Sqaum Swamp Spring May 21 2016

Squam Swamp

Cinnamon Fern Rising

Early Canada Mayflower

Maeanthemum Canadense

Quaker Ladies, Hedyotis caerulea

Star flowers, Trientalis borealis, cover the forest floor

Tupelos

The Rapids

Squam Swamp violet, viola lanceolata

Daffodil Weekend

April 29-May 1, 2016

Friday beach walk to Sconset:  200 black scoters diving,  2 northern gannets swooping and one seal a-swimming

Sunday Hike at Norwood Pond:  Ponds overfull,  with Almanac Pond flooded over both approaches

Amelanchier-  Shad Blow- brightening the Moors

Shad Blow-  Norwood Farm

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Towhee in Shad at Norwood Farm

Birds foot violets 

....and Buttercups

Female Bufflehead 

Fiddlehead emerging

Mayflowers-  not yet blooming on May 1

Almanac Pond-  spring flood

 

Columbus Day Weekend 2015

Squam Swamp

 Very quiet in Squam swamp this weekend; most of the birds have gone south.  Crows squabbling over territory near Post 40;  flocks of robins.  

No mushrooms....

While the goldrenrod was still lighting up the landscape last weekend,  most of the blooms of goldenrod on the east end of the island are now gone.

Headed over to hike the Ram Pasture on Sunday

To See the Swall-nado

At the Sunday morning birding club,  the top spots were a whimbrel and a summer tanager.  Nice to see black bellied plovers, greater yellow legs,  yellow-rumps and cedar waxwings along with harrier.


Birds off the bluff :  white winged scoters flying,  black-backed and herring gulls,  sanderlings, semi-palmated sandpipers.   Seven seals-a-swimming.

Fall Weekend: October 1-3, 2015

A beautiful stormy weekend,  with most of the ferries cancelled because of high winds in the 30 plus mph range. Great color starting on the moors,  goldenrod and asters brightening the landscape.  

 

Pout Ponds

Pout Ponds

Stormy Sea from the Bluff

Last roses on the bluff walk