Welcome to Little Duck Island
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A fog-filled session of retrieving tags from Leach’s Storm-Petrels (and eating wild strawberries) on Little Duck Island, which is uninhabited by humans. Except two of us, for a few days.
On a dig
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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?
Five phoebe babies
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About to fledge, having handily survived their parents’ decision to nest on a light fixture inches above the main door to a human habitation
Fishcasters
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I wrote a story for Hakai Magazine about how US and Canadian herring fisheries are (and aren’t) paying overdue attention to warnings from seabirds.