Now you're back at Greenbelt Lake again, in the first week of November, before the fall foliage peaks. This time of year it's covered in Canadian geese, as you can see below.





The sweet gums have been magnificent this year in a whole range of colors; you can see some bright salmon leaves here:



In addition to the Canadian geese we have mallard ducks all year:



There were a ton of fluffy little ducklings born this summer, and the survival rate was pretty good this year by the looks of it. We also have a couple of white ducks and geese, a pair of pretty wood ducks, an egret or two, and one great blue heron with its slow prehistoric walk through the shallows. Around the time of these pics, I also spotted a big crested kingfisher. I didn't spot any hummingbirds this year, but we do get them.

I promise the next part to be a little less fowl. *runs*

From: [identity profile] rosamundeb.livejournal.com


*throws things at you for that terrible pun*

I love kingfishers. Looks like you had much better fall colors than we did. I like the sweetgum pic!

From: [identity profile] lavendertook.livejournal.com


*really deserves things thrown at me for that poorly worked in pun*

I don't think I;ve seen the big crested one before. We lacked sun, but that probably helped the colors last longer--we had just barely enough rain to keep them going--they're really forgiving of how the rainfall was neglected here over the year. Did ya'll have too much rain?

Thank you--I have a sugar maple pic that has more colors in it, but the leaves are not so sharply defined as in the sweet gum, so I don't think it works as well as a pic.

From: [identity profile] rosamundeb.livejournal.com


We had a good amount of rain, but it was only "too much" for about a week, when some of the rivers flooded a bit. A very green year, ironically.
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