Day 19.210: At the beach (part 2)

Some more birds from Wednesday evening’s nature group visit to South Point beach.

Piping plover

Semipalmated plover

Sanderling possibly (we definitely saw one)

Piping plover chick

So cute!

Ruddy turnstone

Ruddy turnstone

Ruddy turnstone

Great black-backed gull

Rung-billed gull

American herring gull

Day 19.209: At the beach (part 1)

The middle of our nature group outing on Wednesday evening was at South Point beach. We didn’t get very far having arrived on the sand as there was so much to see from right there.

The teen just right of center with the dark bill is a Forster’s tern. The rest are common terns

Common eider

Black-crowned night heron flyby

Black-crowned night heron

Part of a large crèche of common eider chicks

In the foreground are two young common terns either side of a roseate tern

Common tern

Common tern

Common tern

Common tern

Day 19.208: Hadestown: The Musical

In the end, three of us traveled to South Portland to see the proshot of Hadestown. We weren’t sure we were in the right place as this looked very much like a shutdown movie theater.

This was coming out - we were less-confident on the way in

The signs saying it was open were very much needed.

This version was filmed in the West End theatre where E5N1 saw it last year with the original principal cast. E5N1 missed it today to help his friend out with a camp. None of us who saw it today had seen the musical before although Exile #3 knew the soundtrack and therefore the story very well. It was excellent in every way. 

The inside of the building was rather more convincing that the outside with some fun vintage movie posters. 

We wondered what sign had been roughly obscured here. The wrong answers we came up with were more fun than what we decided it probably really said. 

All in all, a 10/10 experience. 

Day 19.207: At Great Pond

Our nature group gathered this evening in Biddeford Pool. We started and ended with a view of Great Pond. Here is some of what we saw there (in the dying light):

There are two black-crowned night herons in this photo

Glossy ibis (later we saw 40 of them in this pond)

Choke cherry

Great egret

Great egret

Double-crested cormorant

Glossy ibis

Snowy egret and great blue heron

Snowy egrets

Eastern kingbird

Sunset clouds

Day 19.206: Garden update

Exile #2 has been busy. Here are some updates:

Also, salad leaves, berries, flowers, zucchini, …

Day 19.205: Boat trip miscellany