Just wandering about …
The Heron is back. It’s been raining a lot here, so I hadn’t been around the watering holes. The goslings are from another location but they’re growing.


After nearly a week of rain today was sunny and bright. The geese were grazing all is right in the world.
So it is April’s Fool Day but Easter took over and Spring is slowly coming. The birds are coming back and there are blooms.


Well every once in a while we get a spring snow. I do observe that are spring snows are very pretty. It doesn’t last long.

So we hadn’t had a snowy winter but it has occasional been a wet one. Today it was raining and it was cold enough to slightly free the rain drops and form what I call the diamond tree.
The migrant geese have left. The Heron tarries, will soon depart. The mallards remain. The crows come and so to the gulls. The mergansers begin to show and the last fruit ripens. Winter is coming.

So I was the Pond… it’s a nice pond. Lots of birds for a little pond. And so the question is … can two herons be at the same pond? The answer is after a little chasing … is yes if one is in a tree. The Heron in the pond grab a snack the other in the tree was still waiting. Yep. I gotta carry the bigger camera 
It was a beautiful fall day at the Pond not to hot and sunny. Here you see the cormorants with a turtle.


And the Heron who is not fond of competitors at the same location.
So I went to mass late. And stopped by the pond. I liken this pond to motel 6; not fancy but comfortable. Anyway it was near sunset and wouldn’t you know I got bit by mosquitoes! Two in the face (near the edge of the temple and a cheek) and my left wrist. Amazing! But the birds were coming in to settle in.




The small birds and the large were seeking a bit of repose.