Around Portland

I assume that's a red squirrel we saw under the bird feeders at the Gilsland Farm Audobon Center in Falmouth, just north of Portland. It's on a hill overlooking the Presumpscot river, the main outlet of Sebago Lake, about a 45 minute drive away. In that distance the river is dammed eight times, according to wikipedia.

There are eight dams impeding the flow of the river as it makes its way to the ocean, some of which produce hydroelectric power. These dams are the Eel Weir Dam, North Gorham Dam, Dundee Dam, Gambo Dam, Little Falls Dam, Mallison Dam, Sacarappa Dam, and Cumberland Mills Dam. Dams upstream of Cumberland Mills served the locks of the Cumberland and Oxford Canal; and were modified to regulate water flow through the S. D. Warren Paper Mill after the canal fell into disuse. Since the removal of the Smelt Hill Dam in Falmouth in 2002, the last seven miles of the river after the Cumberland Mills Dam now flow unimpeded to the ocean.

That tree fungus growing on a log in woods near the Presumpscot estuary was looking a lot like the feathers on the breast of many raptors.