Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
Wallace Stevens
Seagulls flying over the lake, circling and calling.
Video of Seagulls circling over the lake in the early morning of June 9, 2023
Seagulls landing and fighting on the big flat rock where they all want to stand.
So many seagulls, more than I’ve ever seen here.
Why are they here? Why are they circling?
Last week I was certain they were escaping poor air in other places caused by the wildfires in Canada.
Seagulls floating on the water on a calm day, a pinkish haze in the air. I watch them, take pictures and muse.
This morning I walked down to the beach and found that hundreds of dead alewives* washed up overnight. Is this why the seagulls are here in abundance this year? Have they been tracking the alewives all this time? Or is it the wildfires? I’m not sure now. I was convinced when I took the first photos of the gulls that they were escaping bad air in other places, but today I realized there could be more to it.
I’m constantly amazed at what is happening all around me every day, under the surface. The things that birds and other animals know instinctively for their survival, that I can only guess at. Amazed by the world underneath the water, teeming with so much life that I can’t see. It fills me with curiosity and wonder. I hope it does the same for you!
*Thanks to my friend, Kat Needham, for identifying the fish for me. If you want to know more about alewives, click here.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Albert Einstein
Thank you so much for being here! See you next Friday.