Midsummer

 

The fog sneaks in and slithers out at the Forked Pond beach  (better known as Hairpin or Bunny Mellon beach, or simply 29A), with the wind from the south.  We are alone except for the driftwood sculpture and some visiting herring gulls.  It seems sunny overhead, even as we look right and look left into fog. Now we see the breakers, now they emerge from a fog cabinet.

July 14: I biked to Cain's Pond last night to hear the chuck will's widow.  A black-crowned night heron fished at the opening to Sesachacha Pond.  4 deer and 12 rabbits were also using the bike path, including one bunny who ran head for 75 yards.  Lightning bugs on the Moors. ( I had seen them a few nights ago on the front lawn)

Northern Harrier

Savannah Sparrow

Steeplebush

July 17, 6:30 am: I ignored the "closed for application of agricultural chemicals" sign at the Milestone Bog.  The Steeplebush is blooming and lighting up the Bog.  The colicroot is faded, the yarrow continues. There is a midsummer mix of green and brown sedges in the bogs, and the expected flocks of red-winged blackbirds.   Red-tailed hawks and northern harriers are out hunting early, mobbed by kingbirds and crows.  Good views of Savannah sparrows.

July 18:  Foraging in Nantucket is a favorite pastime.  Blueberries are out and we have picked them twice, on July 18 and 22.  Yummy blueberry muffins for Mari's 45th birthday!

July 20.  Queen Anne's lace on the roadsides.  Summersweet, Sweet Pepper getting ready to burst.  Daily a northern harrier is hunting on the bluff.  I wish he would find the baby bunnies eating my flowers!

Mean temperature in July was 70.8 degrees, with a high of 83 degrees and a low of 57.  There 3.19 inches of rain. June 's mean was 64.8, with a high of80.7 and a low of 52.7. There was 2.95 inches of rain.

  

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