Tag: Kettle Island
Beautiful Magnolia Pier late day
The sunset was not long on Thursday but the sky, Magnolia Pier and the tanker way out there made it look so nice. So blessed.
Sun peeking through the clouds on Saturday morning
Magnolia Landing with Kettle Island, the pier and a tanker going by.
Silver harbor
Waves on Tuesday
Considering that Hurricane Teddy was over 350 miles away, the waves were very impressive.
Glad the Magnolia Pier is 2 feet higher.
Spindrifts near Kettle Island
Early Friday morning
So peaceful on a late summer morning.
Boston in the foreground
On Sunday morning the sun was shinning and Shore Road again did not disappoint.
Looking out from the back side of Kettle Island
Such a beautiful summer this has been, on Sunday we kayaked out to Kettle Island. Such a pretty sight.
Kettle Island from Shore Road
I never tire of this view,
Kayaking around Magnolia Harbor on Sunday
What an amazing day on Sunday to kayak around Kettle Island and Magnolia Harbor.
Another beauty of a day at the beach
A sunny Monday
Kettle Island off of Shore Road, the ocean looked like it had diamonds floating on top.
Grateful to take a walk on Shore Road
During these times, feel like the ocean is giving us a show to help us all.
Magnolia Point on Friday afternoon
We all need to get outside for some Vitamin D of course with social distancing.
Interesting clouds over Kettle Island
Went for a walk to Ocean Lawn on Sunday. It was so beautiful outside and of course the Ocean Lawn is amazing. For more information on Coolidge Reservation please follow the link below:
http://www.thetrustees.org/places-to-visit/northeast/coolidge-reservation.html
Kayaking around Magnolia
Went kayaking on Thursday afternoon and went out to Kettle Island. Such a beautiful day with clouds and sun.
Going out for a dive near Kettle Island
Fog around Kettle Island
Easter Sunday early morning, the fog was awesome especially around Kettle Island.
Wonderful Essex County islands IBA #ornithology talk by Chris Leahy | Straightsmouth keeper’s house gets love from Thacher Island Assoc & looks like a scene from Edward Hopper!
Esteemed conservationist and bird and insect authority, Chris Leahy discussed recent multi-year surveys of Essex County islands for Mass Audubon and Mass Fish & Wildlife with humor and depth as only he can having resided on the North Shore, in Gloucester, and championed this Important Bird Area for some 50 years.
The islands range in size and offer different kinds of nesting habitat. There are great shoals for fishing. Islands include familiar names like Tinkers, Straitsmouth, Thacher, Children’s, Kettle, House, Eagle, Ram, Cormorant and Ten Pound. Leahy recalled visiting some in the 1960s-70s for the first ever field counts with Dorothy “Dottie” Addams Brown, Sarah Fraser Robbins & others, and readily compares data then and now.
Some of the bird species making the count: gulls, egrets, herons, cormorants, harlequin duck, geese, loon, coots, purple arctic sandpiper, common eiders, and snowy owls. There are not a lot of songbirds due to restricted habitat although so many song sparrows he quips, “it almost feels like they’re going to attack.” Predators do and did. Gulls and rats stuck in my mind, and our ruinous plume hat trade. At that time “Snowy egrets– in FLA and elsewhere south– were slaughtered for plumage developed solely at breeding time, leaving any young to die and rot.”
Climate is partly a factor and population dispersement in the birds they find. Sometimes there are great “fallout” of migratories which are unpredicatable and awesome. Various species are easier to count especially those perched amid low tree shrubs. Guess which ones? Forgot the burrowers! Forecasts are exciting. He predicts we might see Manx shearwters maybe nesting here in the coming years.
Kindness of organizations and people with boats helps make this happen. And one steel hulled sailboat that makes access to these rocky isles a bit more possible.
Chris Leahy presented Treasure Islands for Gloucester Lyceum & Sawyer Free Public Library. Mary Weissblum has endeavored to host evenings for Leahy’s numerous publications and projects, so many that she’s lost count. “Always a treat to be educated and charmed by his incredible store of knowledge,” she writes. Look for Chris Leahy’s next talk.
Learn more about Thacher Island Association (Paul St Germain) here
Learn more about Birdlife International here
photos below ©Linda Bosselman Sawyer Free Library- thanks for sharing Linda!
Kettle Island, Magnolia Pier from Shore Road
During the recent rainy days, when the rain stops some beautiful views.