My plan to take advantage of this holiday was to get out on the lake early. But, the weather continues to be screwy and this morning I awoke to a tempeature of 12C (54F). I decided to wait a bit until it warmed up a some. Even then, it was a cool, overcast morning. In fact, it stayed overcast almost all day, contrary to the forecasts. This was another one of those cases where the TAFs keep getting updated to match the reported conditions.

Even the wildlife seemed to be keeping a low profile under these conditions, but the Geese were keeping watch over their gooselets:

As were the Osprey (well, keeping an eye on their osprats, they wouldn’t care about the gooselets):

This Osprey was soaring way up high under a rare break in the clouds:

From there I made my way all the way up the eastern arm of the lake without much to write home about. Arriving at the northern end of the lake, though, Nature threw me another curve ball. I hadn’t seen Egrets around here until late summer and into early fall, but here was one in late Spring:

I’m always interested in how these large birds get around, in particular how one might do something that looks difficult like landing up in a tree.


Made it! And made it look easy…

Killdeer were hunting around the shallows:

For a while anyway, then time to go!

I didn’t see any turtles on my way up the lake, maybe they figured it was warmer in the water. On the way back though there were a few out.


And, of course, the obligatory Great Blue Heron picture: