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Sunday Sunflowers

Howdee all,

This past week we celebrated Jeff’s Moms 90th birthday. She wanted to go to Heritage gardens in Sandwich, Ma.

While there I took these sunflower photos.

Bees love sunflowers…

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 Heritage gardens_058      Beautiful sunflower just opening..Heritage gardens_067Heritage gardens_066This sunflower below reminded me of a hat..so I decided to try it on..

I checked first for bees..Heritage gardens_064 Does anyone know if these are Sunflower bees? I didn’t think the wings were narrow enough to be sunflower bees.  Heritage gardens_053

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Happy Sunny Sunflower Sunday to you all!

South Beach, Chatham ..Birding

Howdee all,

When in Chatham we took a boat shuttle from Stage Harbor to South beach.

The shuttle cost is 15 dollars round trip per person.

We left at 8am

Our main goal was to see the Red-necked Stint

a rare bird that was seen a few days ago …IMG_0009A foggy morning

The larger boat is the shuttle that took us to South beach.IMG_0007  South Beach..

We have walked to this area in the past via Lighthouse beach.

12 mile RTsouth beach birding_004

   Willet walking the shallowssouth beach birding_005 south beach birding_006 Looking north…. 

south beach birding_011 Does this lobster claw look big or small?south beach birding_012 HUge!south beach birding_013 i think he is clamming…..south beach birding_015 This Black-backed gull is munching on a large Horseshoe crab.south beach birding_017  Looking for the Stintsouth beach birding_025Is it here amongst the Dowitchers?south beach birding_038Not here south beach birding_045 not here….south beach birding_046Nope….not here south beach birding_047 Two men clamming..south beach birding_048 Piping Plover..we saw many plover families…

they nest in this area…south beach birding_066 Fog burning off over this shallow pond.south beach birding_078Bright Green algae…  south beach birding_080  south beach birding_088We walked the long shallow inlet..mucky and smelly…  south beach birding_095 A few Oyster catchers and families…south beach birding_097 Dunes   south beach birding_102thousands of horseshoe crab shells…  south beach birding_105  south beach birding_107Its low tide…still no sign of the stint….south beach birding_106 We head back to catch the 2pm shuttle..south beach birding_109It has been a beautiful calm,cool morning on South beach… 

We never did see the Stint..

But we enjoyed the peaceful walk….south beach birding_111  That evening at the families home we saw a lovely sunset while sitting out on the deck.

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Some of the birds seen that morning

Willet
Piping plover
Barn swallow
Song sparrow
Cormorant
Black backed gull
American pipit
Least sandpiper
Horned lark
Oystercatcher
Least tern
Herring gull
Short billed dowitcher
Semi-palmated sandpiper
Laughing gull
Hudsonian godwit
Dunlin
Snowy egret
Common tern
Savannah sparrow

Lighthouse beach,Chatham, MA

Howdee all,

July 4th Jeff and I went for a walk on Lighthouse beach.

sunset chatham_003 It was a beautiful evening

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Soft clouds ..

sunset chatham_004 We went looking for a few birdssunset chatham_008We walked from the ocean side to the bay sunset chatham_009 sunset chatham_010Bayside  sunset chatham_014 Mudflats.. sunset chatham_016 sunset chatham_017We saw a few birdies…sunset chatham_021   Not many photos of birds…they were a bit too far for my baby camera to reach…

I did take allot of landscape photos…sunset chatham_026What I enjoyed most that night was being in nature..sunset chatham_022 sunset chatham_032Enjoying the changes in the night sky…sunset chatham_030   The gulls glowing in the setting sun…sunset chatham_036Distant gull photos..sunset chatham_035 I kinda like the soft out of focus painting effect.sunset chatham_037

Sunset photos …next post.

Chatham, MA… 4th of July parade

Howdee all,

I hope you all had a wonderful 4th of July.

chatham parade_004 While in Chatham..I like taking a morning walk to pick up a coffee and scone.

This particular morning we found the streets lined with empty chairs.chatham parade_008

I don’t know what time people started to bring them ..we were in town around eight.chatham parade_003

The parade started at nine thirty.chatham parade_010 The chairs were no longer empty when we came back into town.

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    Let the parade begin!chatham parade_029chatham parade_013

Rockport, Ma. with Steve and Lena



Howdee all…
Had a great day in Rockport with Steve and Lena….
it was a scorcher….but fun. Quaint old Fishing village town ….now artists and tourists…and fishermen ….loved the flowers..

Salem, Ma. July 4th…concert and fireworks

howdy all,

Jeff and I had a very nice 4th, celebrating first with a lovely picnic at Don and Adas in Salem.
Great company, food and weather……I was a bit lazy and didnt take any photos of the picnic…
I did take video of the Concert and Fireworks and the short walk back to our car.
Hope you all had a happy fourth….