What have YOU seen?

Hey, all of you Stearns Mill Pond denizens and users, what have YOU seen on the pond or brook? Contribute your info - what great sightings, what birds, what animals, what sad things, what changes (good and bad), what wonderful moments have there been? Let's share what we know and love about our pond.
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Wednesday, September 18, 2013

DAWN PADDLE

Chilly, misty morning on the pond - 39º according to two of the weather apps (I forget to look at our thermometers...).  I also forgot to take my binoculars, so couldn't see what the ducks were, but I know the wood ducks are starting to gather.  Morning sightings include a great blue heron, a muskrat, a kingfisher and an unknown hawk.  Perhaps a red-shouldered?  It was a buteo, not an accipiter, but looked too small, with too short a tale for a red-tail, but I'm not really good at identifying the red-shouldered.  In any case, it was gorgeous flying through the blue sky!

 There is a bird's nest, larger than a robin, but not huge like a hawk, built on some branches of a tree leaning over the water.  

Location of nest on branch over water



closeup

I'm thinking maybe one of the grackles that I frequently saw down by the water, or I suppose a red-winged blackbird or even a blue jay?  I don't know enough about nests. Cool to look at, though!
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