A family of mallards chose to skoot away from us when we came upon them in an inlet on a nearby pond.
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Someone’s looking at me
Ever get the feeling that someone is looking at you? We came upon this barred owl on our local trail. We spotted him ahead of us flying from the ground up to this tree branch. He then sat there until we got too close and he flew off.
Pre-summer sapsucker
A male sapsucker stopped by the other day
Nobody home today
The beaver’s den in the far bog was idle this day; we waited for an hour and all was quiet.
Beaver heading home
Springtime at the plantation bog
At the bog to the east of the Smithfield Plantation conservation land, the bog marsh is slowly getting to springtime. The great drought of 2016 is over; let us make the bog great again ….
Springtime at the Noname
The Spring season has been moving slowly over at the Noname pond.
Eastern phoebe
While wandering along the far bog and waiting for activity near the beaver’s den, we spotted this likely phoebe.
Tail slap!
A beaver sends me a message. It is as loud as it looks.
Beavers in the far bog 2
The beavers would have stayed in their den for most of the winter. They likely have caches of young tree branches, bark, and twigs at the bottom of the bog around the den and under the ice.
The ice cover quickly disappeared over the past two weeks and I expect to see evidence of foraging in the woods surrounding the bog now that it is Spring.
john's f-stop 