Wild Nantucket

April 22, 2021  Why do I write this blog? I write because of the surprises I find nearly every day by observing nature closely.  I don't...

Even though it stormed last night, with .6 inch of rain in 12 hours, the ponds are low. My "tour de ponds" bike ride of 10.6 mil...

Red-Tailed Hawk,  Buteo Jamacensis   Hiked Norwood Farm today in some light rain showers. Trees are still bare, highlighting a pearl grey la...

  Clark's Cove Josh and I hiked the Head of the Plains to Clark’s Cove  on March 27.   I saw my first 2021 Eastern Phoebe on Nantucket, ...

March 11, 2021  46 degrees Today is the anniversary of The World Health Organization declaring the pandemic.  The US had about 1300 cases of...

  It’s the anniversary  of Gov Baker’s state of emergency.  We feel the passage of this past year intensely, with the disruption of routines...

  I started the day with frost underfoot, grasses golden and more blue-sky.  Back in Nantucket,  a polar snap has frozen ponds and limited t...