Here is a Gray Catbird pausing for a split second before reaching up to eat a berry. Gray Catbirds leave Maine in the winter, but can be found year round along the Atlantic coast from Massachusetts to Colombia.
Image of the month – January 2026
Tag: fall
Image of the month – November 2025
Belted Kingfishers can be found year-round in southern Maine. Males, like this individual, have a dark blue collar. Females have the dark blue collar, and a rusty orange band below it. Belted Kingfishers, as their name suggests, mostly eat fish. Occasionally however, they eat foods like amphibians, young birds of other species, and berries.
Image of the month – September 2024
SwampSparrows (Melospiza georgiana) are one of 33 species of birds I’ve seen in my pokeberry bushes. Swamp Sparrows are medium distance migrants, never leaving North America. They have longer legs than other sparrows, and will sometimes wade in shallow water when foraging.
Image of the month – November 2023
The white-tailed deer is the most common deer species in the United States. This individual was one of several behind my house on an 18-degree morning this month.
Image of the month – October 2023
Hermit Thrushes (Catharus guttatus) are the last of their genus to migrate south in the winter. This individual is one of several that have been feasting on pokeberries in my yard for the past couple of days.
Image of the month – September 2023
A cabbage white (Pieris rapae), a member of the family known as the whites-and-yellows, feeds on smooth blue asters (Symphyotrichum laeve) at sunset.