You received’t wish to miss these movies of gorgeous Maine birds
All the additional rain final spring seems to have helped present nice habitat alternatives for Maine birds.
Our previous pal Allie Ladd of Byron lately shared some movies that function 4 completely different species that chicken lovers received’t wish to miss as they make themselves at house in western Maine.
Within the opening piece, there may be numerous Canada geese bobbing within the pond. Ladd stated the looks of the massive birds and their numbers are each noteworthy.
“One video I counted 30. Good factor they don’t eat fish,” Ladd stated in a Fb publish. “The primary and final time that I noticed geese right here was Saturday, Nov. 23, 1963 — The morning after President John Kennedy was assassinated.”
The second act of at present’s compilation options two extra chicken species which can be comfy in and across the water. An ideal blue heron creeps quietly and punctiliously throughout an previous log underneath the watchful eye of two widespread mergansers, a male (left) and a feminine.
All three seem to get alongside nicely.
The third video section disproves, but once more, the rivalry that turkeys don’t fly. Grownup birds really can stay airborne for prolonged intervals, particularly after being flushed from their roosts by turkey hunters who encroached on them.
Within the video the feminine turkey has no downside crossing the half-wrecked beaver dam by strutting throughout the spot the place the water is working by. The polts aren’t very previous, however their instincts clearly inform them {that a} quick flight over that spot will allow them not solely to maintain up with their mom, however to stay dry within the course of.
Many due to Allie Ladd for offering extra movies of Maine wildlife and exhibiting us what they’re as much as when no one is trying!
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