Maine Nature News

Vol. 2, no. 37, Tuesday, September 16, 1997

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This week's reports

Report format = Day, date, [time]. Location (Maine Atlas Map number) Report text. Initials of correspondent.

Saturday, September 14. Bar Harbor (Map 16) Three Green Frogs were seen at various points along the south bank of Cannon Brook. One measured 3 inches from snout to vent. A few American toads were also seen, all small enough to be from this year's crop. They were more wary than the frogs.
A bald eagle was heard calling several times as it soared over the woods on the South face of Cadillac Mountain, near the Featherbed. The latter is a mountain pond which is seasonally dry. Its bed is covered with tall grasses standing in the residual mud. F.W.

Monday, September 15. Caratunk (Map 30) I noticed across the pond on Sunday that some [fall foliage] color was beginning to dot the mountainside. It will be another couple of weeks to reach peak, I suspect. :) B.Y.

Monday, September 15. Fort Kent (Map 67) Yes, but it is very spotty, not really whole trees yet but only parts of the tree's foliage here and there. The hills are still predominantly green. It really seems that fall colors are coming significantly later this year than in the past. The nights have been relatively mild, we haven't had anything even approaching frost, perhaps that is the reason. E.T.

Monday, September 15. Fort Kent (Map 67) From Fort Kent to Ashland (50 miles) the foliage has changed noticeably. I would say that 20% of the foliage has changed. The other trees are certainly a lighter shade of green. Peak foliage is usually the last few days of September. Leaves start to fall in big numbers the first week of October. D.R.

Wild Blueberry report for September 10-16, 1997

Fruit gone by: Hancock, Penobscot, Waldo and Washington Counties
No reports: other Maine counties

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