Easter

 Easter is a time of  rebirth and renewal.  A time of pain and joy.   This is so evident in the natural world around us,  and the spring peepers in the wetlands nearby are very loud about it!  Easter was bright and sunny,  with low winds:  perfect for a Polpis loop bike ride.  The pine warblers were singing in the multiple pine stands I passed.  I saw the buffleheads back in Sesachacha-  I thought they had gone. The  white-tailed deer are bold, running across the road and bike path.

 The gannets, long-tail ducks, loons eiders and scoters visited regularly in the afternoon this week, along with our resident herring,  great back-backed and lesser black-backed gulls.  A merlin visited the yard.  But as I hiked the beach to Hoick's Hollow in the late afternoon,  the pain was also visible-  a struggling red throated loon was beached and unable to move.

No Easter baskets for the grandkids this year,  with our novel coronavirus social distancing meaning Arthur and Noa's  Easter Egg hunt was seen via Facetime. We are lucky to be healthy. A Zoom Rudden Easter gathering and Posner-Semonoff Passover seder brought us together.

On Saturday we had hiked Stump Pond and it didn't look much greener than it did a few weeks ago. Near the bog a flicker and a merlin/cooper's hawk were seen.

Red throated Loon

Common Loon

Black Scoter

Eider

Field station Pond

Arthur's 4th Birthday

Great Egret on Folger's Marsh

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Pink SuperMoon on April 7,  Arthur's 4th Birthday

Daffodils on the Bluff Walk