WORLD KIGO: UNITED STATES - MAINE..........
 Bruce Ross, US
 

Maine is in the northeast, the upper right hand corner of the Continental US, bounded on the east by the Atlantic Ocean; the north by Quebec, Canada and New Brunswick, Canada; the west, by New Hampshire; and the south, by New Hampshire.

 

• bunchberry
  
  Its  symmetrically pointed, alternating, four white petals and four green ones are flat (like a medieval emblem)  and appear in spring inedible red berries appear in fall) and fill the forest floor.
  
   acadia forest
   pausing time after time
   for bunchberry blossoms
  
   
• wood thrush
  
  A bird with a white belly, black speckled white  chest, and brown top. About 8 inches long, it hops along the ground  like a robin and has a flute-like song. It appears in summer.
  
   Swan Lake
   the first wood thrushes peck
   dried-out grass
  
   
• Alberta Clipper
  
  A bitter cold wind coming from the northwest in winter.
   
   despite the cold
   a line of common eiders
   Alberta Clipper
   

 

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