Some Canada geese came in and landed on the pond; as common (and annoying!) as they are, I still love watching them fly in and land. This morning, flying west just as the sun was coming up, the white "V"s on their tails were luminescent!
I think I saw some Hooded mergansers; they are fairly common during migration. Then there was something else that flew off as I rounded the bend, but all I know is that they were not our usual ducks (mallards, black ducks, wood ducks).
The pond is beautiful this time of year; there are no water chestnuts left, the scum is gone and the trees reflect in the surface of the pond. It is quite gorgeous. Yes, it was chilly with the thermometer reading only 31, and there's frost on the truck and ice in the birdbath, but somehow paddling warms my soul.
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A very strange thing greeted me as I arrived at the canoes: one of our trash barrels was leaning up against my canoe, having been rolled down the hill from the house. Our coons are quite persistent. Normally they can't get into this trash can and they roll it around up near the house near where it sits, right next to the carport, but they've never taken it down the hill before! Look carefully at this picture you can see that the trash can must have taken a very odd trajectory to get down the hill, around the trees, rolling somewhat in an arc to the west/right, to land between the canoes. The large end was to the right, so it would have rolled with that curve to the right, but still it's pretty strange. We would've wondered where the trash barrel had gone, when it came time to go to the transfer station tomorrow. Life is never dull here.
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(The canoe is wet in the right hand picture, as I had just returned from paddling and repositioned the trash can to take a picture of the trajectory.)
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