Nature Notes: A Maine Naturalist Afield
Author: Janet Galle
Host: Pepin Mittelhauser
Producer: Glen Mittelhauser
This episode follows one naturalist’s decades-long quest to see the elusive Winter Wren, from first hearing its song in the Maine North Woods to the long summer mornings spent waiting for a glimpse in a damp forest swale. Written by Janet Galle, this essay was originally published in The Observer, an online natural history journal from Maine Natural History Observatory.
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