What we saw this week: night hawks,
great blue herons,
green heron,
cormorants,
ducks,
sandpipers,
loons,
beaver,
chipmunks,
and some songbirds.
What we saw this week: night hawks,
great blue herons,
green heron,
cormorants,
ducks,
sandpipers,
loons,
beaver,
chipmunks,
and some songbirds.
We spent a couple of evenings this week on the Connecticut River between Wilder and Hanover and have finally seen the duckings we hadn’t seen when we paddled earlier in the day.
We saw ducklings of varying ages, some families are new born, others are several weeks old.
The geese flew by.
This mallard male had a funny expression.
One of our favorite places to walk is Hurricane Hill in Hartford. This fall, we were notified that the dam on Wright Reservoir was unsafe and that they would have to drain it.
When we walked there yesterday, the water was already down about 3 feet and you could see where they had repaired the spillway.
It was a cold, foggy day.
The weather prediction was for sunny in the 50’s, but the fog did not lift until 2:30 and the temperature didn’t hit 40. It was cold enough that ice stuck on branches didn’t melt.
But the mallards didn’t appear to mind.
A foggy morning on the Ompompanoosuc River this morning.
We saw at least 2 great blue herons,
ducks,
tree full of flickers,
and some flowers.
My neighbor, Alice, and I paddled on the Connecticut this morning.
We saw some wildlife: some mallards,
some mergansers, a spotted sandpiper
and a large family of mallard ducklings