Wild Critters of Maine: Everyday Encounters

Tom Seymour encounters scores of animals and birds in Maine's outdoors. Some of them are common enough that any Mainer could identify them: loons, moose, black bears, great blue herons. Others are lesser-known, such as rails, green frogs, cormorants, and more. Seymour treks year-round through the woods and fields of Maine. He's sharing that knowledge in Wild Critters of Maine.

Readers of Wild Critters of Maine will learn from Seymour about much of the wildlife that populates the state of Maine. With the same lively, accessible storytelling as his previous books, including Wild Plants of Maine, Tom Seymour introduces and describes the characteristics of many of Maine's treasured animals.

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Wild Critters of Maine: Everyday Encounters

Tom Seymour encounters scores of animals and birds in Maine's outdoors. Some of them are common enough that any Mainer could identify them: loons, moose, black bears, great blue herons. Others are lesser-known, such as rails, green frogs, cormorants, and more. Seymour treks year-round through the woods and fields of Maine. He's sharing that knowledge in Wild Critters of Maine.

Readers of Wild Critters of Maine will learn from Seymour about much of the wildlife that populates the state of Maine. With the same lively, accessible storytelling as his previous books, including Wild Plants of Maine, Tom Seymour introduces and describes the characteristics of many of Maine's treasured animals.

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Wild Critters of Maine: Everyday Encounters

Wild Critters of Maine: Everyday Encounters

Wild Critters of Maine: Everyday Encounters

Wild Critters of Maine: Everyday Encounters

Overview

Tom Seymour encounters scores of animals and birds in Maine's outdoors. Some of them are common enough that any Mainer could identify them: loons, moose, black bears, great blue herons. Others are lesser-known, such as rails, green frogs, cormorants, and more. Seymour treks year-round through the woods and fields of Maine. He's sharing that knowledge in Wild Critters of Maine.

Readers of Wild Critters of Maine will learn from Seymour about much of the wildlife that populates the state of Maine. With the same lively, accessible storytelling as his previous books, including Wild Plants of Maine, Tom Seymour introduces and describes the characteristics of many of Maine's treasured animals.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798869322296
Publisher: Mt. Waldo Publishing
Publication date: 04/24/2024
Pages: 182
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.49(d)

About the Author

He lives in a small cabin in Waldo, Maine.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii

A Special Note About Wild Babies viii

Mammals 3

Moose: Indelible wildlife ambassadors 5

Off-Season Whitetails: A pleasure to study 10

Coyotes Make Bad Neighbors: Not going anywhere soon 14

Eastern Cougar: An ongoing mystery 19

Bobcat: Widespread and obscure 23

Red Fox: Maine’s most common canid 27

Woodchucks: Bane of the kitchen garden 31

Raccoons: They will never change 35

The Cosmopolitan Muskrat: Hello, brother muskrat 39

Run Hare, Run: Circular evasion 43

Gray Squirrels: Sporty, fun, delectable 47

Maine’s Marine Mammals: Seals, whales, and porpoises 51

Fowl 57

Wild Turkeys: Marauders 59

A Woodcock Classic: Sudden, sweet twittering 63

Rail and Snipe: Fascinating and challenging 68

Hummingbirds: Maine’s mini acrobats 73

American Robin: Captivating sweet song 77

Loons: Indicators of the changing seasons 80

Soldier Birds: With sea legs 84

Wading Birds: Grace, form and beauty 88

Great blue herons 88

Bitterns 90

Great Egrets 92

Owls: Don’t Come Easy 93

Maine’s Seabirds: Exotic and interesting 98

Guillemots 99

Ducks 100

Gulls 102

Double-Crested Cormorants 102

Other Notable Birds: Variety flies in maine 103

Cowbird

Fish 107

Brook Trout: When trout go to sea 109

Maine’s Mysterious Charr: Worthy of our attention 113

Smallies: Splendid fighters 118

White Perch: Pleasing, big or small 121

Yellow Perch: A boon for the thrifty 125

Lobsters: Maine wouldn’t be Maine without lobsters 129

Crayfish: Not just for kids 134

Crawly Things 139

Big, Scary Insects: Scary doesn’t mean dangerous 141

June Bugs 141

Sawyer Beetles 142

Burying Beetles 143

Ichneumon Wasps 143

Beastly Water Bugs 144

Earwigs 144

Eastern Dobsonfly 146

Fluttering Favorites: One for every season 146

Mourning Cloaks 147

Luna Moths 148

Dragonflies: Savage Mosquito Hunters 150

Damselflies: Related species 152

Maine’s Amphibians: Wet and Wild 153

Gray Treefrog 154

Fragile salamanders 155

Newts 156

Northern two-lined salamander 158

Conclusion: Unexpected Encounters 159

Resources 163

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