Cape Cod Art and Nature

I was at South Cape Beach in Mashpee yesterday when I saw these swans. There must have been 60-70 of them just hanging out on the edge of th...

If you have been in an area where swans are common you may have noticed that one of the swans seems to be missing. Where once there were two...

One of our earliest signs of spring here on the Cape is the all out return of the blackbirds, both the red-winged blackbirds and the grackle...

When I was a kid one of my favorite things to do on a long afternoon was play with my father's moose, duck and turkey calls. Hunters use...

Listening to a bluebird sing in a field on a sunny day.... Photos taken at the Game Farm in East Sandwich where you can almost always find a...

Sorry I haven't posted this week but I've been sick and was unable to post. I have tons of new pictures to share, though, so be sur...

If you live on Cape Cod you probably know that sighting an adult bald eagle is not very common, even in winter when we do get a few eagle si...

Mallards are so common that we often take them for granted so it's always nice to take a kid along to remind you to really appreciate th...

One of the first shorebirds I could identify for sure as a kid was a ruddy turnstone. They have very distinctive markings, are not very shy ...

I love sanderlings and sandpipers. They accompany me on many a beach walk, especially in the fall and winter.... For many folks all the litt...

If you walk along the Cape Cod Canal or along the Sandwich beaches you will find huge rafts of common eider ducks. These northern ducks gath...

These photos were taken a few days ago when it was sunny but very cold. We are waiting for snow to fall here on Cape Cod so I thought I'...

Earlier this week a reader of my Weekly Nature Watch column (Enterprise newspapers) called to tell me they had a screech owl sitting on a br...

are easy to recognize with their gray and rather mottled appearance and there are quite a few of them on our beaches and in parking lots rig...