Birding: February 2009 Archives

“Audubon’s Guidebook to New England soon helped me figure out the plant was bladder campion. Since that initial identification a dozen years ago, this flower has caught my eye everywhere in Maine, particularly on the edges of gravel roads in the north country. In short, one day it did not exist in my life, and forever after I have seen it far and wide.” Ken Allen says guidebooks aid the joy of discovery like almost no other piece of equipment. In Maine’s Kennebec Journal.