Piping Plover Scientific name: Charadrius melodus Cool fact: A Piping Plover parent will attempt to lure a potential predator away from its nest by feigning a broken wing. A small, pale-brown bird that nests on sandy beaches, the Piping Plover, along with its sand-colored eggs and chicks, can be difficult to see. Thus camouflaged, they Read More
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My Maine This Week: Sierra Frith
We welcome a new My Maine This Week contributor this week. Sierra Frith of Bath, Maine, shared with us a few photos from her recent trip to Popham Beach, down by Fort Popham in Phippsburg, Maine. And, we learn from these photos that enjoying Maine’s environment isn’t just for humans. Sierra was joined at Popham Read More
My Maine This Week: Sara Dulac
With spring temperatures arriving over the past couple of weeks, can summer really be that far behind? This week’s photo, by Sara Dulac of Saco, Maine, was taken in Kennebunk. Sara titled it, “Summer air in Kennebunk.” What are your favorite Maine locations to visit during the summer? Please share your photos with us at Read More
My Maine This Week: Brownie Carson
Former NRCM Executive Director and former State Senator Brownie Carson of Harpswell, Maine, shared this photo he took recently at Reid State Park in Georgetown, Maine. Look at that blue sky! Have you visited Maine’s coast now that the weather is warmer and days are getting longer? We would love to see your pics. Please Read More
Steve Cartwright My Maine This Week Slideshow
Longtime NRCM member (and former staff person, too!) Steve Cartwright of Tenants Harbor, Maine, has shared so many beautiful photos with us over the years, that we thought it was time to put them all in one place in this My Maine This Week slideshow. Steve has traveled all around Maine, but these days likes Read More
My Maine This Week: Steve Cartwright
This week’s photo is getting us ready for spring to arrive in three weeks. After a lot of gray days this winter, these greens of a mossy pool on Clark Island remind us that spring is on its way! Longtime NRCM member and frequent My Maine This Week photography contributor Steve Cartwright of Tenants Harbor, Read More
My Maine This Week: David Small
NRCM member and frequent My Maine This Week photographer David Small of Old Town, Maine, writes, “For several years I’ve photographed the seasonal Purple Sandpiper at the Rockland Breakwater. It arrives, usually late fall early winter from Canada. It has become one of my favorite birds. If you’re respectful of its necessity to feed, and Read More
My Maine This Week: Steve Cartwright
As we get ready for a blue moon on Halloween night, we want to share this gorgeous harvest moon over Southern Island photo from earlier this month, taken by longtime NRCM member Steve Cartwright of Tenants Harbor, Maine.
My Maine This Week: Evan Wells
“Before heading off our different ways for college, my friends and I shared dumplings and bubble tea at this amazing spot in Portland’s Old Port,” writes NRCM member Evan Wells of Gardiner, Maine, as he shares his recent photo with us. With the unofficial end of summer arriving last week in Maine, what were some of Read More
