A gull takes flight in the surf on a foggy morning at Popham Beach.
Tag Archives: Birds
Great Blue Heron Nest
Great blue heron coming back to the nest.
Mourning Doves
A pair of mourning doves in our trees.
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.
Red-Winged Blackbird
A red-winged blackbird in the Belgrade Marsh at the southern end of Messalonskee Lake (Snow Pond), photographed from my kayak.
White-Breasted Nuthatch
A white-breasted nuthatch at the bird feeder on our back deck.
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.
light on the trail 