Being a workaholic with important deadlines, I made it a work day while Donna made it a celebration by bringing a great pot roast and apple pie and spending the day. Together, we deviated from my deadline work to watch what the first beaver of the year would do. Watching and snapping this picture from over a tenth of a mile away, we saw it go to the same place the mallards gathered a couple days ago, dive down, find vegetation, and go to a shoreline mound to eat it. He then repeated this activity a couple times until we saw the pattern. Once, as he was busy on his mound, a pair of mallards passed by undisturbed.
We watched the eagle fly by a couple times but with other goals in mind and refusing to do his or her swoop and grab.
Woodchuck
The woodchuck appeared and showed his familiarity with the this place and its people by letting me zig zag close for a look and a click. His main interest was the green grass blades that are beginning to poke up.
Fisher
The day started with a visit from the new fisher who was carrying off ham fat and paying no attention to me in the window. Eventually, he or she acknowledged my presence and let me click this picture.
Total Eclipse
Amazing to me was this picture of the eclipse taken in Vermont by a photographer who is a friend of a friend. I don’t know his name or how he could have done any better in capturing the aura of the event. I can only say thank you to my friend for sending it.
Thank you for all you do,
Lynn Rogers, Biologist, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center