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Stunning Scarlet Pimpernel Wildflowers At Fort Hill On Cape Cod.

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The Scarlet Pimpernel growing on the sides of the trail at Fort Hill are absolutely stunning this year! (Click on blog link for other photo.)

I have seen a few of them over the years at Fort Hill, but only small, little clumps of them with 2-3 flowers. As you can see in the 2nd photograph, this was a pretty big bush of them.

Two interesting facts that I Iearned:  1. “The Scarlet Pimpernel flowers open only when the sun shines, and even close in overcast conditions.” 2. “If consumed, it can be toxic to livestock and humans. Toxicity level ranges from virtually nontoxic to fatally toxic and appears to correlate with summer rainfall levels.”

Have you seen the Scarlet Pimpernel at Fort Hill?

 

 

 

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First Encounter Beach Dune On Cape Cod… One Big Problem!

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The sky behind the dunes at First Encounter Beach the other morning was just spectacular! I stopped to take a photograph but there was one big problem… I couldn’t get my shadow out of the photo!  (Click on blog for other photo.)

I tried stepping aside and got a photograph with just the dune but the sky in the background isn’t nearly as pretty as if you take the dune straight-on.

 

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Nesting Piping Plovers At Coast Guard Beach On Cape Cod.

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If you take a walk down Coast Guard Beach, you will see most of the upper beach to the right is cordoned off  with stakes and string to keep the public off of that area. (Click on blog link for other photo.)

Within the area you can see little cages that have been put over the nesting Piping Plovers so that a predator cannot reach the eggs or the chicks. The birds can easily get in and out.

We are so lucky that these precious little  Piping Plovers come back every year to nest on Coast Guard Beach!