Saturday, May 8. About 5 pm, while walking along Stillwater Avenue in Orono in the Caribou Bog, I saw a flying squirrel inexplicably out in the daytime and in the grass next to the road. It climbed an alder, then jumped to a red maple. The same date and place, in a roadside pool, I saw a very gravid-looking stickleback, a kind of fish, but I could not find a nest in the pool. Supposedly their nests are walnut-sized, made with plant material, have a hole at each end, and are attached to water plants.
Males make and guard the nests, and induce females to lay their eggs there.
J.K.M. Sunday, May 9. N.M. Sunday, May 9. B.G. Sunday, May 9. L.S. Monday, May 10. Actually, they usually start in this area on Memorial Day weekend.