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The Daily Bucket: gold and greenbrier - Halibut Point State Park in autumn [1]
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Date: 2022-11-10
This is a 5 minute 36 second video (not mine) of Cape Ann—including Halibut Point—and greater Ipswich Bay, Massachusetts. I imagine that the gulls at Halibut are some of the happiest birds in the world...as you can see at 1:23 in the video, they have the freshwater quarry lake (Babson Farm Quarry) to bathe in, and the ocean just a short distance away. Whenever I visit there, I see Great Black-backed and Herring Gulls having a joyful-looking party in the lake, as well as gulls on the ocean. Many of my favorite places are in this video (Granite Pier and Gloucester waterfront which I’ve posted lots of Eider pics from, Good Harbor Beach, Magnolia, Rockport in general...)
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A photo from early September, to show how many leaves had already fallen then, probably because of the drought:
Overlook #4 by the Quarry lake
The first sea ducks arriving, or passing through...White-winged Scoters over the ocean, late September 2022
These are some photos I took at Halibut in early and mid October. The biggest change I noticed in that time is that the vegetation finally started looking less dry, and there was more color. I didn’t see many birds on either day, aside from Blue Jays, White-throated Sparrows and Cardinals (the latter two I heard more than saw). The Green Heron that I often see there left at the end of summer. I’ve seen one Red-tailed Hawk there since summer, and the only sea ducks I’ve seen so far have been small flocks of White-winged Scoters. The Common Eiders that stayed for summer seem to have left, and others have not yet arrived. I did see gulls, as usual, and there were still some Double-crested Cormorants.
Early October, 2022
path to a small pond
Later in October:
Babson Farm Quarry Lake
Greenbrier along the path to the ocean
view from the path to Overlook #7
view from Overlook #7
Greenbrier
Greenbrier
Greenbrier
sign on Bayview Trail at sunset
Overlook #7 at sunset
Overlook #7
Another day, in late October…
Hickory tree
Greenbrier in the forest
Greenbrier
I’m not sure what this is
Bayview Trail sign
Some of the few birds I saw in that area the past month or so, not at Halibut Point but at a cemetery close to it…
White-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch
Red-breasted Nuthatch (first one I had ever seen), in the same tree as the White-breasted (zoom)
Northern Flicker
Blue Jay
Eastern Bluebird in a puddle
It’s 55° F and sunny here on the North Shore of Massachusetts this morning. It’s been getting colder but we still haven’t had our first frost, which we would usually have by early October. I went to Halibut Point yesterday...some sea ducks have arrived! I saw a flock of Common Eiders, a possible Long-tailed Duck, and at least half a dozen Harlequins.
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