Wild Nantucket

Moonrise, October 28 Late October in Nantucket:  Marshes brown, Tupelos leafless, brown scrub oak covering the moors.  The Goldenrod is gone...

  Masquetuck These past two weekends,  Tropical Storms Lee and Ophelia have ruled.  Lee brought high winds but no rain,  and Ophelia brought...

  Foggy September 10 sunrise In early September,  the Bluff Walk abounds with  Queen Anne’s Lace, goldenrod, autumn clematis, and rose hips....

South Polar Skua, Stercorarius maccormicki  I t’s hard to believe it’s the end of my Nantucket summer: the northwest wind has not yet begun ...

  Pearl Crescent butterfly  on a Sweet Everlasting August 11:  At Masquetuck, a lone  red eyed vireo continues to sing.  The marsh is changi...

  Sweet Pepper, clethra alnifolia I set off to hike Norwood Farm in search of smelling the sweet pepper, clethra alnifolua, in bloom. It is ...