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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Friday, November 15, 2013

BREAKING ICE, PILEATED, COOPERS & SCREECH

COOL!  I've always wanted to play icebreaker with my canoe!  Today was the perfect day; temps in the low 60s, but still ice on the pond from last night and Wednesday when the temperature never got out of the low 30s!  The ice was just crunchy enough to make a lot of icy noise, but I could paddle into it.  Blake thought it was somewhat unsettling! Poor pup.



 The Pileated woodpecker is around!  Michael said they've seen it several times, Linda & I saw and heard it the other evening in the tree where the screech owl lived last spring, and I saw it again the next morning in a tree in our front yard.  

A Coopers hawk is frequenting our bird feeder - I think it was probably a Coopers that I saw last week when I didn't get a real good look at it and thought it might have been a Sharp-shinned.  

And we have a screech owl who serenades us in our pre-dawn time on our porch.  Great birds around the pond.

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