So close to us

“Pileated {Woodpecker} Feeding Its Young” (photo), by Linda Cullivan, in the 19-person photography show “Birds,’’ at Cove Street Arts, Portland, Maine, through Feb. 19.

The show quotes the great English naturalist, and TV presenter, Sir David Attenborough:

"Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?"

Ms. Cullivan lives in Scarborough, in southern Maine.

The Pileated Woodpecker’s unusual range

Scarborough from the air, looking to the southeast. Note the Prouts Neck Peninsula (where Winslow Homer did many of his paintings), and the Scarborough River and its tributaries.

Higgins Beach in Scarborough