October 20

October 20, 2009 by OrientSee.

 Living in New ngland inspires paranoia. Two days ago we had storms and snow. Today it was sixty, a day to treasure.  I shudder to think what’s next.

I was walking over to Belle Isle. When I found this abandoned  child’s shoe. Taking the part for the whole, I just imagined a fretful kid losing the shoe and trying to get his mother to stop.

Rosie’s Thicket is still green and leafy. There is surprisingly lots of bugs still around even with the recent storms and cold weather. This spider was basking in the sun and gathering a meal.

We’ve had several days of astronomical high tides and even though they are subsiding, the tides are still reaching further up than usual.

Out in the south flats, this pair was resting in the sun. The big herons seem to tolerate each other well. This Blue and Great White probably play poker together on Saturday nights.

With the high water, the egrets were especially active hunting for sticklebacks.

This pod and nut just reminded me so much of a Sesame St. character but who?

The rest of the walk was quiet. There was Sharp-shinned Hawk cruising across the foxtails and a Red Tail Hawk out on Bennington St. Another Great Blue Heron was out beyond the Boardwalk.

The Beachmont portion of the creek was full of October sun and color.

I got a glimpse of my first Bufflehead Duck of the season. They are a very small active diving species and fun to watch but hard to photograph.

A Black Duck cruised out from behind some reeds for a real sense of October.

A warm day full of light and even a few butterflies.

Ciao!

-Jorge

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