Abby McBride Posted on Saturday, January 25, 2014 at 07:25PM 
Out in the bay right now it's hard to tell where ice ends and water begins. Most of the gulls in the background are standing. The bufflehead in the foreground is swimming.
Moments later, a hipster wearing a kilt wishes me "Happy Robert Burns Day."
True story.
Abby McBride Posted on Sunday, January 12, 2014 at 06:31PM 
Seems I didn't make it too far between 2013 and 2014...back on the sea wall facing South Portland, with a red-breasted merganser, a common eider, and a horned grebe. Unlike last time, today it was downright warm - somewhere in the 40s.
Not pictured: long-tailed ducks, surf scoters, the usual gulls, more eiders and mergansers, and a common loon. The loon was paddled madly along the coast with its head tucked under its wing, apparently not concerned with being able to see where it was going.
