It has been a beautiful fall: some rain, some sun and dropping temperatures.
We continued to paddle a few times a week.
We haven’t seen a lot of wildlife: a few ducks, geese, a green heron…
Unfortunately, all good things come to an end. The water is now below 50 and because we don’t have wet/dry suits, we have put the kayaks away for the season.
We’ve been in our kayaks often in the past few weeks and have see a lot.
Great blue herons have appeared in most the the usual spots, but doing some unusual things.
This heron landed near another heron and put on this display.
The heron was fishing from a branch a few feet above the water, dove into the water, missed the fish, struggled back up to the branch and ruffled his feathers to dry off.
We also saw an egret and several green herons, eagles, deer, dragonflies and butterflies, and flowers.
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.