On a Lifelong Journey to Learn my Place
Animals
It was a lovely spring day today, though I did not end up spending much time out and about enjoying the weather. Last night I was up until after 2am taking pictures of northern lights (which hopefully I’ll get posted before too long), and had to get up relatively early this morning to record a … Read more
This past winter a flock of geese could be found out at Starrigavan. As best I could tell, they were all Canada Geese, though some of them seemed distinctly smaller than others. The picture above shows two of the mis-matched geese. What stands out to me is the distinctly shorter neck and maybe smaller head … Read more
Last week Rowan found a small white nudibranch at John Brown’s Beach. It was one I had not seen before (which isn’t not particularly notable, since I haven’t spent a lot of time on marine life), but it seemed reasonably distinctive. However, it was not quite as easy to figure out as I had hoped. … Read more
Spent some time birding today. At Halibut Point Rec there were many ducks near shore, no doubt gathered to feed on herring eggs. The birds weren’t the only ones there for the eggs, as quite a number of folks were on the beach with rakes, shovels, buckets and/or wheelbarrows gathering up seaweed with herring eggs. … Read more
Black-clawed Crab (Lophopanopeus bellus) is a species I’ve seen a couple of times now at John Brown’s Beach. I am uncertain how common it is in general. Rowan found this one during a recent low tide, and since I didn’t recognize it off the top of my head, I decided to take some pictures. Although … Read more
We spent some time down at Sage Beach this morning where Connor gathered some seaweed for the garden and Rowan looked for an (apparently) unusual type of seaweed she found on Monday. Connor got 5 buckets of seaweed, but no luck on the unusual seaweed. The herring had spawned a bit along the beach and … Read more