Landscape design work is keeping me away from beloved film projects (although I do love my work no doubts). I did mange this morning to go to Good Harbor Beach to check on the Piping Plovers, to Henry’s to see Mr. Swan, and to the marsh for the ducklings. There were two plovers awakening in the little GHB cordoned off sanctuary, feeding and chasing away intruders. Mr. Swan was chilling at Henry’s, and the three sweet duckling families I have been filming don’t appear to have lost any additional members.
Spending time at Good Harbor Beach filming the plovers before the beach has been cleaned has certainly been an eye opener. Although not even officially summer yet, every morning at daybreak I find the beach littered with an astonishing amount of plastic bottles, trash, food, and plastic bags. According to Rose Piccolo at the DPW, the cleanup crew arrives around 7am and typically has the beaches cleaned by 8:30am. They do a really truly phenomenal job of making our beaches look pristine and attractive before the 9am opening.
A most sincere thank you to Joe Lucido and the Gloucester DPW for a job well done.
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Good Morning Gloucester 
Thanks for the bird photos, especially the slow-mo of the gull
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Very welcome Allen. I think birds wings are amazing and the slo-mo really helps to see the power and rhythm.
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The litter spans way past the actual beach in the Good harbor area of town. All the roads and marshes from the Stop and Shop Plaza to Long Beach Dairy are stuffed full of litter. It would be nice if the City used some of the beach parking proceeds to clean that up too.
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