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Can You Identify The Ships That You See Offshore On Cape Cod?

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So many times while we are looking out from Fort Hill or Hemenway Landing, we see these huge ships out on the horizon and wonder what they are. (Click on blog link for other photos.)

We downloaded a free app called MaritimeTraffic-Ship Tracking to see if we could learn anything. If you click on the green marker, you can see the name of the ship, what kind of ship it is, where it originated and where it’s going.

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We zoomed in to see it and it looked just like picture on the app.

Another ship that we saw was a research and survey vessel called the Henry B. Bigelow.

It’s been fun just playing around with the app and learning about some of the vessels that we see off-shore. Have you ever used this app?

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Very Rare Snow Geese At Fort Hill On Cape Cod.

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I had read on the Cape Cod Birders FB page about two Snow Geese that had been sighted at Fort Hill, so we went to investigate. These birds are very rare in this area. (Click on blog link for other photos.)

Out in the meadow were the two Snow Geese mingling with the Canada Geese that have been here all winter. They were pretty far out there but still easy to identify.

For many birders this is a “lifer,” but I had seen three of them a few years ago on a walk in my neighborhood. It was so strange in that I did not have my camera with me and the weather was so bad that it took me a week to walk by again. And there they still were… and I was fortunate to have my camera in hand.