The Hog and Puffin
/Sketches from a week as a “Puffin Islands” instructor for the National Audubon Society at Hog Island, Maine (with a trip to Eastern Egg Rock).
Along the beach
/Early morning *
Midday
Late afternoon
* Bigleaf lupine, Lupinus polyphyllus, is native to western North America. I was (naively) surprised to see that the word “invasive” is absent from this Wikipedia article about iconic children’s book Miss Rumphius.
Kleptoparasites of the high seas
/A story I wrote about jaegers.
Scientists tracked three different species of jaegers from a single arctic breeding site and found out just how far-traveling these mischievous seabirds can be: https://t.co/wS4dgjCed6 @sketchbiologist
— Cornell Lab (@CornellBirds) May 16, 2022