Nancy's Corner – Page 47

August 17, 2014

Another trip to North Hartland Lake

The herons cooperated today on our paddle on North Hartland Lake.

Great blue heron

Great blue heron

Young great blue heron

Spotted sandpiper

Unfortunately, the weather didn’t and produced some showers.

One way of dealing with a rain shower.

August 10, 2014

North Hartland Lake

Young turtle sunning itself on a lily pad

Turtle on log

Cormorants

Egret

Egret

Great blue heron fishing

Connecticut River and Mink Brook

This morning we did our usual paddle up the Connecticut from Kilowatt Park to Mink Brook and back. It never fails in showing us some wildlife.

Great blue heron and duck on Mink Brook

Kingfisher

An immature heron on Mink Brook

Immature heron taking off from tree.

Immature heron flying

Wood duck

Water lilies

North Hartland Lake

We paddled on the North Hartland Lake this morning and saw a variety of wildlife.

Cormorants

Cormorant

This has been the weekend for great blue heron, seeing them both on the Connecticut yesterday and in North Hartland today.

Great blue heron standing under the Joe Pye weed.

Great blue heron taking off.

Great blue heron flying

We also saw some ducks that we couldn’t identify. Perhaps they are gadwalls.

Ducks of some sort

Ducks flying

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Great blue herons and deer

We watched a great blue heron on the Connecticut this morning. Great blue heron-5724

Great blue heron

Fishing

Great blue heron fluffing his feathers after a quick dip. — Great blue heron fluffing his feathers after a quick dip. I’m not sure if he fell or jumped in while fishing .

Reflections

We also saw a couple of deer and some ducks.

A doe and an buck.

A deer watching some ducks.