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| Cain’s Pond Sunset |
It's been three weeks since our last trip to Nantucket and it is now popcorned with arrow wood viburnum. People are still seeing the Sandhill crane, but it was not at Moor's End farm when we passed.
I headed out for a night time bike ride to Sesachacha Pond at sunset. The scent of swamp azalea filled the night. A black-crowned night heron eyed the fish at Cain's Pond while a young Osprey also eyed them from above. A common yellowthroat led the bird chorus. Sesachacha wasn't drained this spring.
At 8:34, an Eastern Whip-poor-will started calling, even as the yellowthroats kept witchedy-ing. I decided to head into the moors toward Mirror Pond to find a chuck-wills-widow. Fireflies lit my way! It was like I was in a Disney Movie with fireflies as the honor guard and guardians both. I've never see a so many fireflies at once on Nantucket-hundreds. The most I've ever seen was in New Jersey in Basking Ridge in 2006. Was it the hot days that sparked a hatch? Some other natural phenomenon?
The chuck-wills-widow was singing near Mirror Pond. Probably 2.
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| Mirror Pond |
What a magical night! And a clear sky full of stars, too! Cygnus, Ursa Major and Minor, Cassiopeia.
The sunrise is north and moving south now that it is just past the summer solstice. By the equinox, the sunrise will be directly east of our bedroom window.
Josh and I walked Norwood Farm and heard a black-billed cuckoo near the "corner pond," which is filled with pickerelweed. Almanac Pond is ringed with yellow gratiola aurea. A few toadflax and Quaker ladies are still blooming, reminiscent of spring as we leap into summer.
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| Almanac Pond rimmed by Gratiola Aurea |
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