Showing posts with label Lazuli Bunting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lazuli Bunting. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Birds, Waves, and Blood (dedicated to Steven Tucker)


Here is a photo of the 60th island record of Baltimore Oriole, found this morning by one James Tietz, master bird-finder.  Today was slow, bird-wise, and northwest winds forecast for the next week promise more of the same.  But a slow trickle of interesting birds has kept us entertained--and shark watch starts on September 1st!





This Lazuli Bunting popped into a net today and is displayed here by Dan Maxwell, whose finger is co-portraited.  Notice the faint peppering of blue feathers on the face.

The south swell from hurricane Marie has reached us--the swell is supposed to build to 8 feet by Friday.  Blood=me chopping my thumb open while cutting bell peppers.  Life is pain.