The wind, water and warmth from the sun create an ice sculpture on the lake side of Ashbridge's today.
Frozen! I thought these bluish icicles were particularly lovely in the warming rays of the late afternoon sun today. There were only a few bushes that had these ice sculptures on them. It seems there had to be the exact combination of sun, wind and warmth to get the formation of these long icicles.
The inner bay is still frozen over, and no sign yet of our swans. I keep wondering where they are along the lakefront — and when they’ll be back.
Towards the end of the point there were lots of common goldeneyes, looking very regal with their glossy green heads and sharply delineated markings.
There were also lots of female common mergansers keeping a slight distance from the goldeneyes. Didn’t see any males around, but guess they had to be somewhere about.
On the far side — the lake side again — I saw this one lone gull on the water. It seemed to be much bigger than the usual ring-billed gulls I normally see on my walks. A quick look in my bird books has me thinking this is a herring gull — common enough around here, but not seen nearly as often as the ringbilled ones.
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