Please don't breed, and your dogs too :)

"subject to certain public trust rights, specifically, fishing, fowling, and navigation,,,"

so just bring along a bucket, pole, or other and appear to be "working" the intertidal makes it legit i guess

I'm going to find out soon myself how long it takes for me and my car to be recognized and build trust w/a bird or two as a crowbro :)

Really impressive to watch, lotsa fun to coax w/treats! Do they all pretty much fly in from the same direction?

thanks for the reply and yea, i get that their presence in numbers like this are a (minor) disturbance to people near the trees; still an amazing thing to behold.

Didn't occur to me to search reddit for crow info.

So thanks for that! 84K cacklers :)

my subject should have been:

Bangorite ISO crowbro !

> The coast is completely privately owned.

Worse, for the public, is that the Maine Supreme Judicial Court previously ruled that private ownership stretches to the low-water mark. So you can't even walk along the beach.

https://www.maine.gov/dacf/parks/docs/public-shoreline-access-in-maine.pdf

Saw a bald eagle on the kennebec River in Bangor yesterday afternoon - it was huuuge

Saw a bald eagle on the kennebec River in Bangor yesterday afternoon - it was huuuge

Saw a bald eagle on the kennebec River in Bangor yesterday afternoon - it was huuuge

Saw a bald eagle on the kennebec River in Bangor yesterday afternoon - it was huuuge

Saw a bald eagle on the kennebec River in Bangor yesterday afternoon - it was huuuge

Saw a bald eagle on the kennebec River in Bangor yesterday afternoon - it was huuuge

Saw a bald eagle on the kennebec River in Bangor yesterday afternoon - it was huuuge

Saw a bald eagle on the kennebec River in Bangor yesterday afternoon - it was huuuge

Saw a bald eagle on the kennebec River in Bangor yesterday afternoon - it was huuuge

Saw a bald eagle on the kennebec River in Bangor yesterday afternoon - it was huuuge

Saw a bald eagle on the kennebec River in Bangor yesterday afternoon - it was huuuge

Saw a bald eagle on the kennebec River in Bangor yesterday afternoon - it was huuuge

Saw a bald eagle on the kennebec River in Bangor yesterday afternoon - it was huuuge

You're correct that I'm over-generalizing and my apologies. My impression, spending far too many hours in harbors talking with lobstermen left me with a different impression. Yes, many are educated and well-spoke; but many/most stated they weren't cut out for classrooms and barely eeked out H.S.

I'm not saying anyone needs college , I was saying that the trades you mentioned are perfectly fine; my point being that I didn't think any given area could handle that many tradesmen w/out other economic improvements just to be able to hire them and keep them in their trade.

There's already a big scalloping industry. The DownEast institute on Bealls island is researching clams and mollusks, but nobody really likes clamming because wading in the muck sucks; even winkling is more attractive :)

Most of the kids in these small fishing communities only graduated high school by the skin of their teeth. Their future is in the trades, but there wouldn't be enough jobs to accommodate them.

My understanding is that it takes a minimum of 300 traps to break even; most working boats have 4 to 500 traps and are still in the red. The waiting list for a license (and 300 traps) is 8 years. So if you start your kid off at age 8 with a permit, by 16 years old they can become a working lobsterman.

A better education is the only way out, while most natives to the area are functionally illiterate.