Clam Cove, 24 February 2010.
After that final little snow squall last evening passed, then came the drizzle and rain. It drizzled and rained all night, in fact, and by morning light it seemed like Mud Season had arrived a month early. The temperature? Mid-30s (F). Wind? Chilly. Birds? Hunkering down.
I did hear a chickadee off somewhere. And the voices of crows filtered down.
I felt stuck to my desk all day, but the weather didn’t exactly lure me out. Finally, perhaps an hour before dark, I headed to town. No gulls, no pigeons. Only humans felt obliged to move around—in their fossil-fuel-powered vehicles, of course—in such wet, sloppy weather. However, along one stretch of Route 1, I saw a robin flying fast across the roadway. The highlight of my day.
Just before sunset, at just about high tide, I stopped my pickup at Clam Cove, not a couple hundred yards from me. Rolled down the passenger window. Snapped a couple photos of the evening blue. And down below I saw a pair of black ducks floating and rolling in the waves.
Today’s List
Black-capped chickadee
American crow
American robin
Black duck
Tags: American crow, American robin, black duck, black-capped chickadee
