Lavender shadows
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Sea-lavender, Limonium carolinianum (Machiasport, ME)
This will all be underwater when the tide comes in.
Sketch blog — see all posts
Lagoon, part 2
/The lagoon, Onset Island, Massachusetts
See Lagoon, part 1.
Lagoon, part 1
/Sorry for disturbing you, hermit crab. See Lagoon, part 2.
The Larids
/East End Beach, Portland, Maine
Mostly ring-billed gulls and common terns, with a cameo by the tap-dancing herring gull (see Happy Feet, below).
Happy feet
/Before I started recording, the herring gull was legitimately scaring up a meal via this little tap dancing routine (I was kind of far away, but I could see an occasional silvery flash of something he grabbed out of the wet sand). Maybe performance anxiety doomed his success after that.
My favorite part is 0:27 when the ring-billed gull on the left starts halfheartedly imitating him, and then they both look embarrassed.
