Weekly Notes – November 3, 2013

This week in Maine Nature News the season’s first snow, black bears are still active, woodpecker sightings and its the season for ‘tipping’?.

Weekly Notes – October 27, 2013

Moose sparing, live fish netting and state-wide frost are this week’s nature news and in public policy news links to public comments on Open Pit Mining regulations.

Weekly Notes – October 20, 2013

Fall is all about color and I have found some butterflies and blossoms still lingering in amongst the fallen leaves not to mention the brook trout are spawning.

Weekly Notes – October 6, 2013

Moose use an old skidder path for bedding and browse area. The achene of Bristly Buttercups hitch a ride on the author’s pantleg and doll’s eyes are silently keeping watch in the woods, all this and more in this weeks notes.

Weekly Notes – September 29, 2013

Red, Sugar, Mountain, Moose. Maple leaves are turning color, can you I.D all seven species found in Maine? Also see a satellite photo of night time light in Maine and all of Norther NE.

Weekly Notes – September 22, 2013

The fall equinox calls migrating birds south under the full moon.

Weekly Notes – September 8, 2013

Naturalized apple trees growing along an abandoned field edge provide abundant wildlife observation in this week’s Maine Nature News.

Butterflies, moths and caterpillars

It’s caterpillar season, did you know that Butterflies and Moths make up the order Lepidoptera? Learn the difference and discover a resource to identify these beautiful insects.

Weekly Notes – September 1, 2013

Calico lobsters, monarch butterflies on the decline and fall migration has begun in this week’s Maine Nature News.

Weekly Notes – August 25, 2013

A not so ordinary Monday in the office quickly takes the author outside for a week’s worth of nature observation.