Category Archives: Birds

Sibley’s new bird book is amazing

Linda and I have several bird books by David Sibley, which we used a lot over the years, so I was excited to receive his new book, What It’s Like To Be A Bird. It’s an amazing book of details about lots of birds. I thought I knew a lot about birds, but from the […]

Costa Rica is Amazing

These stories are in my book, A Lifetime Of Hunting and Fishing, published by North Country Press.   The tiny Central American country of Costa Rica could teach Maine a few things. Two million tourists a year drive the Costa Rican economy that employs half the working population. Their environment is their economy. Where have […]

Maine has too many bald eagles

Recently Maine’s Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife issued the following news about bald eagles: Bald eagles were not always as common in Maine as they are today. In 1962, only 27 nesting pairs were found across the state. After decades of monitoring and implementation of intensive management practices, including working with willing landowners to conserve […]