12/29/2013

Today's pond report.  Deer on the driveway.  Hockey on the pond.  And:

12/28/2013

Morning pond report:

12/25/2013

Morning pond report:

12/22/2013

Afternoon pond report:

12/22/2013

Morning pond report - December thaw

12/21/2013

Morning pond report:

12/15/2013

Morning pond report:

12/13 and 12/14/2013

Last night and this morning:

12/8/2013

Morning pond report:

12/7/2013

Morning pond report:

12/1/2013

Morning pond report:

11/30/2013

Morning pond report:

11/23/2013

Morning pond report:

11/10/2013

Today's report- a minor disturbance among the geese in the field:

11/9/2013

Morning pond report:

11/3/2013

Morning pond report.  Geese, mallards, a pair of hooded mergansers (and a pair of wood ducks I didn't catch):

11/2/2013

Today's pond report:

10/27/2013

There is a big old apple tree at the edge of the field.  It was very productive this year.  Yesterday was windy and about three dozen apples fell.  I pressed them into cider.  In the tree while I was collecting the windfall, a northern flicker.  

Today's pond report:

10/26/2013

First frost this week.  Morning pond report:

10/20/2013

Today's pond report:

10/19/2013

Midnight report:

10/18/2013

Hunter's moon:

10/14/2013

Today's pond report:

10/12/2013

Morning pond report:

10/5/2013

Morning pond report:

9/28/2013

Today's pond report:

9/22/2013

Friday night, a pack of coyotes howling very near the house, suddenly went silent.  Saturday, a little flock of pine siskins.  This morning, first day of fall:

9/20/2013

Evening pond report:

9/19/2013

Evening pond report:

9/10/2013

Evening report:

9/7/2013

Today's pond report:

9/6/2013

Evening pond report:

9/2/2013

Morning pond report:

9/1/2013

Afternoon pond report:

8/24/2013

Morning pond report:

8/18/2013

Afternoon pond report:

8/17/2013

Afternoon pond report:

8/11/2013

Morning pond report:

8/10/2013

Morning pond report:

8/4/2013

two big birds:

8/4/2013

Afternoon pond report:

8/3/2013

Afternoon pond report:

7/26/2013

Evening pond report:

7/21/2013

Morning pond report:

7/18/2013

Evening pond report:

7/7/2013

Today's pond report:

7/6/2013

Noon pond report:

6/21/2013

Evening report, summer solstice:

6/16/2013

Evening pond report:

6/15/2013

Morning pond report:

6/9/2013

Noon pond report:

6/9/2013

Morning pond report:

6/8/2013

Morning pond report:

6/3/2013

Evening report.  She is heading back to the pond after a long day laying eggs on the hill.  You can tell by the dirt on the back end of her shell.

6/2/2013

Morning pond report:

6/1/2013

Pond report, high noon:

5/31/2013

Bird box report:

5/31/2013

Evening pond report:

5/27/2013

Afternoon pond report:

5/26/2013

Evening pond report:

5/19/2013

Morning pond report:

5/18/2013

Today's pond report:

5/12/2013

Bird box report:

5/12/2013

Afternoon pond report:

5/12/2013

Today's pond report:

5/11/2013

Afternoon pond report:

5/5/2013

Evening pond report:

5/4/2013

Morning pond report:

4/28/2013

Morning pond report:

4/27/2013

Morning pond report:

4/26/2013

Evening pond report:

4/15/2013

Dawn report.  Woodcock, turkey, red-winged blackbird, wood ducks.  A glorious morning.

4/14/2013

Another evening pond report.  I went out to look for woodcocks.  You can hear them in the last two shots.  But I didn't expect to see a roosting turkey.

4/14/2013

Evening pond report

4/14/2013

Today's pond report:

4/13/2013

Morning pond report.  Wood duck, green-winged teal, phoebe, palm warbler, and lily pads emerging:

4/8/2013

Evening pond report:

4/6/2013

Evening pond report.  Killdeer, mallards, wood ducks, beaver, swans, ring-necked ducks, peepers, twilight:

4/6/2013

Cold and windy morning.  Lots of ring-necks, and a pair of swans:

4/1/2013

Evening pond report:

3/31/2013

Evening pond report:

3/30/2013

Morning pond report:

3/28/2013

This evening's pond report includes the usual suspects (hooded mergansers, ring-necked ducks and wood ducks), the Brancusi of beavers, skunk cabbage, and a fallen giant:

3/26/2013

Evening pond report:

3/24/2013

Spent five hours with birders from all over the northeast this morning.  No bird.  Walking back, caught this, which explains why I am a pond reporter and not a birder:

3/23/2013

Today's report.  The fieldfare is still around, and so are the birders.  The rare bird has moved up the street.  Several sightings this morning.  I arrived fifteen minutes after the last sighting.  So here are some ordinary birds, and some birders:

3/21/2013

Today's pond report.  On Sunday a very rare bird was spotted in my yard.  It's a fieldfare, native to northern Europe.  It's a thrush, and when it visits the U.S. (I think there are only five confirmed visits, including this one) it hangs with the robins.  The fieldfare is not in this report (I may have seen it at my suet feeder, but I am not a birder and I can't be sure).  The birders are, along with several extraordinarily common birds:

3/17/2013 - 2

Evening pond report:

3/17/2013

Morning pond report:

3/16/2013

Today's pond report:

3/15/2013 - 2

Evening pond report:

3/15/2013

Morning pond report:

3/13/2013

Morning pond report:

3/9/2013 - 2

Evening pond report:

3/9/2013

Morning pond report:

3/2/2013

Morning pond report.  The wood ducks are back.  Not much open water on the pond yet, but I flushed some out from the reeds on Page's Brook between the spillway and the Concord River.

2/28/2013

Afternoon pond report:

2/24/2013 -2

Morning update:

2/24/2013

Morning pond report:

2/23/2013

Today's pond report:

2/18/2013

Evening pond report:

2/17/2013

Today's pond report:

2/3/2013 - 2

Evening pond report.  Nuthatches, both kinds:

2/3/2013

As I was coming back from taping the sunrise over the pond, a barred owl flew into a tree in front of me:

2/1/2013

Evening pond report:

1/27/2013 - 2

Wolf moon:

1/27/2013

Mid-pond, mid-day, mid-winter:

1/26/2013

Morning pond report:

1/21/2013

Evening pond report:

1/20/2013

Today's pond report:

1/19/2013

Morning pond report:

1/12/2013

Morning pond report.  January thaw; crows harassing a hawk:

1/6/2013

Evening pond report:

Morning pond report: