A week of schizophrenic weather on Hideaway Pond. Placid blue skies were occasionally interrupted by heavy dark clouds that brought with them windless rain. It dimpled the surface of the pond as they slowly passed. Brief gusty rains sometimes blasted the pond‘s surface, turning it steel gray, black cats paws racing across its face.
During Nature’s calmer moods, grass carp skimmed the surface of the pond. They left behind small zigzag wakes in their quest for floating vegetation. Turtles slept, quietly sunning themselves on the warm grassy banks of the pond. Oblivious of the role they were playing in the surrounding pageant.
Thus, the background to one of the busiest weeks in our small summer soaked green cocoon. Notwithstanding, in this report, an absence of bears, who range widely and can show up any time. Or not.
A doe and her twin fawns seem to have adopted us. They’ve been regular visitors, arriving shortly before sunset each evening. They often dine on pond side greenery near the ledge. They will sometimes cross to the side of the pond near the porch. They then wade as they graze, often approaching to within a few feet of the porch.
Two young testosterone laden bucks deign to show their antlered excellence about once a week. In a few months their interests will be elsewhere, rutting season then being in full flower. So to speak. Suffice to say, the cervidaen set will be otherwise occupied.
A high point of the week was the reappearance of the ever elusive bobcat. This time we moved fast enough to take a photo. Albeit one of its hasty retreat.
Today Mother Nature was in one of her most restless and angry moods of the season. We began the morning wrapped in dark cloud. Not unusual at this sea level.
Things went downhill from there, becoming darker, more cloudy and windy. Nature occasionally teased us with a few brief peeks at the sun. Then she brought down her full fury. Rain battered the windows until it ran down in large rivulets, killing the outside view. Wind whipped even the largest trees like weeds. The pond became totally obscured by rain and spume. All of this lit by lighting strikes before Mother Nature finally regained her composure. Sheesh.
Somehow, in the midst of all of this, a large blue heron flew in during a break in the weather. No doubt flying on instruments. Had it radioed in, we would have turned on the runway lights. Unabashed, it calmly fished at the back of the pond, eventually settling on a spot near the porch before lofting off into a finally clearing sky.
A wan wet sun has finally peeked through the clouds and slowly evolved into a quiet pink and gray sunset. Our local owls have begun their endless query. “Who cooks for yooo. Who cooks for yooo?“ A placid Catskill nightfall is lit by a bright half moon. Peace.
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