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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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