Meditations

By Kristen Lindquist

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  Tracking our summer birds south

  By Kristen Lindquist - Feb 03
  Remember that unusual raft of 600-plus coots that hung out on Chickawaukie Lake into early January, dwindling down to two, then none, as the lake ...
  

• Meditations on totems and clans

  By Kristen Lindquist - Dec 24
  A friend of mine believes the fox has special meaning for his family. Right after the birth of each of his daughters, three years apart, he saw a ...
  
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  Meditations on porcupines

  By Kristen Lindquist - Oct 11
  Recently my five-year-old niece, Fiona, came to our house overnight for her first sleepover. After a viewing of the movie “Rio” — “because you ...
  
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  Meditations: On animal sounds; or, what does a chipmunk say?

  By Kristen Lindquist - Aug 20
  Spending time playing with my young nieces, I’m reminded that among the first things we teach children — in addition to body parts (where’s your ...
  
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  Meditations on alders

  By Kristen Lindquist - May 24
  In this season when leaves are almost the size of squirrels’ ears and the first wildflowers brighten the forest floor, when mornings resound with ...
  
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  Meditations on mass bird deaths

  By Kristen Lindquist - Feb 13
  The new year began on an inauspicious note for wildlife. On New Year’s Day, several thousand red-winged blackbirds were found dead in Beebe, Ark., ...
  
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  Meditations on deer yards

  By Kristen Lindquist - Dec 05
  Deer are not an uncommon sight here in Midcoast Maine, although it often seems like a special visitation when one crosses my path in the woods or ...
  
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  Meditations on Whales

  By Kristen Lindquist - Sep 21
  As a teenager I was obsessed with dolphins and whales, although at that time the only ones I had seen were in tanks at Sea World. When people ...
  
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  Meditations on eiders

  By Kristen Lindquist - Jul 07
  Several summers ago my husband and I were dining at a fancy waterfront restaurant in Southern Maine when we heard the people at the next table ask ...
  
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  Meditations on mimics

  By Kristen Lindquist - May 05
  One recent morning as I was leaving for work I heard the distinctive call of a broad-winged hawk -- a piercing, high-pitched, two-tone whistle. ...
  

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  Meditations on gulls

  By Kristen Lindquist - Jan 12
  In a high school writing class years ago, I wrote a compare-and-contrast essay on how to tell apart different species of Maine gulls. Even then, I ...
  
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  Meditations on screams in the night

  By Kristen Lindquist - Dec 11
  A friend taking part in an owl survey a few years ago thought she’d heard a barn owl screaming in the woods. At least, she hoped it was a barn ...
  

• Meditations on the river in summer

  By Kristen Lindquist - Sep 03
  A lot of creatures swim in the Megunticook River. From my parents’ house on the banks of the “mill pond,” we’ve watched beavers ply the waters ...
  
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  Meditations: Slugs

  By Kristen Lindquist - Jun 27
  Consider the lowly slug. When I was a child of about five or six, I apparently did. My grandmother was busy with a sharp garden tool killing slugs ...
  
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  Meditations on House Sparrows

  By Kristen Lindquist - Mar 28
  If you know me or my husband, you might be surprised to learn that we own wedding china. Since we’re hardly formal types, it’s probably less ...
  
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  Meditations on wintering eagles

  By Kristen Lindquist - Jan 12
  During the colder months when many birds and humans alike head for warmer climes, one local population increases exponentially. The Midcoast ...
  
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  Meditations on cranes

  By Kristen Lindquist - Nov 07
  When most of us here in Maine think of cranes, we might envision the tall, elegant white birds depicted in classic Asian art. Or, depending on how ...
  
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  Meditations on puffins

  By Kristen Lindquist - Aug 11
  As August arrives and summer reaches its peak, I think of puffins. By early to mid-August, fledgling Atlantic puffins will have begun to exit ...
  
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  Meditations on summer birdsong

  By Kristen Lindquist - Jun 16
  Although it has felt like summer for weeks now, with lupines having bloomed in roadside fields and the hum of crickets rising from our lawns, the ...
  
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  Meditations on sky phenomena

  By Kristen Lindquist - Mar 31
  April showers bring May flowers, goes the saying. April in Maine, we expect rain. But mid-spring skies hold potential for more than rainy weather. ...