Kick up the dust

From House sparrow to Pheasant, birds of a feather maintain their plumage.
*Public bath, east end, Fishers Island.

– from The Field by Justine Kibbe December 12, 2018.

On days like this, East Harbor is perhaps fairest of them all.
Hungry Point’s rock “clumps” are typically the Harbor seals
favorite haul-out.
*so still you can just barely hear the bell bouy….

From the Field, Video Snippet, Justine Kibbe, December 11, 2018

Happy to see last weeks lone
Black-bellied plover now has a traveling companion…

*foraging within Sanctuary of Sands, southwestern tip, Fishers Island

From the Field, Video Snippet, Justine Kibbe, December 10, 2018

Just back from checking for any whale spout activity off Isabella; It’s calm enough.
I did see 6-8 brilliant bluebirds flit around me as I rode the path thru the Pickett Landfill-magical!
You can believe your eyes…

From the Field, Video Snippet, Justine Kibbe, December 7, 2018

Canada Geese Flotilla within Hay Harbor. “Oh Henry Ferguson Museum!” Gratitude for stewarding unique Big Stony habitat-all year round*.

*Loving our “Native land”….

From the Field, Video Snippet, Justine Kibbe, December 6, 2018



Member of the Parade Ground “gang”
Between their warming up on the Elizabeth Field runway and eyeing freight off load the Munnatawket;
South beach tidal pools are their forage mainstay.

From the Field, Video Snippet, Justine Kibbe, December 6, 2018

Yesterday’s rip currents flood by.
With cold temps causing refraction; neighboring islands and Plum Gut appear “right there”

* atop bunker, Race point.

From the Field, Video Snippet, Justine Kibbe, December 5, 2018