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Winter Spring Pond Diary

May 23, 2017 Family, Nature, Trapping

Tue May 23 Nice Last night … there were 5 new water lilies just breaching the surface with 1-2 pads.  Here’s a couple of those … No signs of decimation in the existing lilies.  Looking good.  Two different views … Saw a minnow.  And – always seeing activity under the lily pads. That’s either the minnows or blue gills.  Pretty sure it’s the minnows though.  But the surface is so occluded with stuff from the surrounding trees and shrubs that visibilityRead More

A beautiful spring day – fresh snowfall, geese on the pond

April 9, 2016 Nature

Our two new residents today.  As seen in mag view.  (tap 4 fullsize) The actual view from our deck. And cats.  Yup.  Cats too.  That’s Boris in the foreground, and graycat (a new feral resident here at SRW) at the other end of the deck.  A daily drama. Yesterday, everything was green, growing like mad.  So different today.  Very exciting.