Quoddy Nature Notes ~ Vultures

It’s safe to talk about the Turkey Vultures, they’ve all flown south for the winter.

Quoddy Nature Notes ~ Cormorant

Two species of Cormorant can be found in Maine year-round however, the Shag flies south each fall while the Great Cormorant can be found in the cold coastal waters throughout the winter months.

Quoddy Nature Notes ~ Thunderbird

The story of Thunderbird

Quoddy Nature Notes – Sapsuckers

Tap tap tap, is that a sapsucker pecking on my apple tree?

Quoddy Nature Notes – Turkeys

With the leaves falling and Thanksgiving barely a month away, my mind drifted over to turkeys.

Quoddy Nature Notes

Jumping grasshoppers! These ecological pests are food for a variety of species of birds and animals including humans in some parts of the world!

QUODDY NATURE NOTES – Cicadas

Cicadas certainly are an interesting bug that fit nicely with our present affection for stuff like, ‘shocking’, ‘scary’ and, ‘ the world is going to be destroyed by aliens’.

Quoddy Nature Notes – Ready for Winter?

Quoddy Nature Notes – Ready for Winter?

QUODDY NATURE NOTES – Tachinid Flies

Nature is a pretty wondrous system, but not all of the time what we as people would consider nice, whatever the definition of ‘nice’ is.

Quoddy Nature Notes – Juniper

Juniper                 Juniper, Juniperus communis, is a neat little plant we have growing here in the Quoddy region.  As a matter of fact, it has the largest range of any woody plant in the world, ranging across most of the Northern Hemisphere.  With that big of a range one would think there would be many […]