My View of Life on the Dock
Dear Friends,
Please join me April 6th at 7pm, at the Sawyer Free Library where I will be giving my Pollinator Garden talk and screening several short films. The event is free and open to the public. I am looking forward to presenting this program at our wonderful Sawyer Free and hope to see you there!!
Thank you to Diana Cummings at the Sawyer Free Library for making the lovely poster!
Echinacea and Bee
Pearl Crescent Butterflies, female left, male right
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Butterfly expert Doug Savich is sure to inform on this exploration of Halibut Point State Park. Doug wrote the chapter on “Waring Field and Cranberry Marsh” for the Massachusetts Butterfly Club Guide to Good Butterfly Sites.
The Massachusetts Butterfly Guide to Good Butterfly Sites is an indispensable guide for butterfly hunting around Massachusetts.
Pearl Crescent Nectaring at Milkweed Waring Field Rockport
Summersweet
There is an exuberant abundance of wildflowers blooming in marsh and meadow all along the shores of Cape Ann and here are just a few snapshots. When out and about on a wooded walk, you may notice a wonderful sweet spicy fragrance. What you are smelling is more than likely our native summersweet (Clethra alnifolia), which also goes by the common name sweet pepperbush; perhaps a more apt description of its potent and zippy honey-spice scent.
Plant summersweet for pollinators–bees, hummingbirds, and butterflies love the nectar-rich florets.
Jewelweed (Impatiens capensis), also loved by hummingbirds
Catinninetails
Male Northern Crescent Butterfly Basking
Female Pearl Crescent Nectaring at Milkweed
Good Morning Gloucester 