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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Sunday, January 6, 2013

BLUEBIRDS AND MUSKRATS

The bluebirds returned this morning and were enjoying the mealworms.  YAY!  I hope they stay the rest of the winter!  Today there were two males and two females.  

 Yesterday afternoon, there were five muskrats on a log in a small water opening near shore.  They were eating something, but I couldn't see them well enough to see if it was plant or shellfish type food.  Fun to watch them, though!  There was one (look near the branch in the rear of the first picture) who was in the far pool and kept making a thunking splash, a lot like a beaver's tail thwack, and scared all the others into diving.  

AH!  I can see them sitting on the log again today.  It is hard that my workspace looks out onto the pond and birds...  Difficult to maintain focus on the work sometimes!  :-)  Tough life.

Look carefully, there are 4 in this picture; one is at the top in the far pool.



You can see the rattish tail in the closest one.



What a face!  Cute.

 
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