We encounter a pair of loons almost every time we wander down to the pond edge this year. If this is the usual suspect, it is a mother loon and her kid is hanging around nearby. They typically stay 20 yards or more from the shore.
Loon on patrol
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Black duck congregation
Not another osprey view
Birds around the pond
During last months visit to the Ice Pond, we had a variety of birds to photograph, as you have seen already. Here is an interesting shot where the cormorant took off from its perch on the mid-pond rock (see earlier post). The bird cruised past the blue heron standing on the dock and a great egret standing on a branch above.
Blue heron takes a bow
A great blue heron stands on this dock on the east side of the ice pond for hours. Late one afternoon while I waited for him to do something, anything!, he turned to his left and took a bow. He then slowly walked off stage.
A yellow-crowned night heron by the sea
Along the coast near the Mystic river.
Baby heron in the marsh
Osprey checking out the pond
While sitting beside the ice pond, a pair of ospreys flew search patterns overhead. At one point, this one began adjusting from horizontal flight to vertical.
Egret fly by
Cormorant rock
A double crested cormorant has been spending many hours standing on this rock in this fresh water pond only yards from Fishers Island Sound
