SCORES & OUTDOORS by Roland D. Hallee I’ve been reading a lot lately about the fate of the mighty Atlantic salmon. Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, have long been the target of recreational and commercial fishing, and this, as well as habitat destruction, has reduced their numbers significantly. The species is the subject of conservation efforts […]
SCORES & OUTDOORS by Roland D. Hallee This bit of news came across my desk this week, and I thought I would share it with you. According to Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, applications for 2017 any-deer (antlerless) permit lottery are now available online from the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. […]
SCORES & OUTDOORS by Roland D. Hallee From time to time, it happens. You see something unusual, don’t know what it is, so you go to your research material to find the answer. You use multiple sources, do your homework, then, when you think you have found the answer, it ends up being wrong. Well, […]
SCORES & OUTDOORS by Roland D. Hallee We have talked about the activities of nature’s little critters in the past, but it never ceases to amaze me as to what can happen in an instance. Last week, while on vacation, I was sitting on the porch taking a break from some chores, and my wife […]
SCORES & OUTDOORS by Roland D. Hallee It flashed by quickly. While driving down the Bog Road, in Vassalboro, recently, a streak of blue passed directly in front of my Jeep, near the Vassalboro Community School. It was a blue-colored bird, that looked on the small side, and it was gone in an instant. The […]
SCORES & OUTDOORS by Roland D. Hallee While traveling the back roads of Vassalboro the last couple of years, I noticed a drastic decline in the number of white-tailed deer sightings. There was actually one year – maybe the year before last – when I saw none at all. Well, my hopes have been renewed […]
SCORES & OUTDOORS by Roland D. Hallee It has already been a month since my wife and I moved to camp for the summer. With the annual trek comes the installation of the bird feeding stations that are all around us. We get the usual local congregations of chickadees, nuthatches, gold finches, blue jays, woodpeckers […]
SCORES & OUTDOORS by Roland D. Hallee Back around 1954, when I was seven years old, I became aware of a game called baseball. I loved it. I grew up in an era where I watched some of the greatest baseball players in history: Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, Hank Aaron, Ted Williams, Sandy Koufax, Willie […]
SCORES & OUTDOORS by Roland D. Hallee One of my neighbors at camp reported recently seeing a red fox trotting down the side of the Cross Hill Road, in Vassalboro, with a chicken in its jaws. That prompted many questions about the animal and its place among humans. There have been increased sightings of red […]
SCORES & OUTDOORS by Roland D. Hallee About 12 years ago, our grandson gave us a birdhouse that he had built. That same year, while attending a benefit auction, I acquired another birdhouse. We took both of those houses and mounted them on trees behind camp. There they sat for a dozen years. No activity […]