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Baby Swans. Swans hatching from their eggs is the glorious end to the long drawn out vigil that the female swan has endu...
05/26/2024

Baby Swans. Swans hatching from their eggs is the glorious end to the long drawn out vigil that the female swan has endured for over a month. Severely weakened and in need of food, the pen (and cob) will spend just a couple of days at the nest with her hatchlings, before their great life adventure starts.

Cygnets keep their name until they're a year old at which time they have two options for names. An adult male swan is ca...
05/26/2024

Cygnets keep their name until they're a year old at which time they have two options for names. An adult male swan is called a cob and an adult female swan is called a pen.

Pen & Cygnets
05/26/2024

Pen & Cygnets

Barred Owl came to the back yard last evening. He’s got my eyes ....
04/09/2024

Barred Owl came to the back yard last evening.
He’s got my eyes ....

first Turtle sighting of 24.Home is wherever you are, said Turtle.How near or how far you will never arrive where home w...
04/09/2024

first Turtle sighting of 24.

Home is wherever you are, said Turtle.
How near or how far you will never arrive where home waits or lies.
You’ve never left home to go anywhere you were not.
So here you are home, where you stand, where you ran.
When you got there what did you find in the place that is new?
The same face in the reflection of the reflector.
All who you meet an image of yourself to greet for the first time.
If you can see you in the new, in the magic that is you.
You will be home there too, as you were when you left to escape.
Your home you’ve never left.
Turtle screamed in the forest to anyone who would hear.
Stop running.
Home is wherever you are, said turtle.

MSJ 4/8/24

Red Tailed Hawks Mating. (This was amazing to see)In early spring, red-tailed hawks take to the sky to begin their annua...
03/11/2024

Red Tailed Hawks Mating. (This was amazing to see)
In early spring, red-tailed hawks take to the sky to begin their annual mating rituals which include elaborate courtship displays and acrobatic flights. They mate for life, but when one of the pair dies it is quickly replaced. The red-tailed hawk is found throughout North America and is one of the country's most common and easily identified hawks. The birds are mature and begin mating at two years of age.

Courtship
Red-tailed hawks begin their courtship flights by circling slowly at heights of 1,000 feet or more. The male approaches the female from above, touching her briefly. This sets off a series of tumbles and dives at speeds of nearly 100 miles per hour. They may lock bills or talons, and the male may pass food to the female. When the female touches down on a perch the male spirals down to join her and mating takes place.

Common Merganser FemaleCommon Mergansers spend the breeding season in northern forested habitats near large lakes and ri...
02/13/2024

Common Merganser Female

Common Mergansers spend the breeding season in northern forested habitats near large lakes and rivers. Since they nest in cavities of large trees, breeding Common Mergansers are usually found in mature forests. They spend winters on large lakes, rivers, and reservoirs in the southern and coastal regions of their breeding range, and in additional wintering grounds across the northern and western United States. They tend to prefer freshwater wintering habitat over saltwater, but they may winter in coastal bays, estuaries, and harbors.

The Little Pink House:What about the Spite House Legend? ​A positive about the spite house legend is that does help peo...
02/08/2024

The Little Pink House:
What about the Spite House Legend? ​

A positive about the spite house legend is that does help people discover The Pink House. Unfortunately though, some judge the house itself for an embellished story about its earliest residents from nearly 100 years ago!

Let’s go over what the legend says. There are several versions online, but we have chosen this widely shared version from Atlas Obscura . Please note: We have never found an article on the Spite House legend that credited factual sources.
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Spite House Legend (from Atlas Obscura)
"THIS ABANDONED HOUSE LOOMS OVER a salt marsh, its pale pink paint looking like a mirror of the colorful sunsets that so often streak the sky. It’s a celebrated local landmark, one with a definite air of mystery and romance.

But the picturesque house’s story is not at all romantic. It’s a spite house, a divorced man’s way of getting the final say against his ex-wife.

According to town lore, the house was built while a local couple was in the process of finalizing their divorce in the 1920s. As part of the divorce agreement, the wife required her husband to build an exact replica of their family home for her. But unfortunately for her, she didn’t specify exactly where.
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Her soon-to-be-ex went along with her stipulations and built a home identical to the one they once shared. It would’ve been a sweet, amicable gesture—had he not purposely built it atop an isolated salt marsh. Even the plumbing used salt water instead of fresh water, making the abode uninhabitable."

If you compare that story with the facts on record that both Support the Pink House and the Newburyport Preservation Trust researched, you can see where the story could be interpreted... but also where there is just no evidence at all!

https://www.supportthepinkhouse.com/pink-house-history.html

Landscape shot; no wildlife in this one that I know of. Everything is so still after the snow, they are some of my favor...
01/26/2024

Landscape shot; no wildlife in this one that I know of.
Everything is so still after the snow, they are some of my favorite moments to find happening, when no one else is seeing it.

A few more of the female harrier over the salt marsh.Breeding Northern Harriers are most common in large, undisturbed tr...
01/26/2024

A few more of the female harrier over the salt marsh.

Breeding Northern Harriers are most common in large, undisturbed tracts of wetlands and grasslands with low, thick vegetation. They breed in freshwater and brackish marshes, lightly grazed meadows, old fields, tundra, dry upland prairies, drained marshlands, high-desert shrubsteppe, and riverside woodlands across Canada and the northern United States. Western populations tend to breed in dry upland habitats, while northeastern and Midwestern populations tend to breed in wetlands. During winter they use a range of habitats with low vegetation, including deserts, coastal sand dunes, pasturelands, croplands, dry plains, grasslands, old fields, estuaries, open floodplains, and marshes.

Northern Harriers are the most owl-like of hawks (though they’re not related to owls). They rely on hearing as well as v...
01/24/2024

Northern Harriers
are the most owl-like of hawks (though they’re not related to owls). They rely on hearing as well as vision to capture prey. The disk-shaped face looks and functions much like an owl’s, with stiff facial feathers helping to direct sound to the ears.
Juvenile males have pale greenish-yellow eyes, while juvenile females have dark chocolate brown eyes. The eye color of both sexes changes gradually to lemon yellow by the time they reach adulthood.

One more of the eagle in flight. the rest of the shots I got were either still on a branch or blurry. but I always tell ...
01/17/2024

One more of the eagle in flight. the rest of the shots I got were either still on a branch or blurry. but I always tell myself if I get one good shot the day was worth it.
Also on the Exeter river.

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