The Wrack
The Wrack is the Wells Reserve blog, our collective logbook on the web.
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Southern Maine Beach Sands
| February 21, 2018 | Filed under: Program Activities
We recorded Dr. Jon Dykstra's talk in February 2018: A Brief Geological History of the Sands Along Southern Maine's Beaches.
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Happy Memorial... Year
| May 24, 2015
The following was published in the Biddeford-Saco Journal Tribune Sunday edition, 5/24/2015.
The small bird my boys found in the backyard last weekend was olive green with an orange crown like a dirty hunter’s hat. It showed no signs of violence, but it was definitely dead. No rigor mortis, so it wasn’t a winter casualty emerged from the snow. …that’s as far as our “CSI: South Portland” investigation went before I got a shovel and buried the bird six inches under. My seven-year-old placed a cantaloupe-sized rock over the grave and we went on with our day.
It was only after going back inside that evening that I began to wonder what species of bird it had been.
