1/2🧵: Bald Dune & One Horse This massive hill of unvegetated sand is a #wanderingdune, slowly migrating across #SableIsland as windblown sand is moved from its north side to the south. It’s more complicated, but that’s the general idea. Most of the time the dune has a huge, smooth top. But with the…

1/4🧵: Bren Gun Carrier and a Snippet of History. 🌎 🐡 #SableIsland #NorthAtlantic #sciart #WWII #history While on the island, Rose Morrison, Sable’s first #ArtisinResidence, explored the sounds of both natural & human artifacts & materials. Here she listens to the tones created as she rapped ….

1/4🧵: Sable Island Harbour Seal. 🌎🌿 #SableIslandnpr #NorthAtlantic #beachsurvey #HarbourSeals Yesterday, the survey was paused for a lone Harbour seal who had been snoozing about 30 m away from the sea's edge. (The water in the background is an area of shallow flooding from the last storm.) …

1/2🧵: Autumn Afternoon. 🌎 #NorthAtlantic #SableIslandwx #NSwx With a NW wind gusting to 23 kts, heavy, broken cloud, & a max temp of 6.2°C, today was the chilliest so far this fall. A family band of four Sable Island horses stand resting in a marram field. Although the lower parts of the leaves …

1/2🧵: Sable Island Rainbow. 🌎 #NorthAtlantic #SableIslandwx #NSwx With a SW wind gusting to 28 kts, a max temp of 9.7°C, towering white clouds & occasional light showers, yesterday was a fine day to begin a survey on south beach. At 9:45 am, during a bright burst of rain, a full #rainbow developed…

1/3🧵: Holding Sand 🌎🌿 🐡 #wildhorses #wildhorsesofSable #sanddunes #windblownsand An autumn scene with four #SableIsland horses grazing in the distance on a high inland dune, providing a sense of scale. Sable Island & the coastal beaches & dune systems of mainland #NovaScotia & #CapeBreton …

1/3🧵: November 11, 2025. We Remember. #ArtistinResidence @rosemorrisonmusic, on #SableIsland, playing “Heavy is My Fate”, a traditional #ScottishAir commonly played in #CapeBreton. We recorded it on Sunday morning before the helicopter arrived & Rose left the island…. #fiddletune #music…

1/3🧵: The Remains of the Pine 🌎 🐡 #sciart #artistinresidence #rosemorrisonmusic Before the helicopter arrived, we went to Pinetree Pond West, a freshwater pond that had been named for the Scots Pine that lived on the slope near the eastern end of the pond. The tree died a few years ago & …

1/4🧵: Boarding the Helicopter. 🌎 🐡 Rose Morrison, Sable’s #artistinresidence, left the island yesterday afternoon. Since the beach was too wet for a fixed-wing landing & the flight had already been delayed by four days, #ParksCanada chartered a Vision Air Services helicopter to transport Parks …

1/3🧵: Field Notes at a Dune Slack 🌎🌿#sciart 🐡 #SableIsland #NorthAtlantic #fieldnotes. Yesterday Rose Morrison, Sable’s #ArtistinResidence, observed & recorded plant species in a dune slack just northeast of the West Light area. The slacks are usually areas of low elevation surrounded …

1/2🧵: This Morning’s Sunrise over Soggy South Beach. #SableIsland #NorthAtlantic #sunrise #SableIslandwx #NSwx #beachflooding Following the strong winds of a few days ago, much of the wide and deep floodwater has been drained off through the channel at the southeastern end of the Sandy Plain….

1/3🧵: Weather Pipe Music #sciart 🐡 #music #parkscanada #SableIsland’s #ArtistinResidence, Rose Morrison, playing her viola as she listens to a melody created by wind blowing through a pipe that once served as a pole supporting equipment at the weather station….

1/3🧵: High Winds Make a River. #storm #SableIslandwx Most of #SableIsland’s south beach was flooded during the November 4th storm. Yesterday a strong northwesterly gusting to 40 kts pushed the floodwater eastward to a point where the water cut through the berm & began draining back into the ocean…

1/5🧵: Ball Caps on the Beach 🌎 The #SableIsland #BrandAudit Survey focusses on any plastic item that has an intact & legible label providing details such as product type, manufacturer & distributor, country of origin, language, etc. … #NorthAtlantic #beachlitter #washedashore #Beachmonitoring

1/4🧵: In the Sable Island Arts Residency Studio #sciart 🐡 With storm winds of >50 kts this morning & continuing 40 kts with bursts of heavy rain & clouds of blowing sand, it has been a day to focus on studio work…. #NorthAtlantic #storm #SableIslandwx #NSwx #artistinresidence @rosemorrisonmusic

1/2🧵: On North Beach Before the Storm. sciart 🐡 #ArtistinResidence Rose Morrison standing on north beach last night. Another storm – high winds & heavy rain - is moving towards #SableIsland. In this photo taken in the dark, some unintentional effects (without modification) suggest …...

½🧵: Flooded South Beach at #Sunrise #SableIslandwx #NSwx The wide south beach, where the fixed-wing aircraft usually lands, was flooded during the last storm when big waves swept over the berm. The flooding (seen here at 6:50 am this morning) can persist for a few days or weeks, or drain off ....

1/4🧵: Sea Foam on the South Beach 🌎🌿🐡 Yesterday, #SableIsland’s #artistinresidence #RoseMorrison was getting the feel of frothing, wind-driven #seafoam as storm waves flooded south beach. Sea foam is created by the churning of seawater, particularly when it contains …. #SableIsland #NorthAtlantic

1/3🧵: At the Swash Zone #sciart 🐡🌎 On Friday, artist-in-residence Rose collected sounds of the sea’s edge washing up over the sand along south beach. It was breezy, southeasterly gusting to 25 kts, but the swash was gentle & predictable…. #SableIsland #NorthAtlantic #artistinresidence #oceansounds

TONIGHT: Art Chat with Rose Morrison & Zoe Lucas, Live from Sable Island Saturday, Nov. 1, 7:00 ADT In-person at #ARTSPLACE or Online: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #SableIsland #artistinresidence #artistinresidenceprogram #Residency #Interdisciplinary #sciart 🐡 #sableislandnpr #parkscanada

1/4🧵: Notes on a Horse #sciart 🐡 Fine weather yesterday. Mostly sunny with a max temp of 15.9°C, & a 15-20 kt northeasterly. #SableIslandwx #NSwx Rose spent an hour on a high dune overlooking a wide area of shrub-heath vegetation with a cranberry patch at the base of the dune, …. #artistinresidence

1/3🧵: One More Bat for #BatWeek 🌎🌿 🦇 Although most #bats sighted on #SableIsland are seen flying & feeding around the Station, some have been found roosting on or inside structures (e.g., in a porch, air vent, Stevenson Screen, etc).This #HoaryBat is clinging (by one leg) to a ledge near a ceiling.

1/3🧵: More for #BatAppreciationWeek, October 24 to 31 🌎🌿 🦇 These two Silver-haired Bats were found on Sable Island on December 29, 2005. They were chilled and clinging to the base of the concrete foundation of a weather station building…. #batweek #SableIsland #silverhairedbat

1/3🧵: Sorting Plastic Items 🌎🐡 This first week of the #ArtsResidency program coincided with one of my scheduled #beachedplastics surveys. About 90 #brandaudit items – labelled containers and packages – were collected from the north and south shorelines, and brought back to the Station for sorting….

1/4🧵: It’s Bat Appreciation Week, October 24 to 31 🌎🌿 🦇 Here is a beautiful Red Bat snoozing in mid-November sunshine near the Sable Island Station in 2005. Although there are no resident bat species on the island, small numbers are sighted feeding &/or roosting… #batweek #bats #redbat

1/3🧵: Today on Bald Dune.🐡 It had been a sunny & warm morning, but as we walked towards Bald Dune this afternoon, dense leaden cloud moved over the landscape & the wind quickly shifted from SW to N. By the time we had reached the top of the huge, barren dune, the wind was gusting to 29 kts,… #NSwx

1/2🧵: Waves in the Dark. 🐡 Yesterday, at 6:30 pm, Rose and I walked out to the north beach, with just enough remaining light to see the waves. It had been a windy and cool day, southwesterly gusting to 36 kts and a max temperature of 13.9°C. Photo Zoe Lucas..... #artistinresidence #SableIsland

1/2🧵: #SableIsland’s first #ArtistinResidence, Rose Morrison, arrived 6 days ago & since then we have done a lot of walking, exploring the landscape, following the horse paths, visiting freshwater ponds, peaking over dunes to watch ducks, & wandering the beach.… #SciArt 🐡 #art #music #atlanticcanada

Looking back, one more pond with horses… Iris Pond 🌎 On September 27, the max temp was 20.4°C, with a 19 kt NW wind. A family band of four (a stallion, two mares & a foal), & two males, were grazing in & around the shallow pond….(1/5🧵).... #SableIslandwx #NSwx #wildhorses #wildhorsesofSable

Looking back again… At One of the West Light Ponds. On September 25, the max temperature was 18.8°C, with a 17 kt southerly wind. A family band of eight was resting at the edge of a freshwater pond just west of West Light. (1/2🧵) … #SableIslandwx #NSwx #wildhorses #wildhorsesofSable

Looking back.. last month... A Sunny Day at No2 Pond West. (1/3🧵) 🌎 #SableIslandwx #NSwx On September 21, the max temperature was 17.5°C, with a northwesterly peaking at 20 kts, but dropping to 12-14 kts during the bright afternoon. A family band of three, a bay stallion and two females, …

This Morning’s Sunrise, 7:40 am. The storm has passed, the wind is dropping, & overhead there’s some blue sky between the big clouds. The temperature is a comfortable 12°C. The water in the foreground is a small freshwater pool just west of the Sable Island Station.... #SableIslandwx (1/2🧵)

October 18, 2025 – Storm at Sable Island. Today a strong northeasterly wind, gusting to 36 kts so far, is driving waves along the north shore. The surf is high and rumbling, with an impressive swash zone rushing over the sand (and filling a pair of rubber boots). ...(1/2🧵)

Nuthatch in May🪶 🌎🌿 Since I wasn’t able to do these posts for a few months, some of the summer & early fall highlights were missed but can be shared now. However, the catching up will be a little random chronologically. A White-breasted Nuthatch snoozing in the sunshine, & pecking at something …🧵

A Warm and Windy October Day. Three horses standing with their backs to the wind were only mildly interested, glancing briefly, as last week’s beach survey was underway, passing on south beach east of the Old East Light area. Although the southwesterly wind was gusting to 21 knots,… (1/2🧵)

More Reflections on Sable Island. Today was mild (max temperature 16.4°C), overcast, and calm. During the afternoon the wind dropped to 3-5 kts, hardly a breath of a breeze to ripple the water. (⅓🧵...) #SableIsland #NorthAtlantic #SableIslandwx #NSwx …

Sable Island Sunset. After several days of windy, cool weather (max temperature about 14.5°C), today was warmer (16.6°C) with a light breeze of mostly 10 kts or less. The evening sky is reflected in Gull Pond, a large but shallow freshwater pond about 3 km east of the #SableIsland Station. (1/2🧵)

Sable Island Station at Sunrise. Good morning! Announcement: Art Chat live from #SableIsland, November 1st. On October 22, weather permitting, Rose Morrison, the SII’s first Sable Island artist in residence will begin her project. During the two-week residency Rose will stay at the Station. (🧵..)

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Choosing a Spot (1/2🧵) Two #SableIsland stallions at a rolling-rubbing site. The dark brown horse has just risen after having a roll, and the bay is sniffing and checking out the patch before getting down for some vigorous rolling and wriggling in the loose sand. … #wildhorses #wildhorsesofSable

Sand Everywhere (1/3🧵) 🌎 #SableIslandwx #NSwx Yesterday was sunny, with a max temp of 20.7°C and a refreshing southwesterly gusting to 21-25 kts. After rolling on a bare patch of ground near a freshwater pond, a #SableIsland stallion is shaking the sand out of his long, thick mane. Photo Zoe Lucas…

Connectivity. Yesterday, #SpaceX’s Starlink, a #satelliteinternet provider, suffered numerous international #outages. The news indicated that an internal software failure knocked tens of thousands of users offline. One of those users was the #SableIslandNationalParkReserve. (1/2🧵) ….

Tree Trunk on the Spit (1/4🧵) 🌎🌿🦑 #SableIsland #NorthAtlantic #treetrunk There are hundreds of visible pieces of #driftwood on West Spit (& many hundreds more buried). While floating in the ocean, driftwood provides habitat, shelter &/or foraging sites for birds, fish & other marine animal species…

Sable Island Sunset. Last night, a view from the top of a high north beach dune. It was cooler yesterday with max temp 19.6°C. The wind was picking up & gusting to 22 kts SE. Photo Zoe Lucas. #SableIsland #NorthAtlantic #sunset #SableIslandwx #NSwx #sableislandnpr #parkscanada

A Ship’s Knee (1/3🧵) 🚢 #SableIsland #shipsknee #NorthAtlantic #GraveyardoftheAtlantic #Maritimehistory A detail of the section of shipwreck shown earlier (see bsky.app/profile/sabl...) This wreckage is on Sable Island’s south beach at the base of a high dune.….

Roses in Bloom (1/4🧵) 🌎🌿 #flora #botany There are 2 #rose species on #SableIsland, & both are flowering now. One is common wild rose (Rosa virginiana), native to eastern North America, & abundant on the island where it provides forage for horses & resources for Sable’s bees & many other insects….

Sable Island Socializing (1/3🧵) 🌎🌿 #SableIslandwx #NSwx Yesterday was a sunny, blue-sky day with a max temp 21.7°C & a SW breeze mostly between 5 - 10 kts. In a valley field towards the west end of the island, two males, a chestnut & a younger bay, are socializing. They are with a group of …

Thinking of Cooler Days on Sable Island (1/2🧵) #NorthAtlantic #SableIslandwx #NSwx #winter The fog cleared off for a while today, but it was mostly humid and warm (second warmest this month), with a few bursts of heavy rain. This photo was taken during January or February in the 1990s (Date not ….

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Sable Island Shipwreck (1/2🧵) 🚢 #NorthAtlantic #GraveyardoftheAtlantic #Shipwreck #archeology #parkscanada Since the early 1990s, parts of wreckage were occasionally visible at the base of a high dune along the south beach. As the dune retreated, more of the timber & iron was exposed, & eventually …