Summer in Machiasport
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Top heavy
/Least Tern chicks on Stratton Island, Maine pic.twitter.com/UCpGmucFY2
— Abby McBride (@sketchbiologist) July 13, 2016
I just kayaked out to Stratton Island for a one-night reunion tour, to relive my field work from this past May. Back then, the Least Tern adults had barely started to arrive for the season. Now there are already fledglings fluttering around. (These two chicks aren't quite at that stage yet...)
Of eiders and islands
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Dispatches from two weeks on a seabird nesting island off the coast of Maine.
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/Pine Point, Maine
A dead skate washed up on the beach. It's covered with flies and curling up as it dries out.
In related news, I just learned something really weird about dead skates...