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Please keep feeding our wild birds | Letter
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (240+ words) An April 17 letter to the editor stated that reducing the use of wild bird seed will reduce the tick population on our lawns, presumably out of a belief that the birds visiting an empty feeder will, instead, eat ticks. Although…...
Read the poem ‘Rainy Morning in the Horse Barn’ by Lucia Owen
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (190+ words) The Portland Press Herald You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. With a The Portland Press Herald subscription, you can gift 5 articles each month. It…...
When birds irrupt, winter wakes up
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (1686+ words) Winter in Maine may be long, dark and cold, but it is also one of the most rewarding seasons for birdwatching. Across the state, from coastal towns like Portland and Boothbay to interior communities such as Farmington and Jay, cold-weather…...
The lessons that birds can teach us | Column
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (793+ words) natural defenses. Douglas received hundreds of letters from students and teachers over the years, thanking...
The counting season has arrived | Opinion
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (621+ words) Todd R. Nelson is a retired educator who lives in Penobscot. His books of essays, “Cold Spell” and “The Land Between the Rivers,” are published by Down East Books. Dec. 21 and we have entered the season of counts. It is the…...
Growing up with Yellow, Litchfield’s pizza-eating goose of vast age
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (810+ words) Come May, Chelsey Rae Hill will celebrate the 28th birthday of her most cherished childhood friend. There will be pizza, there will be watermelon and there will be reminiscing aplenty. It doesn’t sound sound so exotic, maybe, until you learn that…...
Accessible and engaging, ‘Strata’ looks back, way back, at air, ice, mud and heat
8+ mon, 6+ day ago (263+ words) Poppick brings readers to sites including an epic iron mine in Minnesota, Wyoming’s Bighorn Canyon, a Norwegian archipelago, Ireland’s Dingle Peninsula, the Australian Outback and Coastal Newfoundland. At Colby College in Waterville, she visits the lab of a paleobotanist who…...
From tracking birds to enchancing the landscape: New Year’s resolutions from a naturalist
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (574+ words) A white-breasted nuthatch hangs out in a tree recently. (Megan Maher/Maine Audubon) " data-medium-file="https://www.pressherald.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2026/01/2025_1209_GFAC_White-breasted-Nuthatch_MM_026.jpg?w=300" data-large-file="https://www.pressherald.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2026/01/2025_1209_GFAC_White-breasted-Nuthatch_MM_026.jpg?w=780" />You can benefit Maine wildlife, and yourself, by picking up some of these habits in the new year. You are able to gift…...
Read the poem ‘River Otters,’ by Jenn Carter
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (302+ words) This week’s poem, poet Jenn Carter offers us otters, wonder, and radical kinship. I love how this poem moves from the otters’ sleek bodies (which “aren’t just in the water; / They are the water”) to our own watery bodies—and…...
Answers to the most common birding questions
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (488+ words) Maine’s top source for news and information. You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. With a The Portland Press Herald subscription, you can gift 5 articles…...