When it’s low tide on Coast Guard Beach, there are a couple of sandbars that huge groups of seals like to monopolize. (Click on blog link for other photo.)
You can see them lazing around and picking their heads up every once in a while making their distinct wailing noise. Have you seen them at Coast Guard Beach? There sure are lots of them!
It was fun watching all of the Red Squirrels running around the woods on the Beech Forest Trail in Provincetown. (Click on blog link for other photo.)
I loved the photo of the squirrel eating the buds on the top of the tree and then, another one of the squirrel scurrying around on the dead logs. It’s a great place to see wildlife and birds.
I’ve seen raccoons in our yard many times, but it’s usually at dawn or dusk. This guy was searching under the bird feeders in the middle of the afternoon. (Click on blog link for other photos.)
I got a couple of photos but when he saw me he ran up into a nearby tree. We watched him climb to the very top and then jump branches to another tree. I had no idea they could do that!
He was pretty high up as the tree is probably 50+ feet tall. He kept stopping to look at me as he climbed higher and higher.
We found this great new app called Inaturalist, that will identify just about anything living out in nature. It has been so much fun to use. (Click on blog link for other photo.)
You just hold your iphone up to a flower or plant or bird, or any species in nature and it will tell you what it is. It is so cool and so educational. I have learned so many new species in the past couple of weeks!
It’s just fun to experiment and identify the different kinds of species that you see every day along the trails! Have you ever used the Inaturalist app?
We were taking a hike at Fort Hill the other day when we saw a little Vole scampering down the middle of the trail out by the meadow. And then, as quick as anything, this little Weasel darted out of the underbrush and dragged the Vole back in. (Click on blog link for other photo.)
This Weasel smacked the Vole a few times and then came out onto the trail to check us out. We just clicked away.
It was a pretty cool experience as it happened so fast and we had never seen a Weasel at Fort Hill before. Have you?
