Category: Critter Chatter
CRITTER CHATTER: Use caution ‘rescuing’ baby critters in spring
PHOTO: A baby owl at Duck Pond Wildlife Rehab Center. (Duck Pond file photo) By Jayne Winters For wildlife rehabbers, spring brings an increase in…
CRITTER CHATTER: Warmer temperatures mean more baby critters
PHOTO: A baby fox at Duck Pond Wildlife Center. (Submitted photo) By Jayne Winters By the time you read this month’s column, we will have…
CRITTER CHATTER: Maine flying rodents, Part 2
By Jayne Winters As a follow-up to last month’s article about the flying squirrel at Duck Pond Wildlife Care Center, I wanted to share some…
CRITTER CHATTER: Maine flying rodents, part 1
PHOTO: A flying squirrel at Duck Wildlife Care Center. (Submitted photo) By Jayne Winters When I stopped by the Wildlife Care Center the other day…
CRITTER CHATTER: A trip down memory lane with Don Cote
PHOTO: Don Cote cares for fawns at Duck Pond Wildlife Care Center in Vassalboro in this Duck Pond archive photo. (Submitted photo) By Jayne Winters…
CRITTER CHATTER: Fall means things slow down at Duck Pond
PHOTO: Raccoons are released for fall at Duck Pond Rehab Center. (Duck Pond file photo) By Jayne Winters I stopped in to see Don at…
CRITTER CHATTER: The chipmunk continues to be charming
By Jayne Winters As I sat on our back deck the other day, watching one of “my” chippies fill his cheeks with peanuts, it dawned…
CRITTER CHATTER: Local farmers step up to ensure little ones get fed
PHOTO: One of Duck Pond Rehab’s fawns this June. (Submitted photo) By Jayne Winters I wasn’t sure what this month’s article would be about, but…
CRITTER CHATTER: Spring, summer means releases back into wild
By Jayne Winters VASSALBORO — Although spring always brings admissions of injured, sick and newly orphaned wildlife to the Wildlife Care Center, May and June…
CRITTER CHATTER: Are weasels vicious vermin or rodent regulators?
PHOTO: A weasel with an infected eye recently spent a couple days at Duck Pound Wildlife Rehab Center in Vassalboro. (Submitted photo) By Jayne Winters…