On a Lifelong Journey to Learn my Place
The kids and I walked down to Crescent Harbor this morning to see the unusual currents flowing in and out of the harbor mouth as a series of small tsunamis reached the shore. The largest water level change I noted was probably about a bit over 1 foot, but it was an impressive amount of water to move in the few minutes it took for the water level to change.
Got out on a late afternoon hike to Herring Cove Trail. Trail was fairly icy, but doable.
The gathering of gulls at Swan Lake this time of year provides a good opportunity to practice identifying them.
The long-line season opens in March. Fish deliveries to the processing plants start soon after, attracting gulls that have started gathering for herring season to the slurry of waste that is pumped into the Channel.
This time of year gulls start showing up in larger numbers. Many loaf around Swan Lake, accepting hand outs from people there to feed the ducks. It’s been a cool March so far, and the lake remains mostly frozen – concentrating what birds are there to the open area of freshwater at the inflow from … Read more
