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July 18, 2024

Welcome to Little Duck Island

July 18, 2024/ Abby McBride

A fog-filled session of retrieving tags from Leach’s Storm-Petrels (and eating wild strawberries) on Little Duck Island, which is (usually) uninhabited by humans.

July 18, 2024/ Abby McBride/
Atlantic Ocean, Conservation, Landscapes, Marine Life, People, Science, Weather, Birds, Plants
field sketch, pencil, pen, watercolor

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June 30, 2024

On a dig

June 30, 2024/ Abby McBride

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?

June 30, 2024/ Abby McBride/
North America, People, Plants, Mammals, Landscapes, Archaeology
field sketch, pencil

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June 01, 2024

Hobblebush

June 01, 2024/ Abby McBride

Viburnum lantanoides

June 01, 2024/ Abby McBride/
North America, Plants
field sketch, pen

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May 31, 2024

Native species of spring

May 31, 2024/ Abby McBride
 

Starflower (Lysimachia borealis, which I learned as
Trientalis borealis back in the day)

 

American redstart (Setophaga ruticilla) sketched from life,
a rare event for a fidgety subject

May 31, 2024/ Abby McBride/
Birds, Plants
pen, watercolor, watercolor pencil, field sketch

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May 27, 2024

Three days later

May 27, 2024/ Abby McBride

Aquilegia sp.

May 27, 2024/ Abby McBride/
North America, Plants
watercolor pencil, pen

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Top photo credit: Otto Whitehead