Thursday, January 8, 2026
Wednesday, January 7, 2026
Day 18.362: Games
We’ve played quite a few games over the last few weeks while our college students have been home. I even remembered to take a couple of photos.
Tuesday, January 6, 2026
Day 18.361: Cold at Wells Harbor
A few more photos from Saturday morning. It was cold but we still had some fun.
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| Harbor seal |
Monday, January 5, 2026
Day 18.360: More of Saturday’s birds
We had some other good bird sightings on Saturday as well as the horned larks. Here are some of them:
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| American herring gull |
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| Red-breasted merganser |
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| Long-tailed duck |
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| Long-tailed duck |
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| Common loon |
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| Red-breasted merganser |
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| Long-tailed duck |
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| Common eiders. It looked like this male was holding forth to a big group of females |
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| Yellow-rumpled warbler |
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| Black-capped chickadee |
Sunday, January 4, 2026
Day 18.359: Exile #2’s Sunday Column #537
Exile #2 writes...
Although Exile #1 went back to work for one day last week, today really feels like the end of the holidays proper. We are all getting back into gear and thoughts are turning to jobs that have been waiting on to do lists. We postponed things just a little longer this evening, however, by spending the evening watching the sequel to Wicked, having refreshed our memories of the first movie last night. It is maybe not the best sign that we spent the first 10 minutes after the movie discussing the things that had made us giggle but we did generally seem to be in agreement that it was not as strong as the first one. Anyway, it was still fun to pass the time watching it together.
Although Exile #1 went back to work for one day last week, today really feels like the end of the holidays proper. We are all getting back into gear and thoughts are turning to jobs that have been waiting on to do lists. We postponed things just a little longer this evening, however, by spending the evening watching the sequel to Wicked, having refreshed our memories of the first movie last night. It is maybe not the best sign that we spent the first 10 minutes after the movie discussing the things that had made us giggle but we did generally seem to be in agreement that it was not as strong as the first one. Anyway, it was still fun to pass the time watching it together.
Saturday, January 3, 2026
Day 18.358: Horned larks
Our nature group met for our regular Saturday morning outing today. We gathered at Wells Harbor and saw various birds on land and water. The most exciting was a lovely view of a group of horned larks. My second time seeing this species. This was the first nearly a year ago.
Friday, January 2, 2026
Day 18.357: More NYE birds.
A few more sightings from our New Year’s Eve nature group gathering.
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| Common eider |
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| Common eider |
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| Great black-backed gull |
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| Common goldeneye |
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| Common goldeneye |
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| Big raft of black scorers |
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| One much nearer black scoter |
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| Northern mockingbird |
And as a bonus:
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| Lots of harbor seals |
Thursday, January 1, 2026
Day 18.356: Last life-bird of 2025
Our nature group had some bonus New Year’s Eve birding at Biddeford Pool yesterday and I added a new bird to my life list. The purple sandpiper is #256 and the 31st addition during 2025.
The picture isn’t much to be proud of. The birds were on some rocks offshore occasionally flying up a few feet when a big wave came.
We saw them quite clearly in the spotting scope but I would not have been able to confidently identify them without expert assistance.
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