October 16, 2010: Trip to the Maine Coast

Today we drove from Bethel to spend another day on the Maine coast north of Bath

Fall colors around Bethel

An elk farm along Route 26!

Snow Falls Rest Stop

Now down along the coast

Lobster Traps near Phippsburg

Morse Mountain Beach

Below: Popham Beach State Park

Fox Island at Popham Beach State Park

Above and Below:  Double Crested Cormorants

A distant lighthouse

Sandpipers along the beach

Common Eider

Harbor Seal

Black Scoter

White-Winged Scoter

Red-Necked Grebe

Above and Below: Fall colors at Popham Beach

Above and Below: Common Eiders

Common Loon

Above and Below:  Yellow-Rumped Warblers

Fort Popham (and views from the Fort Below)

Bailey Island, Maine

Area around Lands End (above and below)

Above and Below: Lobster fishing on Bailey Island

Cook's Lobster House

View from Land's End

Rare Cattle Egret on Bailey Island

October 13, 2010: Locke Mills and Portland, Maine Area

Some beautiful fall colors around Bethel, Maine

Blue Jay

Red Squirrel

The drive from Bethel to the Maine Coast

Cape Elizabeth, Portland

Song Sparrow

Interesting Mosses

Yellow-Rumped Warbler

Herring Gull

Above and Below:  Common Eider

Berries

Fall leaves

New York Aster

New England Aster

Cape Elizabeth Lighthouse

The ocean at Cape Elizabeth

Greater Black Backed Gull

Black Guillemot

Common Loon

Double Crested Cormorants

Greater Black Backed Gull

Double Crested Cormorants

Scarborough Marsh

Above and Below: Double Crested Cormorant

Fall Colors

Above: Berry Trees

 

Song Sparrow

 

Lesser Yellowlegs

Cape Neddick Lighthouse Area

 

Above and Below: Double Crested Cormorant

Common Eider

Black-Bellied Plover