It's official. The BMD are on the water
Saturday, April 22, 2017
Loons are Back!
April 22. The loons are back. Spring peepers in full song. Two of my most favourite sounds I took this video tonight, about 10.30 p.m. There is nothing to see, just loons and frogs to listen to. The best orchestra ever.
Moose are on the Loose
OntarioTourist
Moose Watching season has started this week in Algonquin Park. The ponds and marshes have unfrozen near HWY60. The moose are getting salt to replenish their bodies after the winter. #muskoka #discoverON #moosewatching www.cottage-resort.com
April 20, David gets famous (more famous???)
Look who made the Barrie news!!!! David's pic of our under-water docks.#bondivillageresort #ctvbarrie #muskokafloods
Ragged and Rugged, Ragged Falls in full Flood
one of our smallest parks, but with a waterfall that packs the biggest punch! Ragged Falls in spring flood. You should go see it. Only about a ten minute distance from Bondi Village!
This video is really worth the watch.
One day after Ice out, April 19
With the ice going out yesterday, thoughts naturally start to turn to summer fun! Might want to wait a touch longer however before going for that first waterski! #Muskoka #LakeOfBays #travel #summervacation#BondiCottageResort
Tamarack glory
Spring brings so much new life to the forest. This is a tamarack -- the only evergreen to shed its needles in the autumn, after blazing into golden glory late in the fall. Come spring, the new buds open into soft green, with the flowers briefly glorious, while the old cones still cling to the branches. This wonderful photo, showing all three phases at once, was taken by Rob and Jean Hilscher, from Oxtongue Lake. Thanks for the share.
April 17, Barrels on the Dock
The ice is close to being totally gone. Some still jingling in the corners of the bay and lots out by the island but it is done. Leaving softly. Water levels are up, but it is ice that does the damage
April 16, watching and listening to the ice on the move
It is very faint, but you can hear the ice 'chiming' in the background, as it pushes into itself, breaks apart, piles onto itself, or the rocks, or the dock... Birds overhead. Mist... reflection. I am so lucky to be able to walk along this shoreline every day.
Listening to the ice chiming as it leaves the bay
You can hear the ice, a low whispering, like faint wind chimes, as it crumples and collides
Ice is a driving force
Ice damage. The dock at Clover cottage has been shoved on shore. The BMD will be working on this!
Easter Sunday, Pemberley reports in
April 15th. Pemberley's Diary...
I continue my quest to lure in the deer... although I have been told that even if I do succeed in catching one, I won't be able to get it in through the cat flap...
(editorial comment: he is getting closer every day to the deer. And has also taken to 'duck tolling' along the shore. Although that exercise ended in a very wet cat.
Eagles above us, April 15
Yesterday the bald eagle spent some time with us, soaring in huge circles above the resort, a bit too high to get a good picture. He/she was joined by five turkey vultures, with wing feathers extended, gliding by. And on the Lookout, the turkeys are starting to call. Swallows are back, frogs are singing in the pond, juncos are swarming the feeders, deer are on the lawns. What a wonderful time of the year.
April 14th... Going, going, almost gone
Ice is getting darker. Almost gone. A heavy rain could end it. Or a few more days like today's
Springing Water
With the spring melt reaching its peak, there are new and unique water features to discover around every corner! There's never a boring time of year here! #explorersedge #muskoka #spring #getoutdoors #travel #explore
April 12 brought Mergansers
Every day here, Nature brings us great gifts. Yesterday, these mergansers appeared along the shore. The 'boys', in full mating plumage, are hard to photograph (they 'cheat the meter' on the camera with their dazzling white, and are very very shy of cameras) Fabulous birds to have back with us, and to watch all through the summer as the moms come by with their big broods to fish along our shorelines. Welcome back!! #springbirdmigrationontario#explorersedge #mergansers #bondivillage #algonquinpark #ontariotravel
Wet Hens
I've been slack in updating the Blog the past two weeks. Sorry about that. I've been posting on our Facebook Page, because it's easier to upload the videos direct from the phone. Ah, technology...
The Ice is officially gone, April 18... but on the tenth, as it rained into the snowpack and the lake level rose, I got this video of the hens running for cover.
The rain and fog really knocked the base out of the remaining ice and snow. And the deer came to visit... This is at Clover cottage.
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