Day 246

Sept. 3, 2021

Blue eyed boy

I drove a lot today, but it was a beautiful day.  I was at heron pond before 10 this morning and the color of the water was luscious.  Just gorgeous in the woods, too.

The sun shines down through the trees onto different spots that light up, they are on stage for the moment. 

There was a turkey with a grey white head and this female heron was in a horse field.  

I drove back through Bernardston and the bottom of Leyden and the Community Farm was so pretty.  It looked like a storm was going let lose, but it didn't.   

Grabbed some lunch at the Coop and then drove to the rookery where there were at least 50 birds flying around the whole time I was there.  They were not swallows or swifts.  I don't know what they were and they were silent, there was no vocalizing. Apparently the bobolink are migrating and that at this time of year the male looses his distinctive coloring.  Maybe?

Lots of livestock out.  I saw several horses today and of course the cattle babies are getting bigger.

The canal was really busy tonight. There were a lot of geese and ducks and the egret and one heron.

This heron is definitely male.  Look at his neck/chest feathers.  And his tongue is so long, it looks like his beak has three sections. 

Edite and I ate some food in the garden and grandkids came to say hi.

Very sweet ending to a long but good day.