At Windswept bog, tree swallows and barn swallows swooping and eating insects. Heard a Great Crested Flycatcher. Red-winged blackbirds calling. Wood anemones in the wood; quaker ladies in the open; white violets in the bog.
Saturday, May 10, 2014
Windswept Cranberry Bog May 10 2014
The Shad (Amelanchier) are blooming all over the Island. We missed Daffodil weekend, but there are still drifts along the roads. Spring is driving away the long winter. Water levels in ponds are down from our last visit in late March. Eiders diving in formation on the ocean off the bluff; 3 Gannets are soaring and diving.
At Windswept bog, tree swallows and barn swallows swooping and eating insects. Heard a Great Crested Flycatcher. Red-winged blackbirds calling. Wood anemones in the wood; quaker ladies in the open; white violets in the bog.
At Windswept bog, tree swallows and barn swallows swooping and eating insects. Heard a Great Crested Flycatcher. Red-winged blackbirds calling. Wood anemones in the wood; quaker ladies in the open; white violets in the bog.
Squam Swamp May 10 2014
Today was a great day seeing spring come to Squam Swamp. Josh and I heard a Great Crested Flycatcher and towhees, and saw a Black and white Warbler. The fiddlehead ferns were pushing winter away; the wood anemones blanketed the forest floor. We passed a young boy who was capturing salamanders from under dead logs.
Sunday, February 2, 2014
Snowy Isle
Snow covered Nantucket when we arrived on Friday, and gradually melted over the weekend. My first time to see seagull tracks in snow!
Frozen mirror pond in the Middle Moors
This snowy owl was sitting high on the road out to Great Point, flew as we approached. We saw him again on the way back
Mute Swans were out at the pond at Great Point. There were 6 hooded mergansers at Coskata Pond, and the usual assortment of herring and black backed gulls, sanderlings and eiders.
A Northern Harrier swooped over the heath and lichen near Wauwinet. Check out the ice floes at Wauwinet Harbor!
Low Beach view
Frozen mirror pond in the Middle Moors
This snowy owl was sitting high on the road out to Great Point, flew as we approached. We saw him again on the way back
Mute Swans were out at the pond at Great Point. There were 6 hooded mergansers at Coskata Pond, and the usual assortment of herring and black backed gulls, sanderlings and eiders.
A Northern Harrier swooped over the heath and lichen near Wauwinet. Check out the ice floes at Wauwinet Harbor!
Low Beach view
Saturday, January 11, 2014
Sunday, December 8, 2013
Winter Walk on the Beach from Hoick's Hollow to Sankaty Head.
1 snowy owl, 7 Harlequin ducks, 60 buffleheads, sanderlings and various gulls.
At the Birding group, saw bluebirds (and hooded mergansers and brant and northern harriers). Lichen and Spanish moss shining green in the mist on Saturday morning , and the red winterberries abound.
Friday, November 15, 2013
Beaver Moon
The Farmer's Almanac says the November full moon is called the Beaver Moon because it was the time for trappers to set their last traps before the winter's freeze.
Saw dozens of long-tail ducks flying low, first north, then south. White winged scoters on the water; sanderlings still on the beach, and many gulls, including a Bonaparte's gull. 2 dozen seals on my walk to Low Beach...many right at Low Beach.
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