Hot and cold

Oak leaves and pine needles burrowing into the ice on the pond.

Scarborough, Maine

Airborne Identity

California or the Yukon? You can use DNA from a single feather to find out where a migrating bird hails from, and where it stops along the way (I wrote a story about this for Living Bird Magazine).

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Wilson's Warbler, the star of this study. Drawn in 2008 for Acadia Birding Festival.

Pencil bouquet

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Beware of Falling Clams

Two gulls chasing each other this morning, fighting over a quahog. First they almost collide with my head, then they drop the clam on me.