Pickerelweed?

I enjoy going up the river as the mist is rising in the mornings. The light and the mist makes it very interesting. I believe this plant is called a pickerelweed if I’ve identified it properly. Pickerelweed is part of the water hyacinth family. It has one spike that has small blue flowers on it […]

Our Groundhogs

We’ve had some groundhogs around our place, possibly dwelling beneath our shed. They may have eaten some of my plants, but usually we just see them eating grass or clover. These two were sitting on the step at the shed, and took their time moving off of the step when we came by. They look […]

Mallard

We continue to see the mallards all summer here. They have gotten very habituated and often come up to us when we are sitting at the beach. In all the years we’ve lived by the lake, I have never seen a mallard duck eating a minnow. Usually we see them eating plant material, bugs, seeds, […]

Loon Circle Dance

This looks like it could be a “romantic” moment between the loons, but when I checked about loon behaviour, I found out that these loons are actually rivals, and are doing the circle dance. They slowly circle around each other, checking each other out. I saw them doing this quite a bit. Often one would […]