Maine lakes have more rocks, due to low water levels and no rain for too long a stretch of dry, hot summer weather.
Farmers are concerned, harvest has started and the yield is smaller sized crops. The Maine rivers on a starvation of water diet along with COVID19 social distancing rules have not helped raft guides either. It’s like someone turned off the spigot and gravel river beds and scratched bedrock are exposed around the corners of Maine. It makes you wonder how the fish travel up or down streams when the liquid highway is dry as a bone. They must lace up sneakers for the hike or die stranded in increasingly shrinking water pools.
On a Maine lake where I live, more bird perches rise up as water levels drop.
Rock reefs with new stones where you never saw them due to Maine lake low water levels. That’s Maine today! Like bones poking out of a lake thirsty for water. Low water translates to more seating options for the otters, the water foul the result and more obvious boat hazards.
You would not think of white sea gulls flapping their wings to get up to Northern Maine either.
But they are. In the early morning as the sun rises and steam from the lake water being warmer than the air temperatures of late September you hear them. Crying, communicating like they are bickering or complaining to anyone who will listen. Not as pretty a song as the haunting ones sung on the open water in the evenings by Maine lake loons.
Seagulls in Maine. You expect them at the day at the Maine beach with the kids looking for a quick snatch.
Panhandling the sun worshipers and like beach bums. But seagulls in Northern Maine and many hours away from the craggy rock bound coast of Vacationland. Maybe it’s the french fries from the local McDonalds that draws them in. They sit in a line on a rock reef that acts as a breakwater off the little and big lake. Drews Lake, where I spend the majority of the year these days up in Maine.
Lots of other folks have the same notion due to COVID19 and especially if they can get long and strong Internet broadband connections for working remotely online in Maine.
When the fish are jumping, the seagulls hop to it and soar up, then dive down to steal the fish dinner away from other birds. Wildlife are a big part of the entertainment on a Maine lake viewed from shore or out in a boat. Around the 4th of July, more fireworks happen too when summer days turn into night. The echo of thundering booms and bright lights of all kinds exploding in the Maine lake reflection makes you reflect on another year in Maine that pass too quickly. (more…)