A pair of female Pine Grosbeaks share a pebble while foraging in Mt. Vernon.

Two loons in the water at Watchic Lake in Standish.

Eastern Egg Rock is home to the world's first restored Atlantic Puffin colony. The 7-acre island is located in outer Muscongus Bay, 6 miles east of New Harbor.

A puffin comes to shore at Eastern Egg Rock.

Eastern Egg Rock is home to the world's first restored Atlantic Puffin colony.

An Arctic tern carries food in its mouth while flying around Eastern Egg Rock.

A piping plover forages on Wells Beach.

A flock of waterfowl take flight through sea smoke over Back Cove during single-digit weather at sunrise.

A puffin makes its way to a burrow on Eastern Egg Rock.

A gold finch perches on a branch at the Gisland Farm Audubon Center.

A group of Great Egrets congregate at Back Cove in Portland.

A fork-tailed flycatcher carries lunch back to a tree at Maine Audubon.

A seagull takes flight over abandoned pilings near Ocean Gateway.

A loon comes up out of the water while fishing for food on Crescent Lake.

A common loon flaps its wings in the water of Third Roach Pond at the Appalachian Mountain Club new lodge, Medawisla. Medawilsa is the Abenaki word for loon.

A great egret lands in the marsh grass along Granite Point in Biddeford.

People and birds walk along the beach in Old Orchard Beach as the sun begins to burn off an early morning fog.

A puffin flies over Eastern Egg Rock in Muscongus Bay while carrying white hake in its beak. The puffins can travel up to 50 miles over the Gulf of Maine, looking for small fish to feed their chicks, who nest under large rocks on the shore of Eastern Egg Rock.

A common loon sits Sunday on a nest along the shore of Lake Auburn.

A bird flaps it's wings in a section of open water on Lake Auburn.

A Ruby-throated hummingbird hovers at a feeder at the Pages' home in North Yarmouth.

Several types of birds congregate in open water along Lake Shore Drive in Auburn.

A piping plover forages on Wells Beach.

A group of Barrow's goldeneye and common goldeneye birds circle above the Androscoggin River between Lewiston and Auburn..

A Bald Eagle perches from the limb of a tree between Route 9 and the Kennebec River in Randolph.

An Osprey plucks an alewife from the waters of the Sebasticook River in Benton as the alewives make their annual run up river.

A female Pine Grosbeak pits a seed while feeding on fruit with a flock of fellow Canadian finches in Readfield.

Herring gulls have a lifespan of 30 or more years. In the late 19th century, sailors on the Brenton Reef Lightship recorded a particular bird they named Gull Dick, returning every fall for over 20 years, and staying for the winter. They would feed it a breakfast of boiled pork and fish. Gull Dick preferred the boiled pork.

A Black-capped Chickadee stretches out on a branch in North Yarmouth.

An American Goldfinch perches on a feeder at Gilsland Farm Audubon Center.

A Tufted Titmouse pauses on a feeder at Gilsland Farm Audubon Center.

An Eastern Bluebird takes flight with an insect in its beak at Gilsland Farm Audubon Center.

The Memorial Bridge frames a heron soaring underneath it early on a Saturday morning on the Kennebec River in downtown Augusta. There were several people and birds trying to catch fish just after sunrise.

A hen Northern Cardinal picks berries from a shrub along the banks of the Kennebec River in Gardiner.

Photographed with a slow shutter speed which blurs its wings, a gull flies past rocks at Nubble Light in York. Although they are common, gulls are protected under the federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act, making it illegal to hunt, capture or kill them. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Department of Agriculture can issue permits for dealing with nuisance gulls.

A red-winged blackbird perches on a branch in Biddeford Pool.

A rare field sparrow perches on a branch at the Gisland Farm Audubon Center.

Canada geese and mallards swim in open water on Pleasant Pond in Richmond.

A piping plover forages along the shore of Goose Rocks Beach in Kennebunkport. The plovers, an endangered species, have returned to Maine beaches to nest but are subject of controversy in some coastal communities.