Blog: Hideaway Pond 4/13/21 hideawaypond.com
More beautiful early spring weather around the Pond this week. Sapphire blue skies. Lazy white clouds ambling in from the north.
We’ve been favored by one or two pairs of mallards every morning. They generally graze on submerged vegetation at the edge of the pond. They then hitch a ride on the feathered freeway north after fueling up. A pair of geese splash down like clockwork every evening at twilight. They fly in directly over the house and flare out as they hit the water near the porch. Since they don’t radio in before hand, we’ve been unable get any photos. Nor of the two owls who argue in the nearby woods for a couple of hours every evening.
The prize of the day was the arrival of the first bear of the season. I caught a brief view of Smokey passing a window as we were having dinner. Shari ran for the camera and managed to get a couple of shots of him admiring the newly blooming dwarf rhododendron near the front of the house. He was probably attracted by the aroma of seeds that had dropped to the ground beneath the former location of the bird feeders. Apparently not interested in avian leftovers, he ambled on. Nary a wave nor a howdy doo.
