Sunday, February 2, 2014

Snowy Isle

Snow covered Nantucket when we arrived on Friday, and gradually melted over the weekend.    My first time to see seagull tracks in snow!


 Frozen mirror pond in the Middle Moors


This snowy owl was sitting high on the road out to Great Point,  flew as we approached.  We saw him again on the way back




Mute Swans were out at the pond at Great Point.  There were 6 hooded mergansers at Coskata Pond,  and the usual assortment of herring and black backed gulls, sanderlings and eiders. 


A Northern Harrier swooped over the heath and lichen near Wauwinet.  Check out the ice floes at Wauwinet Harbor!


Low Beach view