My View of Life on the Dock
Hey Joey!
Thought maybe you would like to share this on GMG! Me and my friends went out striper fishing yesterday with my dad (captain Nick with Coastal Fishing Carter’s) and my best friend caught a 53” striper! Weighed over 50lbs! Thought the people of Gloucester would enjoy a picture!
First hatch year Little Blue Heron catching an American Bullfrog
Why is this not so little white heron called a Little Blue Heron? Compared to a Great Blue Heron, it is relatively smaller. As to the entirely white plumage, this is a first hatch year Little Blue in its white phase. In the second spring and summer, the white feathers will gradually be replaced by beautiful slate blue feathers, giving the bird a temporary and unique calico appearance.
Little Blue herons are closely related to Snowy Egrets and the white immature morphs feed alongside the Snowys. You can tell them apart easily not only by bill and feet, but by their feeding habits. Snowy Egrets forage with a great deal of flourish, agitating the water with their feet, and vigorously fluttering, flapping, and flying along the shoreline. Little Blue Herons are stealth hunters, moving with slow deliberation before executing an exacting capture.
North American native Buttonbush attracts a bevy of butterflies and bees with pretty and fragrant flowerheads. Buttonbush grows easily in moist soil as well as average garden soil, in full sun to part shade. In our region it grows to about six to ten feet, and can be kept in check with an occasional pruning in early spring.
Monarch Butterfly drinking nectar from Buttonbush florets (Cephalanthus occidentalis)
The CASC, under the direction of Wendy Betts, will begin rehearsals for its November Holiday Pops concerts on Tuesday September 4 at 7 PM in St. Paul Lutheran Church, 1123 Washington Street, Gloucester. Please bring $25.00 for your membership/music fee to our first rehearsal. Please call Wendy at 978-546-5220 or email her wendybetts@juno.com, if you are a new singer interested in joining our chorus. Concert performances are Ipswich High School on Saturday November 24 at 2 pm, Manchester High School that evening at 7:30 pm, and Sunday November 25 at 2 PM in Manchester. Rehearsals run 7-9 PM everyTuesday evening through November 20. New singers must audition with Wendy August 29-31 at 13 Penzance Rd, Rockport.
Message from David Benjamin: The 4Ever Fab concert at the Antonio Gentile Bandstand scheduled for August 12, has been postponed until Tuesday, August 21, at 7pm. Please help get the word out. This is the only concert that does not have a “next Wednesday evening” rain date.
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The fog was creeping up on the State Fish Pier…and everywhere else….yesterday.
One of the collective nouns for egrets is a “wedge”, so when I saw this I had to share it.
We found them at Parker River Refuge recently and were quite captivated.
If our recording software didn’t mess up you could have heard Randy, Quinny and Wyatt tell us all about it yesterday.
The Cape Ann Community Band, David Benjamin, Director, plays their annual concert on Sunday, August 19, 2018, at 7pm at the Antonio Gentile Bandstand, Stage Fort Park, Hough Avenue, Gloucester MA. The concert theme is “The Music of John Williams and Leroy Anderson; A Salute to the Boston Pops” featuring an exciting concert of John Williams’ movie music and Leroy Anderson’s classic pops pieces. Come hear your friends and neighbors play with this exceptional concert band.
This concert is sponsored by Bank Gloucester, who will provide free ice cream treats to the audience. The concert is free to the public. Parking is free and the venue and rest rooms are wheelchair-accessible. Bring a blanket or chair and perhaps a picnic dinner. The rain date is Wednesday, August 22, 7pm. For further information please visit DavidLBenjamin.com or call 978-281-2286.
Let’s go Brother’s Brew, we gotta step it up!
The weather held the crowds down but those that came had a good time.
GloucesterCast 292 With Heath Ellis Daisy Nell and Captain Stan, Randy O’Neil, Cat Ryan, Kim Smith and Joey Ciaramitaro Taped 8/12/18
JOEY’s iPad software glitched only recorded the first 18 minutes. I am horribly horribly sorry that the last 50 minutes of teh podcast is lost with me having no way to retrieve it. Absolutely brutal.
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Free Tickets To Cape Ann Community Cinema – Share this post on Facebook for a chance to win two free tickets to Cape Ann Community Cinema, The Cinema Listings are always stickied in the GMG Calendar at the top of the blog or you can click here to go directly to the website
2018 Gloucester Schooner Festival- More info http://gloucesterschoonerfestival.net/
Drift Cafe and the Elks
Tickets and Donations online kayellisscholarship.org
Schooner Cruise and Dock Party $60
Dock Party $40
Schooner Lannon office 978-281-6634
Daisy Nell’s New Book- Darryl Eats A Donut
Magnolia 42nd Road Race August 25th Register Here
Clean Harbor Swim
Ginger Beer- Why Is It So Expensive- Twin Lights Bottling or Pigeon Cove Ferments
Coastal Waterbird Conservation Meeting
Straitsmouth Island Work Has Begun
Monsanto Ordered to Pay 289 Million dollars Because Of Roundup
One of our West Gloucester readers, DB, spotted a Giant Swallowtail in her garden! She was too surprised by its appearance to take a photo, and I completely understand why. They are fantastically large in size, as large as a Cecropia Moth. Giant Swallowtails are more of a southern species, but sometimes make it this far north and east, especially during long stretches of hot, humid weather.
Readers, please keep your eyes peeled, and if you can, try to get a snapshot, and please let us know of your sighting. Look for them nectaring in your garden; they especially love native Marsh Milkweed, tropicals such as lantana and bougainvilla, also butterfly bushes, Wild Sweet William, and honeysuckle.
I have only see one once in my garden (in 2012) and it was drinking nectar from the lantana growing in pots on my patio. By the time I ran indoors and back to the garden with camera, it was gone. The photos are from wiki commons media so you can id the butterfly if you see one in your garden. Happy spotting!
The yellow will be paler on an older butterfly as the scales wear off, but look for the arrangement of the spots for an id.
Giant Swallowtail Butterflies, with a wingspan of up to 6.5 inches across, are noticeably larger than Eastern and Canadian Tiger Swallowtails (Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, left, Giant Swallowtail, right).
Join the GHS Fishermen Hockey boosters in a fun filled “Jimmy Buffet” style cruise around the harbor. HawaiiIan shirts and grass skirts encouraged.
The cruise leaves promptly at 7PM from the dock at 24 Harbor Loop – DON’T MISS THE BOAT.
We only have a limited amount of tickets – get yours today!!!
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Join us at North Shore Restorative Yoga this evening for a deeply relaxing experience. Focus on your calming breath with supported yoga poses, guided visualization and attention on your body all by candlelight. You will hear the gentle rain and flickering of candles with essential oil massage and reiki assists. Harmonize, clear and release.
$25 6:30PM-8PM www.nsryoga.com
Good Morning Gloucester 