I’m sure these Double-Crested Cormorants think they have the perfect place to perch at Boat Meadow Beach. What could be nicer than airing your feathers while sitting on a beautiful little sailboat enjoying the gorgeous views… and watching all the fish swim by while thinking about which one will be lunch?
Hmmmm… I wonder if the owners of the sailboat have the same thoughts…
After all of the birds inhabiting your bird houses and have had young ones who have fledged and everyone is gone, it’s time to clean out your bird houses. (Click on blog link for more photos.)
We were so surprised to see how different each nest was when we opened the bird houses. The family of Carolina Wrens had a nest made of little twigs with a few pieces of soft feathers.
I think the next nest was a Black-Capped Chickadee. It was a much softer nest.
And I’m not sure what was in this last one, but it too, was very soft.
Have you cleaned out your houses yet so they are ready for next spring? Or… maybe someone will move in for the winter to stay warm? We frequently have Downy Woodpeckers who spend the winter in our bird houses.
It was a beautiful morning and we had to be in Provincetown early, so we went over to take hike on the Beech Forest Trail. As we pulled in to the parking lot, there were all these bird photographers with their huge cameras aimed at this one particular tree.
Wow! There were hundreds of Cedar Waxwings flitting about from branch to branch. It was quite a sight to see! What a treat!
It seems like time we go for a walk on Coast Guard Beach, it looks so different. We walk there pretty frequently, so these changes are pretty dramatic each time.
This photograph is of the end of the beach near Nauset Spit. Earlier this summer, I posted photos of the beach being huge, but this time, it looks very narrow at median tide between high and low tide. You can be see, where the sand is wet, how high the tide comes in. Yikes! There is not much room for any birds to nest on the beach as the water goes almost as high as the grass.
Have you been down to the end recently? I wonder what it will look the next time we walk there…
