Northern New England Spring Quiz

Just one question, for any readers in California, Texas, Kuala Lumpur, etc. What’s going on here? This used to be a common late winter and early spring sight in Northern New England thirty years and longer ago: Those are sap buckets hanging on a sugar maple. Nowadays sugar makers mostly use plastic tubing to collect …

Redpolls

We saw a half-dozen redpolls the weekend Millie and Joel were up in Maine with us, which must have been in mid-January. We hadn’t seen any since up until yesterday morning. Redpolls are little brown-gray finches with a dark red spot on their forehead. They spend the summers in Canada and sometimes, but not always, …