Today's walk

[reible]

It was good to get back into nature today. Walked for just an hour but it was full of picture opportunities. Since I haven't shared any pictures in a while I today I'll make up for it.

I'll not share all of the 68 taken today but I will share more then I normally do in one of these posts, I hope that is alright with everyone.

Two red heads

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giving grace for the seeds

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the green stream runs through it

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what do we have here?

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across the river high in a tree sat the young eagle

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you are going to have to look for it

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crystals where the stream enters the lake

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sharing a meal 1

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sharing a meal 2

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this the season for wearing green

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Hope you enjoyed a couple of these.

Ed

[JPG]

I enjoyed ALL of them including the beaver.

[rpd]

Hope you enjoyed a couple of these.

Ed

I enjoyed them all. Thanks for posting.

[wrmnfzy]

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This was spotted in our area around Christmas.

[garys]

Your birds look happy.
Up here, Winter set in really hard about a month and half ago. It has been -20 to -30 a lot for 6 weeks and the birds and squirrels are just about non-existent.
Winters like this tend to give really good control on the squirrel population as a lot of them won't live to see Spring. That is a good thing. We have too many of those tree rats.
The birds somewhow seem to survive, probably mostly by leaving and going farther south where they can find food. We have 57" of snow on the ground so bird food is long ago hidden from them.

[Ed in Tampa]

GREAT! Really nice pictures! Thanks!

[joedw00]

Thanks for posting.

[swampgator]

Great pictures and tour. I always enjoy your pictoral tours. And, I did spot Mr. Beaver. It made me wonder how do they get to and from their homes when the stream freezes.

Steve, the old swampgator

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This is a lake beaver. Since he/she has just moved in this winter there was no time to make a house. They dig into the bank and live there. They keep an area of open water near the bank most of if not the whole winter. In this case it would appear they? did not have time to make a feeding area and you can see a lot of debarked wood on the lake ice. This means they have to cut and drag the wood to the area rather then float it. Had they had time they? would have gather food and spent most of the time feeding under the ice.

This small lake is just up from a large river so I expect that is how they? got there. The lake has a small inlet from a another lake so there is mostly a enough flow to have open water there too.

Not sure how long "they"(it's a state park) will let them? stay, for some reason they don't like beavers in these parts and trap them. I'm hoping to get to see these? a few more times before that happens. I'd go back today but it has been an ice storm that has just changed over to a rain event so.......

Ed

Great pictures and tour. I always enjoy your pictoral tours. And, I did spot Mr. Beaver. It made me wonder how do they get to and from their homes when the stream freezes.

Steve, the old swampgator