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July 11, 2019

From my kayak 6/22-7/11

We have spent several days a week in our kayaks for the past few weeks. We have just seen a few ducks and geese this year, but a wide variety of other wildlife.

Birds

Loon. Upper Baker Pond, NH 6/22/19
Loon family with newborn chicks. Lake Armington, NH 6/22/19
Loon with baby. Grafton Pond 7/2/19
Loon by Ledyard bridge. Connecticut River, Hanover, NH 7/10/19

Sandpiper chick. North Hartland Lake 6/23/19
Belted kingfisher fledgling. North Hartland Lake, VT 7/4/19
Kingbird nestlings. Connecticut River, Lebanon, NH 7/10/19
Bath time. catbird, Connecticut River Wilder, VT 7/11/19
Red-winged Blackbird on a cattail. Ompompanoosuc River 7/5/19
Spotted sandpiper. North Hartland Lake 7/4/19
Bald eagle. North Hartland Lake 6/23/19

Mammals

Beaver. North Hartland Lake 7/4/19
Muskrat. Connecticut River 7/7/19
Deer down by the river. Ompompanoosuc River 7/8/19

Other animals

Painted turtle. Mink Brook, NH 7/7/19
Swallowtail butterflies. Upper Baker Pond, 6/22/19
Pond lily with dragon fly and 2 damsel flies. Squam Lake, NH 7/9/19

People

Jane under the arch. Connecticut River, Norwich, VT 7/1/19
Jane and Rick on Lake Armington, 6/22/19

And a couple of other things not from a kayak.

Sunset after a storm. Hartford, VT 7/6/19

June 11, 2019June 11, 2019

From my kayak 6/7-10

We had 4 days of beautiful weather– bluebird skies, air temperatures around 80º, water temps in the mid to upper 50’s, so we headed for some of our favorite rivers.

We didn’t find any herons and only a few ducks and geese, but there was still a lot to see and hear. The frog sounds were so loud that it drowned out the traffic noise on the Pompy.

Grackle. Mink Brook, NH 6/7/19
Loon stretching – Connecticut River, Lebanon, NH 6/7/19
Luna moth — Connecticut River, Lebanon, NH 6/8/19
Large rodent (woodchuck? muskrat? beaver?) grooming. Mink Brook, Hanover, NH 6/8/19
Frog Ompompanoosuc River, Norwich, VT 6/9/19
Frog singing. Ompompanoosuc River, Norwich, VT 6/9/19
Red-winged blackbird. Ompompanoosuc River, Norwich, VT 6/9/19
Deer –North Hartland Lake, VT 6/10/19
Frog –North Hartland Lake, VT 6/10/19
Mallard with ducklings –North Hartland Lake, VT 6/10/19

October 2, 2018October 2, 2018

9/16-30

We are still kayaking, though more in the afternoons and are still seeing wildlife; some migrant and some resident.

Mallard with breeding plumage. Connecticut River 9/16/18

Common mergansers. Ompompanoosuc River 9/30/18

Hooded merganser taking off. Mink Brook 9/23/18

Common loon with a fish for baby. Grafton Pond 9/29/18

Swimming squirrel. Connecticut River 9/17/18

Deer in the garden. Hartford, VT 9/20/18

Floating leaf. Connecticut River 9/27/18

July 11, 2018

Grafton Pond 7/10/18

Jane and I went to Grafton Pond on Tuesday. The loon chicks have hatched and are being tended by their parents. We saw two families of loons, one with a very young chick,