I caught this wood duck on the beaver pond in the back woods earlier this year. I get excited whenever I manage to get close to one – they are not common or likely to stay near when you do get close.
Wood duck on a cruise
maine woods
A winter in discontent
We have managed to make it through the strange winter of 2022-2023 so far. The range of temperatures have been wide and varied, but not too different then last year or so. As such, it still gets to be disconcerting for a day reaching 56F and then a couple days later it is 13F at noon. The more surprising attribute has been the lack of snowfall. That is, not a big difference in the amount of precipitation but in the basic liquidity, as it were. The amount of rain and almost-snow has been most noteworthy. In the middle of February, we seem to be in the middle of what Mainers call, “Mud Season.”
An autumn shadow
Greenery on mud pond
On mud pond in the Woodbury bird sanctuary last week, the lily pad congregation enjoyed an early fall day.
Fall comes to the beaver bog
As we walked the trail around the beaver bog (now a good sized pond due to the beaver’s comprehensive damming operations), we noted the beginning of this year’s color change and leaf dropping. While the pond has been a bit lower most of the summer, it is now full and there is little evidence of drought.
A summer day at the pond
Loon again
Another look at the lone loon on Woodbury Pond the other day (see previous post). Typically they are seen well out in the middle of the pond whenever we visit. When they do venture closer to shore, typically I have no camera or just a phone. This is the best I can do with the pretty good iPhone Pro Max, hand held.
Loon on Woodbury pond
We journeyed over to the pond this afternoon and was lucky to have a visitor drifting around with no apparent purpose. I suspect this loon wanted to make me mad by presenting a great potential image at the same time catching me with only my iPhone.
Tall stump
Four winged flying thing
john's f-stop 