5 April 2022 (salt marsh)

salt marsh sunset

the cries of a killdeer

hidden by reeds

6 November 2021 (marsh)

burnished saltmarsh

a hidden sandpiper

calls to others

29 March 2021 (cranes)

a salt marsh

where cranes were

spring gusts

6 May 2019 (herons)

counting herons

from the open car windows

spring salt marsh  

August 18: Spruce Head

Lobster shack lunch.

In the saltmarsh sandpipers

feeding at low tide.

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April 22: Earth Day

Scoping the saltmarsh--

four herons also huddled

against rain and cold.

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February 27: Weskeag Marsh

Salt marsh at sunset--

all calm except scudding clouds,

parked car's thumping bass.

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July 3: Dessert

Salt marsh at sunset--

we finish our ice cream cones,

heron flaps slowly past.

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January 25: Heron in the snow

Heron in the snow--

old man bent against the cold

we can only watch

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January 1, 2015: First day, sunset

New Year's Day--

over frozen salt marsh

sunset warms the sky.

 

 

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August 24: Weskeag Marsh

My husband and I visited Weskeag Marsh this morning, a salt marsh in nearby South Thomaston that this time of year can be teeming with migrating shorebirds. Numbers were scant on the rising tide--just a handful of yellowlegs and "peeps" and a gathering of egrets almost out of sight in the back of the marsh--but it was a beautiful morning to stand in the fading weeds at the marsh's edge, soak up some sun, listen to the crickets, and just be.

cicada's long whine
reeds waver in heat shimmer
single yellowlegs