The latest beaver dam has now re-created the pond that existed about twenty-five years ago when the beavers first flooded the area now known as the beaver bog. You can see the new pond at the top of this image. The water that has leaked through the dam, seen in the lower part of the image, makes the image you see in the previous post.
On the outlet stream from the Beaver bog, these common mergansers look for food and perhaps a place to nest during the rest of Springtime.
The outlet stream from the Beaver bog is a typical Spring season hang out for all sorts of ducks. Here a group of mallards check out this year’s version.
On a visit to the so-called Beaver bog, created by a team of beavers over twenty years ago, we found a beaver near their latest dam. Their work has flooded the bog and made it a useful resource for all kinds of ducks and other creatures.
Last fall a large tree fell into Woodbury Pond. The ice during the winter encased it and created this unusual image, caught during a warm late winter day as fog hovered over the pond.
We have reached eleven months of Coronia and two-thirds of another Maine winter. We are expecting the slow return of Spring, Summer, and the Fall. We hope to start seeing more birds and fewer tracks in the snow to mark the end of Winter.
We found a very interesting group of tracks of all sizes the other day on our hike.
As our weather meanders deeper into winter, our time in the woods gets shorter and shorter. It doesn’t go above freezing anymore. More and more forest life leaves only their tracks and most of them are mysteries.
We have had little chance so far this winter in getting some good bird pictures. But a little light snow and some time in the back woods did provide us with some “almost” bird images!
