MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • January 30, 2022
This month has been long and lousy. But it hasn’t all been bad news. It didn’t look good for loons, trapped as they were in open parts of Kezar Lake in Lovell, surrounded by ice and unable to take off. Three biologists from the Biodiversity Research Institute took a kayak and inflatable raft over to Lovell, where in an exciting rescue they saved from certain doom the five loons caught on the lake. And a rare Stellar’s sea eagle, native to northern Asia and eastern Russia, somehow got to midcoast Maine. It is the first ever sighted in Maine, and the first seen anywhere in the lower 48 states. Its appearance has drawn hundreds, if not thousands, of birders to the coast.