Vol. 1, no. 42 Tuesday, December 17, 1996
Quick jumps: | This week's reports | Downeast Birdline -- discontinuation announcement | Meeting of new group: Greater Portland Naturalists Forum | Publication announcement: Biological Diversity in Maine: An Assessment of Status and Trends in the Terrestrial and Freshwater Landscape |
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This week's reports
Report format = Day, date, time. Location (Maine Atlas Map number) Report text. Initials of correspondent
Tuesday, December 10. Orono (Map 23) There was a road-killed woodchuck on Rangeley Road, U.Maine campus. I wonder if that is a late fall record for that species? J.K.M.
Tuesday, December 10. Columbia Falls (Map 25) Snow buntings, in smaller flocks of a dozen or two dozen, on the blueberry barrens, Columbia Falls. B.G.
Sunday, December 15. Orrington/Holden (Map 23) Porcupine in cavity of large white ash with ground surrounding den tree covered with a copious amount of scat, and another den tree nearby with porcupine scat on ground, Fields Pond Nature Sanctuary, Holden. B.G.
Sunday, December 15. Orrington/Holden (Map 23) Two trees with bear claw marks and bear scat nearby in a more isolated area of the Fields Pond Nature Sanctuary, Holden. B.G.
Friday, December 13. E. Orland (Map 23) Toddy Pond near the dam: About 50 goldfinches fed here most of the morning. A pair of America mergansers swam and dove midday. So far this month, as with the rest of the state, it is often warm, sometimes misty and raining, not sunny and starlit; this weather highlights late fall's beautiful shapes and lines in hues of grays and browns. W.D.
Downeast Birdline has ceased -- discontinuation announcement
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