Westspit Braddock Bay

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Dawn


Early bird

When the days are getting longer and the sun is arcing away from the northwest and coming to its most southerly point on the horizon, jump up at five am and check out the spectacle. Photo taken in June.

Today it's actually late July so the chicory and queen anne's lace are full out with white asters and fleabane in bud. A sandpiper keeps chasing us away from its nest and the absence of tenants at old Skinner's Marina has allowed more and more birds to take up residency on the docks. . . caspian terns, gulls, swallows . . . swan families are about . . . out farther into the bay, cormorants. The canadian geese are gone . . . heard about an eagle winging about. Today the sun moves more and more toward its winter station.
-- posted by Barbara

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