Day 7.188: Maine Audubon, Portland & Bug Light Park

We said goodbye to my parents today, so it's appropriate that I have reached the last day of my recap of our mini-break with them last weekend. On Monday we were back home, but I still had the day off work and the weather was still dry (if getting a little hot and humid).

Our first stop was the Maine Audubon headquarters at Gilsland Farm in Yarmouth, where the birds were a little thin on the ground due to the midday heat, but we saw turkeys, swallows and yellowthroats along with a sphinx moth caterpillar, flowers and some great sculptures which were (in addition to being very appealing in their own right) excellent for keeping E5N1 interested as we walked the trails.

Then it was on to Portland for lunch and a stroll, from which we saw this red lizard across the inlet in Bug Light Park in South Portland:

So, we stopped in there on our way home and saw some kites (the lizard was being packed up by then), the loon that I saw some time ago in the same spot, now in its distinctive breeding plumage.