Scenes of Buzzards Bay
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Pinwheel Gulls FROM A BYGONE ERA
Cape Cod CANAL
Welcome to Little Duck Island
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A fog-filled session of retrieving tags from Leach’s Storm-Petrels (and eating wild strawberries) on Little Duck Island, which is uninhabited by humans. Except two of us, for a few days.
On a dig
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Sketching in the coastal forest with students of the Maine Archaeology Field School, taught by Dr. Bonnie Newsom. The site: a colonial homestead adjoining a Passamaquoddy shell heap. Is that a horse jaw in the pit?
Five phoebe babies
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About to fledge, having handily survived their parents’ decision to nest on a light fixture inches above the main door to a human habitation
Haptophyte
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Today’s drawing was made possible by Plankton Net, “an open access repository for plankton-related information” that has about 15,000 images available to draw from (thus mitigating the artist’s need to use dubious substitutes as models for creatures that are too small to see).
This is a coccolithophore, representing the haptophytes, one of the branches of eukaryotes commonly known as algae.
The original SEM image is Coccolithus pelagicus ssp. braarudii by Richard Lampitt and Jeremy Young (© Jeremy Young, The Natural History Museum, London) https://planktonnet.awi.de/ CC BY 2.5