Deirdre Fleming

Staff Writer

Deirdre Fleming covers the outdoors for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram, and has been a newspaper reporter in Maine for 25 years - and an outdoor writer for the past 20. During that time, she’s seen biologists trap 500-pound bear, watched fishermen land high-jumping makos, camped on Moosehead Lake in the winter, and retraced Gov. Percival Baxter’s first trip to Mt. Katahdin. She is often asked, but still does not know her favorite wildland in Maine. A graduate of Georgetown University and the University of Missouri, she lives with her husband in Buxton near the Saco River, where they both fly fish.

Outdoors, Sports

Wising up on owls with Judy Camuso

by Deirdre Fleming November 1, 2015November 2, 2015

Maine’s wildlife director spends her free time banding saw-whet owls.

Sports, Varsity Maine, Volleyball

Volleyball: Scarborough rallies to win state Class A title

by Deirdre Fleming October 31, 2015December 7, 2017

The Red Storm win the final three sets to top Greely, 3-1.

Local & State, News, Outdoors

As hunters take to Maine woods this season, more women are joining the ranks

by Deirdre Fleming October 31, 2015October 30, 2015

More than 12 percent – about 24,000 – of the hunting licenses sold in the state last year were to women.

Sports, Varsity Maine, Volleyball

Volleyball state championships

by Deirdre Fleming October 30, 2015October 31, 2015

CLASS A GREELY (13-3) VS. SCARBOROUGH (12-5) WHEN: Noon, Saturday WHERE: South Portland High OUTLOOK: The No. 2-ranked Rangers are playing for their first state title since 2012, and 10th Class A state championship. The fifth-ranked Red Storm are playing for their first state title. They’ve been to the final match twice in the past […]