Sunday, October 21, 2018

Fall 2018

Fall progresses from the goldenrod yellow and grasses to the mahogany of the Tupelo and bright spots of Groundsel to huckleberry red and cinnamon fern gold.

I missed seeing a 'Swall-nado"   this year,  but there were several hundred tree swallows here on the bluff  this weekend.  And still an Eastern Kingbird at Stump Pond,  while dark eyed juncos were also at Windswept Bog.   Last week's Sunday bird group at Madaket was amazing!   From peregrine to merlin to osprey to CapeMay Warbler and many shorebirds in between.  And at Squam Farm a week earlier there were bobolink and a black-throated green warbler.


Stump Pond  October 20

Sconset Bluff October 19

Sanderling "down front"
Samphire at Jackson Point October 14

Samphire at Jackson Point
Solidago Puberula- Downy Goldenrod




Lichen Field in the Middle Moors October 13
Scalloping with Kelsey and Charlie on October 6
Gerardia Purpurea

Pout Ponds October 13


Asters and Goldenrod