Memorial Day Weekend 2017

Highlights of birding:  Great Crested Flycatcher and Black and White Warbler in Squam Swamp
Purple Gallinule in Miacomet Pond;  Blackpoll warbler at Capaum Pond and Blackburnian Warbler at Something Natural!

Woodland Anemones

Squam Farm

Bluets

Favorite Cedar in Squam Swamp

Purple Gallinule

Spring Azure

Blue Eyed Grass on path to Stump Pond

Elusive Purple Gallinule at Miacomet Pond

Ear;y Spring April 30, 2017

Baby Turtle near Pout Pond

Bearberry and Lichen

Bearberry

Mayflower

Pout Pond

Squam Farm

Squam Swamp fiddleheads

Squam Farm Bluets/ Quaker Ladies

Squam Farm Amelanchier

Squam Farm Snake

Enchanted Squam Swamp

Squam Swamp Tupelos

Squam Swamp Woodland Anemones

Buffleheads Middle Moors

Late August

Summer flies so quickly...and with family and friends visiting,  I get less time to post  to my Nature blog.  This is my last weekend of the Nantucket summer. I took a bike ride through the Middle Moors yesterday and Josh and I hiked our Pout Ponds hike today.  The weather has been amazing,  and we even went to Radar beach for four hours yesterday!

On the ride the bayberry were in fruit and the first Blazing Stars were blooming.  I even spotted the Easter Silvery Aster,  Aster Concolor.  I did bring my camera for the hike.

The asters are out!  Heath Aster,  Aster ericoides

The combination of red grasses and goldenrod delights

Sessile Fruited Arrowhead at PoutPond -Sagittaria Rigida

Pout Pond

Pout Pond

Lichen in Summer

Chrysopsis Falcata-  Sickle Leaved Asters

Sweet Everlasting  -Gnaphalium Obtusifolium