The groundsel has blown away, the huckleberries are reddish sticks. The trees are bare, except for the oaks. But the winterberries radiate, and the harlequin ducks have arrived.
The gannets, all three scoters, the loons and the long-tailed ducks are regular visitors off the bluff. The lesser black-backed gulls are regularly on the beach with the greater black-backed and herring gulls.
The raptors are again more visible. When we returned home on Friday morning, the crows had left us a rabbit, with fur and entrails spread about. The Sunday birding group watched a peregrine falcon each an eider from the Erosion Project viewing point, and then saw greater black-backed gulls eating one at the UMass Field Station beach.
The drought seems to be ending; we have had 3.22 inches of rain in October, and already 2.38 inches in November. The ponds are still very low.
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Huckleberry sticks on the Middle Moors
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Last pond lily near Norwood Farm
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Low Almanac Pond...
looking back
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AlmanacPond - height of the rock
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Snow buntings at Gibbs Pond
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Harlequin duck off Erosion Control Project
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Winterberries
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