine would be complete without a loon! This is from Great Meadow Stream, a connector stream between North and Great Ponds in the Belgrade Lakes region.
Take-off

Hooded mergansers taking flight at McGrath Pond on a November morning.