This will be mostly pictures. “Whew” you say. I get it.
But, furthermore, I wanted to share with all of you … OK. Okay! At least it’s not from or about politics. Well, it is, in a more philosophical sense. Ever notice how much literary and conversational ground the word “Philosophical” covers? You add that word into a statement or question and people get real quiet. “Existential” I think you can toss out there like nuts to squirrels, but “Philosophical” with a capital P makes people think you might be operating at some other level. Like, deep, man.
This morning I took Stella on an early 4X4 beach run down to the Norton Point cut (at Katama on Martha’s Vineyard). Allan and Soo I encountered coming back along the bay side track. They had picked up a couple knots and the regular shorebirds. When I got out to the cut, in with the Semi-palm Plovers was a single Pectoral Sandpiper making itself invisible in the dry seaweed. Occasionally one of the Semi-palms would shuffle over to roust the Pectoral, just enough to get it to move. It would move off, then, invariably, seek the company of another Semi-palm to resume the snooze.
Wrack line buddies:
Sometimes a closeup of a familiar species makes it look not so familiar. It is also sometimes remarkable how very small a Ring-billed looks next to a Herring Gull or a GBBG.
This situation does not look promising. Sorry, bud.
On the way home I drove through the big fields at the Farm Institute and there was a lone immature Snow Goose in with hordes of Canadas. I will be the first to admit, I must be on the top ten list of the world’s worst digiscopers. It’s a very long shot; and this is the best I’ve got.
Birds are cool! Lanny
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