*Island gifts
– from The Field by Justine Kibbe December 17, 2018.
Archive for month: December, 2018
Rode up east for a quick count:
Harbor seals hunker on clump off Hungry Point.
*Snow flurries as I headed west.
– From the Field, Video Snippet, Justine Kibbe, December 13, 2018
Bundle up and head out to Big Club Golf Course!
This should be a good year for the Geminids. There’s not too much light from the Moon during the evening, and then the Moon sets around 10 or 11 p.m., leaving the sky dark for the peak hours until dawn.*
*skyandtelescope.com
– from The Field by Justine Kibbe December 13, 2018.
From House sparrow to Pheasant, birds of a feather maintain their plumage.
*Public bath, east end, Fishers Island.
– from The Field by Justine Kibbe December 12, 2018.
On days like this, East Harbor is perhaps fairest of them all.
Hungry Point’s rock “clumps” are typically the Harbor seals
favorite haul-out.
*so still you can just barely hear the bell bouy….
From the Field, Video Snippet, Justine Kibbe, December 11, 2018
Happy to see last weeks lone
Black-bellied plover now has a traveling companion…
*foraging within Sanctuary of Sands, southwestern tip, Fishers Island
From the Field, Video Snippet, Justine Kibbe, December 10, 2018
Just back from checking for any whale spout activity off Isabella; It’s calm enough.
I did see 6-8 brilliant bluebirds flit around me as I rode the path thru the Pickett Landfill-magical!
You can believe your eyes…
From the Field, Video Snippet, Justine Kibbe, December 7, 2018
Canada Geese Flotilla within Hay Harbor. “Oh Henry Ferguson Museum!” Gratitude for stewarding unique Big Stony habitat-all year round*.
*Loving our “Native land”….
From the Field, Video Snippet, Justine Kibbe, December 6, 2018