We had a short walk on Sunday at Five Rivers. It felt oppressively hot, but the car temperature sensor informed us it was 74°F - wow is summer ever going to be a shock.
For once, I took very few pictures of family members walking on the trails, but I did attempt a bit of amateur naturalism.
First, some botany:
Pretty flowers and baby trees - not bad.
Then some ornithology:
No prizes for photography, but we can at least identify a spotted sandpiper, some bank swallows and a red-winged blackbird.
Some herpetology:
The two large snapping turtles had a brief but dramatic fight after this and one of them shot off across the lake at an astonishing pace.
Finally, I captured this:
I think I know what it is - do you?
I really want it to be one of these http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogchoker simply because of the comedy name, but suspect it's not. Maybe some sort of freshwater flatfish or ray?
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I think your mystery photo is a muskrat. Didn't know they could fly!
ReplyDeleteThought the picture might be Nessie on holiday?!
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