Long weekend in Southeastern Maine! First time exploring the area.
Rachel Carson National Refuge
Goose Rocks Beach, Cape Porpoise
Wells Jetty
This was tough…wasn’t easy to take photographs I was happy with. Ended up with a lot of longer exposure photos of the waves, the birds, and the waves and birds together. Not sure how good they will look to other people!
Trying to capture the movement of the birds as they swayed up and down the beach with the waves:
A flock of birds in motion:
Bonus Tiger Beetle
This lovely Cicindela sexguttata, Six-spotted Tiger Beetle, was waiting to welcome us home when we got back. Definitely has sustained quite a bit of damage, but lovely nonetheless.
a little wild 
Looks glorious, how did it come to be named after Rachel Carson?
Rachel Carson spent quite a bit of time in Southeastern Maine, where this refuge is located! It was renamed after her in 1969: “The Fish and Wildlife Service named one of its refuges near Carson’s summer home on the coast of Maine as the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge in 1969 to honor the memory of this extraordinary woman.” (https://www.fws.gov/refuge/Rachel_Carson/about/rachelcarson.html)