The Hog and Puffin
/Sketches from a week as a “Puffin Islands” instructor for the National Audubon Society at Hog Island, Maine (with a trip to Eastern Egg Rock).
Along the beach
/Early morning *
Midday
Late afternoon
* Bigleaf lupine, Lupinus polyphyllus, is native to western North America. I was (naively) surprised to see that the word “invasive” is absent from this Wikipedia article about iconic children’s book Miss Rumphius.
Talk talk talk
/It was an alarmingly verbose week, with (a) an interview and (b) a sketching workshop during National Geographic Storytellers Summit, not to mention (c) an unrelated lecture for NYC Audubon. The interview is below.
And here’s the sketching session. For some reason the stream skipped right over the most important sketching tip (BE MESSY). Also, I feel obliged to clarify that tubenose seabirds like albatrosses, shearwaters, and storm-petrels are not all in the same taxonomic family; they are in the same order (PROCELLARIIFORMES).
Now, back to my customary limit of 10 words per day.
What’s in the bucket?
/Answer! Juvenile salmon, a.k.a. parr (the stage between fry and smolt).
Success for seabirds
/A story of rare good news for seabirds, thanks to conservationists in Mexico.