Brian Whitney writes:
This is a picture that Mary Bickerstaff took today, Nov. 10, 2022, of sandhill cranes in the field at the corner of Hatch Road and Peacock Hill Road.
I have seen them in the past in a field on Bald Hill Road where there were about six of them. At that time I thought I was seeing blue herons but after researching I found that blue herons do not hang out in groups or fields.
If you Google them in Maine, they were first spotted in the Belgrade Lakes region. New Gloucester is one of few places in Maine known for having a colony of the birds.
They are a pleasant and rare sight indeed!
