Our neighbour Beagle Ken was telling me about these birds he hadn't seen in about 5 years and they were at his place eating his holly bush berries. So I told him to call when they reappeared. He called and I ran down, but only managed one sequence of one bird - there were about 10 about but most were under cover. The berries are almost gone. I was happy just to get any. This was on Wednesday April 20.
On Friday My brother Paul and I headed for the Valley for a fishing trip on a very warm spring day. On lake one we were fairly unsuccessful fish-wise - but very successful fun-wise. We then switched over to lake number two and before we loaded the boat we checked the local turtle log to see if any were out and about. There were six on the log originally, but they disappeared rather quickly when the alarm goes up. Three reappeared after things settled down. Here's Turtle One and Turtle Two telling Turtle Three to come on up to practice the synchronised sunning routine they were working on ...
The little guy was swimming around the log and finally said "I'm coming on up ... I'm just getting my energy up for the big climb."
OK, so here we go - ahhh made it .. that sure is a long way to pull up a heavy shell like mine...
OK, so synchronized practice over - then what do we do ? How about some balancing practice.
Look guys, no hands or feet !!!
We got the turtles, we got a deer, two pairs of ruffed grouse, some red-tailed hawks, two beavers, and then a mystery bird that must be a lightened up eagle - further research required. Oh, and by the way we did take enough trout home for a great breakfast for three on Saturday morning. Great day on the water with lots of heat and interesting things going on... No bugs, and no sunscreen - forgot that. Summer can't be that close !!! Some of the stories are for another time...
