6-15-16: This is the last of the "practice posts" that we did as we were learning the ropes of "blogging." Hope you enjoy it.
Maine's Acadia National Park: Thursday, June 2nd
"If we can somehow retain places where we can always sense the mystery of the unknown our lives will be richer." Sigurd F. Olson
What a beautiful coastline at Acadia NP
Bar Harbor from atop Cadillac Mountain
This was as close to Bar Harbor as we wanted to get. Not our kind of place.
Lobster Pots used to be made of wood but now are usually plastic. Sardines are juvenile herring and herring are used to bait the traps. Each fisherman is allowed 375 pots!
Largest Beaver Lodge we've seen on this trip
Black-throated Green Warbler
A new trip bird for us and hiding among the foliage. The males sing persistently during the breeding season (we heard himLONG before we finally saw him!). Ons individual was observed singing 466 songs in one hour.
Common Whitetail Dragonfly
Males are very territorial and are very active at breeding sites; they raise their abdomen in flight is an aggressive display toward other males; females lay their eggs in flight, often closely guarded by the male, by tapping the tip of her abdomen on the water's surface.
Male Common Yellowthroat
Their summer range includes most of the United States and Canada and even up into the Canadian Arctic.
Winter Moth
Magnolia Warbler
Unbeknown to Wilson who named this handsome warbler, the birds he encountered were actually spring migrants on their way toward Canada - far north of the range of the Southern Magnolia tree in which he first saw them.
Tripple-decker Shelf Fungi
Four-spotted Skipper Dragonfly
An extremely widespread dragonfly throughout the northern regions worldwide.
Spatterdock Lily
Eastern Painted Turtle
On a log next to the beaver lodge, he was taking advantage of the bright sunny day.
Chalk-fronted Corporal Dragonfly
Eight-spotted Skimmer Dragonfly
Males are very territorial, often making patrolling flights over the water performing vertical loops with competing males.
Blue-headed Vireo
A new trip bird for us.
Because the deciduous trees have not leafed out when these vireos arrive on their breeding grounds, most courtship nests and first breeding nests are built in evergreen hemlock trees.
However, their dependence on hemlocks may become troublesome because this tree is being decimated by an introduced Asian insect, the hemlock wooly adelgid.
Bathroom Signs
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