Yellow Moors

It's yellow time in Nantucket... the moors are covered with  yellow Hudsonia,  the Scotch broom  is popping along the bike paths, and the first ox-eye daisies are showing their centers. 

 

 

At Masquetuck, Black and White Warbler seen;  many yellowthroats heard,  and a Great Crested Flycatcher heard.    I flushed a Little Blue Heron  on Saturday June 1.  Wild blackberries and bluets blooming.    Cow-wheat covering the understory.

 

 

 

At Squam Swamp, the birding group saw a red-eyed vireo after listening to its persistent song.  Charlotte an I went in to the swamp to seethe Jack in the Pulpits.  We birders also saw an American redstart at the Wauwinet and Squam Road intersection.   Wild geraniums dotted the understory.

 

 

Evening walk in Squam Swamp:  Fiddleheads and Wood Anemones

Weekend Birds- Oct 19-21, 2012

Friday afternoon

Cormorant

100 Gannets,  flying north to south in groups from 2-10

Peregrine  Falcon  

20 ducks flying south

Great black backed gull

Herring gulls

2 Laughing gulls

Goldfinches, House finches, song sparrows, cardinals

Monarch butterflies  

 

Saturday
Golden crowned kinglet heard in Squam Swamp
More gannets!
Gray tailed Tattler at UMass Field Station
7 egrets
Kingfisher
Greater yellowlegs

Sunday
Whimbrel at U Mass Field Station
Green winged teal
Greater yellowlegs, black bellied plovers
Golden crowned kinglet seen in Sconset beach pines
Harlequin duck pair off Sankaty Head
Kestrel hunting on the bluff
Loon

 

Eiders

More Fall Mushrooms from Sconset

Shrooms on the Beach in Sconset

Shrooms on the Beach, October 21, 2012