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November 27, 2025

Eating apples

November 27, 2025/ Abby McBride
November 27, 2025/ Abby McBride/
Mammals, North America
pencil

Abby McBride

September 10, 2024

Scenes of Buzzards Bay

September 10, 2024/ Abby McBride

Pinwheel Gulls FROM A BYGONE ERA

Cape Cod CANAL

September 10, 2024/ Abby McBride/
Atlantic Ocean, Landscapes, Birds
field sketch, pen, pencil

Abby McBride

July 18, 2024

Welcome to Little Duck Island

July 18, 2024/ Abby McBride

A fog-filled session of retrieving tags from Leach’s Storm-Petrels (and eating wild strawberries) on Little Duck Island, which is (usually) uninhabited by humans.

July 18, 2024/ Abby McBride/
Atlantic Ocean, Conservation, Landscapes, Marine Life, People, Science, Weather, Birds, Plants
field sketch, pencil, pen, watercolor

Abby McBride

June 30, 2024

On a dig

June 30, 2024/ Abby McBride

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?

June 30, 2024/ Abby McBride/
North America, People, Plants, Mammals, Landscapes, Archaeology
field sketch, pencil

Abby McBride

June 27, 2024

Five phoebe babies

June 27, 2024/ Abby McBride

About to fledge, having handily survived their parents’ decision to nest on a light fixture inches above the main door to a human habitation

 
June 27, 2024/ Abby McBride/
Birds, North America, People
field sketch, pencil

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Top photo credit: Otto Whitehead