We made it through summer with little on-line activity. This sort of matched our rainfall, in August we recorded 0.45 inches. We got 2 to 3 inches in each of June and July, so it has not been a total dry spell. I think the combination of lots of rain in the Spring, resulting in tremendous foliage growth in the trees and across the forest floor, triggered unusually high water absorption. High demand, low supply equals empty brooks and ponds that look like puddles.
Several weeks ago we spotted this heron on the dried out beaver bog pond. Maine has had a dramatically rain-less summer and we have never seen the bog pond this dry since the beavers dammed the stream many years ago.
From last week in the north of Maine
This past summer had our local ponds (in Maine) filled with greenstuff. While we visit this bog/pond made by the beavers many times a season, it has been unusual to actually see one of the beavers.
Along a Maine brook, a grackle checks for something to eat
A small family of black ducks along a nearby stream in Maine this springtime
To start the summer we found a heron waiting for his picture to be taken (her?) near Annabessacook Lake in central Maine.
john's f-stop 