Animal Interlude — pat morss

A quick break from the Gloucester celebrations between St Peter’s Fiesta and July Fourth.

Painted Turtle on a road trip.
Bunnies are quickly becoming Rabbits.
The Mourning Doves are already on a 2nd nest at the other end of the solar panels.
The Finch family has flown. We promised we won’t remove the nest again this year.
The Red-bellied Woodpecker, serving as sentinel: “Scramble – Redwings incoming.”
Osprey above Niles Pond. Annie or Squam from behind Lobsta Land, off Route 128?
Down at pond level, a Black-crowned Night-Heron is OK drinking brackish water.
Hank Heron is rock-hopping the perimeter, looking for lunch.
Eddy Egret is stretching for hard to reach back feathers – 21 neck vertebrae help.
A White-tailed deer in the driveway, with his new felt-covered antlers.
The boys are returning from fishing on the Audubon rocks.
Apparently testosterone levels are still high.

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