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Puffer's in Fog - morning 11/23/12
(if this photo included sound, you would also hear
loud trumpeting of geese emanating from the fog) |
Anyone who follows our "On Puffer's Pond" sidebar has read about the ever increasing duck population congregating near South Beach over the past few weeks. By Friday, we guess that more than 100 ducks had formed a tight community on the water by the bridge, and even in the thick fog that morning they could be identified by their sound - a noisy chorus of quacking and wings flapping. A small gaggle of about eight geese had even joined the lake population by Friday, and around mid-day they seemed to have staked out the center of the lake, with the ducks remaining closer to shore. And then a cold front blew in yesterday morning, and by mid-day, there wasn't a duck or goose in sight. Our Thanksgiving house guests took flight yesterday, too. It's quieter, of course (in both places), but we miss the spectacle.
Beautiful, beautiful picture. Very evocative.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone know -- really know -- what happens to wild ducks in the winter? Or turtles? Kayaking on the Ipswich River I used to see rows of little turtles basking in the sun on logs, but always wondered what happened to them when summer was over. How little we know about the lives of our co-critters on the planet.
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