Last week there were three large birds circling slowly over the beaver bog. They were quite high (2000 ft.?) and I saw with the naked eye white on the head and tail of at least one of them. A mostly dark, large bird with white at both ends means EAGLE. With my hand-held 200mm lens I could not get any great images but here are a few. The bird on the right was not dark but grayish. Not sure what kind of bird, but the three of them looked like a team.
The other image here is a close up of the base of a column of Memorial Bridge over the Kennebec river in Augusta. Ice bergs abound.
Winter loon
As promised, here is the shot of the common loon cruising off the little beach earlier this month. It took some research in my bird books to ascertain that the common loon looks rather dull in the winter and this is likely one of them. Loons in salt water along the Connecticut coast is not something I have seen before; loons on Maine lakes is a favorite sight, and they are seen on the Maine seacoast as well.
On a clear winter day in the Maine woods, the jets inbound from Europe sometimes are the only birds I can find.
While on a patrol toward the far bog in Maine, we heard the loud tapping of a hairy woodpecker