Sunny and ice...

On Saturday afternoon it was 78 degrees on Coles Pond but as I stared out from the deck chair I did not see blue water but white ice....

Yesterday the ice finally went out and open water appeared everywhere... and no time passed before the loons appeared... apparently they were close by patiently waiting when they got a call from the Mallards that the ice was gone.

The same thing happened last year, the day the ice went out the loons appeared on the pond.

I saw a grouse and two beavers this morning on the drive into work.