The Sebasticook River Watershed is a place of remarkable diversity, with six Beginning with Habitat Focus Areas recognized as hotspots of biological diversity in the region.  We often marvel at the abundance of birds and plants while exploring our conservation lands. SRLT Board Chair Tom Aversa recently shared this photo of a colorful family of Pied-billed Grebes observed while birdwatching in Corinna Bog, which is a significant wetland in the watershed. Pied-billed Grebes prefer quiet ponds and marshes with thick emergent vegetation. Opportunistic feeders, they prefer crustaceans, small fish, and invertebrates, and feed by diving or slowly submersing themselves in the water. This diminutive bird is the only grebe that breeds in Maine, and they migrate south for the winter.