15 July 2023
Ultimate week at Cape Cod I got here away with many impressions and a couple of pictures of things-that-stand-still. The clouds above Cape Cod Bay and the shallow waves at low tide made an attractive image on 11 July.
Chicken pictures are past my cell phone’s capacity so I’ve borrowed from Wikimedia Commons for example. The Best possible Birds indubitably had been piping plovers and their chicks at Sea Gull Seaside. So lovable!
The most typical songbird at the Cape is the grey catbird — as commonplace as robins are in Pittsburgh.
Ospreys had been all the time overhead. Maximum of them had nestlings on the point of fledge.
Best possible Insect was once an ebony damselfly noticed at Stony Brook Mill Website online with Bob Kroeger who took this picture.
Cape Cod has *rather a lot* of rabbits in every single place. I didn’t assume to take a photograph when a rabbit was once close by. Are you able to see it in dappled coloration in the midst of this picture?
The plants in this noticed wintergreen (Chimaphila maculata) had now not but opened on 6 July.
A Existence Flower: American cow-wheat (Melampyrum lineare) within the dry upland pine wooded area at Wellfleet Bay. Amazingly it’s semi-parasitic with leaves for photosynthesis and roots for pulling vitamins from pines, poplars, sugar maples, crimson oaks and low-bush blueberries.
Greenery we by no means see in Pittsburgh –> seaweed.
Our circle of relatives prefers the seashores on Cape Code Bay the place there’s numerous house to unfold out at low tide. At top tide all however the a ways edge is underwater.
And the waves are shallow like the ones at Lake Erie.
On the finish of our keep it was once 90 levels for a few days. Now not such a lot amusing within the solar. Regardless that it’s great to trip I’m happy to be house.
(pictures by way of Kate St. John, Bob Kroeger and from Wikimedia Commons)