Mostly clear early with increasing clouds and becoming overcast through the afternoon. Later this evening light snow began to fall. Light winds. Temperatures in the 30s.
My parents and Connor flew south on the late morning flight. We had breakfast at the Mean Queen before going to the airport.
After the airport, Rowan and I went for a drive to both ends of the road.
I stopped at Herring Cove to check some roadside rock outcrops for mosses. I hadn’t worn my naturalist vest. Without the reading glasses I use for getting a closer look at things, it wasn’t so easy to see clearly.
While poking around, I noticed a trail down to the shoreline. It isn’t clear to me why it was there. The tide was up, so perhaps when it’s out farther, there’s access to a different area of the shoreline.
I made observations of epiphytes on the alders that were growing out over the water. One was too tightly affixed to the bark, and since I didn’t have a knife (also in my vest), I couldn’t collect it.
I had a photo and calendar to deliver this afternoon, so went back out again with my naturalist vest.
The tide was even higher on this visit, but I was able to get to the branch and collect the moss from earlier. On my way down I startled something in the water, it snorted more like I think of for sea lions, but the location seemed odd. I did later see a seal surface at the same location, so presumably I just offended it with my clumsy trip down the slope.
By the time I was out, the clouds had started to move over. They hadn’t completely closed over into a solid overcast. I liked the pattern of what I saw. I’m sure it has a name, though I’m not sure what it is.
My iNaturalist Observations for Today
