Squam Pond
August 4, 75 degrees and muggy at 8:15 am. Masquetuck
Mosquitoes 🦟 are looking for a meal everywhere, but especially near a marsh! A Red- eyed vireo sings a welcome..."here I am, look at me" Even though ebird calls the red-eyed vireo rare, it is regularly in the swamps in Nantucket in the summer. I also heard one in Squam Swamp last week.
The fog- limned webs are magical. 
The sweet pepper is now truly out and perfuming the air. Cicadas and towhees provide the background sounds. The osprey nest in the pines is now empty, the birds have gone fishing. It is now 47 steps to spartina from end of steps, 39 steps from the edge of the sand. As at Eel Point, the sea lavender is out.
At Reyes Pond, the great crested flycatcher was the "wheeping" greeter. As I hiked into the moors and the Altar Rock Road parking spot, I saw 1 monarch and 1 wood nymph . Goldenrod and sickle-leaved aster and the expected birds joined me. That bandit common yellowthroat gave me a brief glimpse as wells its call notes, before vanishing again into the shrubs around Reyes Pond. Some more high bush blueberries were a treat.
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| Great Crested Flycatcher |
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| Common Wood Nymph |
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| Sickle-leaved Aster, now Sickleleaf SilkGrass, Pityopsis falcata |
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