April 8/Nature Notes

First Week of April

It's not warm yet but it's definittely looking a lot more like spring here.

Largest square: this belted kingfisher has returned to it;s summer fishing grounds, Beaverton on Lake Simcoe.

Moving clockwise:
1. starlings on bare limbs
2. a cattail  with fluff  blowing in the wind
3. an osprey has come back to its fishing ground on the Trent-Severn Canal, Kirkfield
4. dried grasses on the edge of Reesor Pond, Markham
5. bubbles umber melting ice, Kirkfield


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Spring Melt/Our World

Cool, clear water

Last weekend on the south side of Georgian Bay, much of the snow and ice had melted and the water was clear and gorgeous.

 

 Georgian Bay (Lake Huron)

Don't you just LOVE the colours of the water?

Another close up

More photos from Our World can be seen by clicking HERE.