Marsh Gulls

Three gulls, three very different personalities.

https://islandinthenet.com/marsh-gulls/

Three views across the tidal marsh, toward the Chesapeake Bay [USA], from the back of the Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center visitor's center. I've heightened the contrast some, but these remarkable colors are realistic: the view was simple and breathtaking. On Kent Island, Maryland [USA] 20170120
#maryland #chesapeakebay #tidalmarsh #chesapeakebayenvironmentalcenter #reflections #IGMem
In a breakthrough for ecosystem mapping, researchers at The University of Cambridge and global environment nonprofit The Nature Conservancy (TNC) have published the first globally consistent map of Earth’s tidal marshes. #oceans #tidalmarsh #Maps #freshwater
https://www.nature.org/en-us/newsroom/tidal-marshes-on-the-map/
The World’s Tidal Marshes Are Finally on the Map

The Nature Conservancy and the University of Cambridge publish the first-ever fully-comprehensive map of Earth’s tidal marshes – calling for more effective conservation and restoration of the crucial ecosystems.

The Nature Conservancy

The Wash is an incredibly diverse and chaotic ecosystem. Impose order and uniformity with a tidal barrage, and it will surely collapse and die.

#TheWash #Norfolk #Lincolnshire #tidalmarsh #TidalBarrage

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/19/tidal-barrier-proposal-for-lincolnshire-and-norfolk-sets-off-wave-of-opposition?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Tidal barrier proposal for Lincolnshire and Norfolk sets off wave of opposition

Wildlife and environment groups condemn plan promising renewable energy for 600,000 homes

The Guardian

#Golf #TidalMarsh #Shallotte #NorthCarolina

On this par 3, my brother just missed a hole-in-one with his golf ball stopping 1/4 inch from the hole.

I hit my shot 10 feet from the flag. He didn't mark his ball, hoping I would knock it in with my putt.

Instead, my ball ricocheted off his and went into the cup for a birdie 2.

I graciously conceded his putt.