Farewell to Shoals

Click either tweet below to see a 13-part Twitter thread from my art residency on the Isles of Shoals in the Gulf of Maine. More posts on Instagram, Facebook, and my art gallery.

Lobster wave🦞 goodbye to the stupendous students, faculty, and staff @ShoalsMarineLab. #artistinresidence pic.twitter.com/2mSCUXZRsJ

— Abby McBride (@sketchbiologist) August 5, 2021

Bonus tweet that I forgot to put in the thread!

Gull in reverse @ShoalsMarineLab pic.twitter.com/90AGR1TnSx

— Abby McBride (@sketchbiologist) August 4, 2021

What’s in the bucket?

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Getting my feet wet in salmon restoration, in one of the very few U.S. rivers where wild Atlantic salmon are still hanging on. Guess what’s in the bucket! Atlantic salmon are part of a whole suite of threatened fish species that spawn in rivers and spend their adult lives at sea (or vice versa). These “sea-run fish” remind me a lot of seabirds in the way they form a link between terrestrial and marine ecosystems. 🎥 Thanks to Zach Sheller @downeastsalmon! #atlanticsalmon #searunfish #downeast #maine #conservation #ecology #wildlife #nature #newengland #fish #atlantic #salmon #fisheries #river #riparian #watershed #marineecology #seabirds #salmonstory #salmonsketches #sketch #biology

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Answer! Juvenile salmon, a.k.a. parr (the stage between fry and smolt).

Clamming

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September mudflats, with clammer #maine #intertidal #watercolor #sketch #pencil #art #painting #drawing #coast #ocean #nature #september

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Stop, drop, and roll

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Today in “scientists like pictures too(?)”...my illustration of ‘Generalized fire response strategies in plants and animals’ by Juli G. Pausas in @oikosjournal. . (Visit oikosjournal.org/forum to see the paper and more illustrations.) #ecology #art #conservation #illustration #wildlife #painting #animal #botany #trees #seeds #birds #ornithology #mammals #herps #fire #forestfire #oikosforum #scienceinpictures

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Shipping out

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Departing New Bedford on the ferry to Cuttyhunk Island #fishing #boats #newbedford #cuttyhunk #ferry #buzzardsbay #massachusetts #pencil #sketch #art

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