Plumbird

Waves

This could be a nice little place to live. I looked in there for a while this morning, imagined having a woody-smelling roof and walls, with a wide open front view of the ocean. I stared for a long time at a white lump out in the marsh, thinking it might be a snowy owl.…

I’ve been using Merlin, an app Cornell University developed with the Land Trust Alliance to make identifying and posting sitings of birds easy.

Walking on the refuge road this morning around 7Am I saw a snowy owl at distance out in the marsh. A tiny white marker, its movements invisible from that distance, buts its distinctive shape unmistakable. No cars lined up at the side of the road. No super duper scopes aimed out at it. A Northern…