Thursday, July 02, 2009
Eagle, hummingbirds, and otter
The hummingbirds continue to flock around the feeder, but they're too small to photograph with the camera I have. You'll have to take my word for it.
The otter who swam around the dock last night at sunset was also too small, but it was good to see. It seemed to be interested in eating the weeds growing in the water out there.
The eagle just wouldn't stay put long enough to photograph. I saw one sitting in the hay field next to the Little Blake Lane entrance. Was it feasting on a little rodent?
I did a lot of work yesterday. Moved some of the concrete from dead Red Tom. Cleaned up half the patio. Weeded the front garden and counted at least 22 Tiger Lily plants (a population that has grown from half a dozen plants rescued from the roadside a few years ago.) Removed the pine needles and seeds (nearly soil) from the roof and dumped it out back. My legs, hips, and back were stiff by dinner time.
Sunset wasn't much to see, but I did get this impressionistic design in the cloudy twilight.
This morning I did get out on the lake. Wasn't much of a sunrise either.
I took a tour of the lake and noted that there are a lot of boats and pontoons that are not in the water this summer. Is that a sign of the economic times?
Still cloudy and cool at Little Blake and here in Luck. Maybe sun this afternoon, but that's what the weather prognosticators said yesterday.
Sunrise on July 2
The otter who swam around the dock last night at sunset was also too small, but it was good to see. It seemed to be interested in eating the weeds growing in the water out there.
The eagle just wouldn't stay put long enough to photograph. I saw one sitting in the hay field next to the Little Blake Lane entrance. Was it feasting on a little rodent?
I did a lot of work yesterday. Moved some of the concrete from dead Red Tom. Cleaned up half the patio. Weeded the front garden and counted at least 22 Tiger Lily plants (a population that has grown from half a dozen plants rescued from the roadside a few years ago.) Removed the pine needles and seeds (nearly soil) from the roof and dumped it out back. My legs, hips, and back were stiff by dinner time.
Sunset wasn't much to see, but I did get this impressionistic design in the cloudy twilight.This morning I did get out on the lake. Wasn't much of a sunrise either.
I took a tour of the lake and noted that there are a lot of boats and pontoons that are not in the water this summer. Is that a sign of the economic times?
Still cloudy and cool at Little Blake and here in Luck. Maybe sun this afternoon, but that's what the weather prognosticators said yesterday.
Sunrise on July 2
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We've got some otters on our side of the lake too. They don't eat weeds thought, they're carnivores. We also have some beavers on the south end to the lake. We see them cruising the shoreline in the evening.
Otters carnivores, eh. I guess I never gave much thought to what they eat. Perhaps the otter I saw was harvesting snails from the lake weeds.
Oh, no more beavers? They're likely to concentrate their efforts on the link between the lakes. If the water level in Little Blake begins to rise, we'll know what's happening. And Georgetown Twp will get out the beaver traps (like they did a couple years ago where the creek from Big Round comes under the road.
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Oh, no more beavers? They're likely to concentrate their efforts on the link between the lakes. If the water level in Little Blake begins to rise, we'll know what's happening. And Georgetown Twp will get out the beaver traps (like they did a couple years ago where the creek from Big Round comes under the road.
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