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Beautiful Black And White Common Loon At Great Pond On Cape Cod

As we were hiking at Wiley Pond which abuts Great Pond, I saw a bird in the water out of the corner of my eye. I ran to the closest beachy area where I could see what was out there and there was this gorgeous Common Loon swimming around.  He was just beautiful.

He spread his wings out on the water so I could get a better photograph and then swam about.

Have you ever seen a Common Loon? Exquisite patterns on his body!

 

Huge Horseshoe Crab At The Salt Pond in Eastham On Cape Cod

We were taking a walk around the Salt Pond by the Visitor’s Center the other day when we saw this huge horseshoe crab right at the high tide mark. Oh no! It was sitting in the grass and needed to get back to the water.

We hemmed and hawed about how to get it back in the water and came up with a good plan. As Phil lifted it up very carefully so as not to scare it, we realized it was only the shell. Ha! Ha!

The joke was on us!! He really had us fooled!! It looked so real!