Cindy Songbird

Love

Love

Love

Love

Spreading a little love across the universe from Portland, Maine because we could all use it right about now. #maine #valentinebandit #hearts #love

He was a wonderful speaker. His book, Mycorrhizal Planet is excellent.

Great gray owl

Great gray owl

Great gray owl

Boreal owl

It’s SuperbOwl time! #superb🦉#owls #birds

Cooper’s hawk

I was wondering where all the birds were this morning. We had several hundred yesterday - many species with the highest counts for the yard in years. Cooper’s Hawk’s sitting outside my kitchen window guarding the feeders. #birds #Coopershawk #birdsofprey

Snowy owl

It snowed. Digiscoped from a distance. #snow #snowyowl #birding

And…barely a boardwalk in Baxter State Park, ME. The boards crossed a stream, then led through an exquisite spruce forest.

Bamboo the shihtzu on boardwalk

My best girl Boo on the Saltmarsh Trail at Bombay Hook, DE. Hard to believe she passed away at 16.5 from congestive heart failure a few weeks after this pic was taken. She had a heart murmur for several years but she still had lots of spunk for an old gal. Sweetest girl 💔

Barnacle goose

Barnacle goose

Barnacle goose

Barnacle goose

Barnacle geese in NJ. #birds

My yard

Cute cats

Varied thrush

Pemaquid point

#yearinreview
September #garden
October - #cats
November - Varied Thrush in Brooklyn #rarebird
December - the power of the ocean #pemaquid
#HappyNewYear

My sweet Boo RIP

Atlantic puffin

Pony on beach

Moose

#yearinreview
May - my sweet Boo, she passed a few weeks after this pic was taken 💔
June - Puffins on Machias Seal Island
July - pony on Assateague beach
August- moose in north Maine woods
#2025

Snowy yard

Great gray owl

Laurentian divide

Osprey

#yearinreview
January - snowy yard #snow
February - great gray owl #owl #saxzimbog
March- Boundary waters Laurentian divide #minnesota
April - Osprey #fingerlakes
#2025inreview

Vulpes vulpes mating

Vulpes vulpes mating

Red foxes in mating ritual behind my house. Images about 20x zoomed through a window so not to disturb them. #redfox #loveisintheair

Cooper’s hawk

Cooper’s hawk

Cooper’s hawk

Merry Christmas from this young Cooper’s Hawk that showed up this morning. Zoomed and shot through my kitchen window.

Right about now is usually when activity picks up.

I hear this year is supposed to be an off year. An ornithologist I met last year said that was the biggest irruption year in 20 years. When we went in 2024, we only saw 1 great gray, but last season sure made up for that!

That is the Admiral Road feeding station.

3 times, most recently last year when we made an impulse trip (only an 18-20 hour drive). Major owl irruption. It was incredible- great grays were literally everywhere, even outside the bog, plus a few boreal owls.

Are you at Sax-Zim?

Hummingbird holiday lights

Lights

Cottage holiday lights

Troll

A few from a favorite place with incredible holiday lights! Do you know where I am?
#holidaylights #seasonsgreetings

No reason for this 😡💔

You can kill it if it has internal or neurological injury. Any Rehabber will direct you not to feed any injured animal. We often think we are helping, but can actually cause more harm - good intentions can go wrong and kill an injured animal. I’ve volunteered for wild bird rescue for many years.

You can kill it if it has internal or neurological injury. Any Rehabber will direct you not to feed any injured animal. We often think we are helping, but can actually cause more harm - good intentions can go wrong and kill an injured animal. I’ve volunteered for wild bird rescue for many years.

That should say under the snow - autocorrect, sorry. Do not attempt to feed it, and please get to rehab asap. Thank you for caring.

Please reach out to a wildlife Rehabber. It should go to a rehab so they can evaluate it. It’s a house finch. They are cold hardy, so there could be an underlying reason why it ended up u see the snow. It needs to be kept in a warm, dark place - a small box with air holes lined with paper towels.

Don’t forget that 60% of the world’s seed proprietorship is owned by chemical corporations…

Sunrise over the marsh

American bittern

I stood quiet and still atop the observation tower at Edwin B. Forsythe NWR as the sun rose over the marsh. I was rewarded with thousands of tree swallows beginning a new day. An American bittern flew in, allowing me a single digiscoped shot before disappearing in the vegetation. #sunrise #birding

Mount Kineo

Mount Kineo in Moosehead Lake, Greenville, Maine. #maine

American goldfinches love to peck away at the leaves. We grow it in our garden and could not figure out why the leaves had small tears in them - they weren’t typical insect damage. Then we observed the goldfinches land on the leaf and nibble! We don’t mind sharing.

Calligrapha alni

Phryganea sp.

Orange River trail

Kayaking

A few from a paddle with Maine Coast Heritage Trust last month. That blingy beetle is Calligrapha alni, and the caddisfly is a Phryganea. #maine

Coppery leaf hopper adult

Tis the season. From my husband’s camera.