sightings

• 22 Jan 2023

  🔎 watched six 🦌 play at dusk near the creek, as fluffy ❄️ fell.

  Good end to the weekend.

• 20 Jan 2023

  🔎 I call this “creepwalkin’”

  Sorry for the bad angle, but I didn’t want to lose the shot. #GreatBlueHeron

• 16 Jan 2023

  🔎 I like the interaction of the rain and ice and waves

• 14 Jan 2023

  🔎 turtle log has temporarily become muskrat log

  

• 22 Dec 2022

  🔎 before picture:

  Right now it’s a little foggy and breezy and ice is melting.

  Later, we expect more rain, then ice, then snow, then wind.

  

• 26 Nov 2022

  I couldn’t quite capture the fog rolling off the pond, but this was still a nice moment. 🔎

  

• 25 Nov 2022

  🔎 Hal (our local belted kingfisher) is really making his displeasure known about my spouse’s work cutting back invasive honeysuckle, my nibling’s work walking the dogs, and my grilling.

  His rattling is very loud as he flits to spots around the pond to stop and declare concern.

• 12 Nov 2022

  First snowy day, but these little guys are still having a good time. 🔎🐦

  

• 12 Nov 2022

  🔎❄️ First of the year.

• 08 Sep 2022

  🔎 Merlin Bird ID is so cool.

  Here’s 5 minutes on the patio.

  

• 02 Sep 2022

  🔎🐝 Yummy Jewelweed. (With bonus 🐢)

  Extra cool because I’m told these compete with poison ivy.

  

• 26 Aug 2022

  🔎 Ants may have destroyed my trailcam battery. This was not a plot twist that I had ever imagined.

• 13 Aug 2022

  🔎 Really good reptile day. There are again many turtles sunning on branches. I’ve seen 7 five-lined skinks, including the tiniest I’ve ever seen, the biggest I’ve ever seen (no longer with any blue), and 3 all at about the same time, each with incredibly vivid blue!

• 12 Aug 2022

  Hi

  

• 12 Aug 2022

  New record: I can currently 🔎 see 13 🐢 and 1 🐍.

• 22 Jul 2022

  My spouse and I saw belted kingfishers at the same time today, thousands of miles apart. 🔎

  

• 10 Jul 2022

  🔎 these lil’guys are pretty cool

  

• 09 Jul 2022

  When they notice movement they slide off like a synchronized swimming team. 🔎

  

• 29 Jun 2022

  Glad we decided to call it simply “Heron Haven”, because even though we’ve had tons of Great Blue Heron activity, we’re now seeing the smaller Green Heron quite a bit, too 🔎

• 28 Jun 2022

  Security birb

  

• 26 Jun 2022

  Becoming a 1st level ranger 🎲 and sleuthing around 🔎

  Two little audio stories from today’s adventures.
• 26 Jun 2022

  Mulberries are coming in heavy right now.

  Many more to pick, if you want to.

  

• 25 Jun 2022

  🔍 Took another kayak on the creek. Can’t get too far in either direction with the current water level, but confirmed we have tons of crawdads and mussels. Saw a cool huge turtle shell.

  Also figured out the sneks (common watersnakes) like to hang out on the beech & sycamore roots.

• 25 May 2022

  🔎🛶 Took my first kayak trip on our creek. Went upstream first to make sure I could handle the current.

  Saw an incredible sycamore with a root hollow as wide as I am tall. Saw a little snek swimming away.

  Didn’t die when thunderstorm struck, but it sure was interesting.

• 24 May 2022

  🔎 This is why we call it “Heron Haven”