Category: animals

Amazing sights / sites

We heard about the old Tannery site and the proposed rezoning of that area to industrial at the Planning Board meeting. Sam had toured the site with the selectboard not long ago, but I...

Wood frogs

I made a voice recording of wood frogs! I went for a long walk west and at two locations heard wood frogs croaking and quacking. This was very exciting as I’ve not heard them...

Visitors!

Video on YouTube: Visitors last night I’m not sure how to post a video effectively, but am so excited to report four – yes, four! – bears in the yard last night! They were...

duck brook

We took a bike ride in Acadia, with many other riders who had the same thought that today would be a good day to ride. I’ve never been to the Duck Brook Bridge. It...

White Admiral

This might be a new butterfly to me – the White Admiral. Limenitis arthemis. I saw a post from a nursery I follow on Instagram calling this an Admiral. I thought, oh no, that’s...

Joy

The coneflowers (echinacea) at the edge of my plot in the community garden are attracting a lot of butterflies and bees. Standing next to the flowers, I’m enveloped in a cloud of flight. It...

Moth and note on comments

I found this beautiful moth on a flower at the community garden. I used Google to identify it as a Virginia ctenucha moth. I love every feature of this insect: her dusky wings, iridescent...