March 1
"It was in March, in comparative ignorance of their lives and habits, that I started looking for the alewives." - John Hay, The Run. My memory has its own internal clock it seems and each year John's words narrate themselves with perennial warmth. I too start looking for the alewives this month as we all do across the Cape. Their return will be a welcome sight after this difficult winter. The first scouts will arrive down at the Paine's Creek estuary, and subsequently the fish ladder, around mid-March and make their way to Slough Pond about a month later. Let's hope their migration will be easier and more timely supported this spring at our passage.
"It was in March, in comparative ignorance of their lives and habits, that I started looking for the alewives." - John Hay, The Run. My memory has its own internal clock it seems and each year John's words narrate themselves with perennial warmth. I too start looking for the alewives this month as we all do across the Cape. Their return will be a welcome sight after this difficult winter. The first scouts will arrive down at the Paine's Creek estuary, and subsequently the fish ladder, around mid-March and make their way to Slough Pond about a month later. Let's hope their migration will be easier and more timely supported this spring at our passage.
An image of the scouts' arrival graces the March page of the lovely calendar, featuring some of my Brewster photographs, published this year by the estimable Robert Manz Studio.
March 3
