Its early , but they're back! A wonderfu sighting in place of the Wood Ducks I didn't find this morning. This is a pond with a lot of potential, I saw two great blue herons here earlier this week. Do you see their pictures? No!!!
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I was fortunate to have seen a red fox earlier this week[ please scroll down fot the posting of it] and didn't think that luck held another sighting for me again so soon:, but yesterday we had stopped by a flooded area along a roadside where we had seen two Wood Ducks swimming, so hoping for a picture of this most beautifulduck species we had stopped and were sitting in our parked vehicle when my husband looked up and saw a fox running along the side of the road towards us. When we started our vehicle it [the fox]suddenly turned and ran up the roadside that it had been running on. The pictures are not too close but this is the best I could get. We followed it up the road
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Dashing for safety and maybe to cache its food., to save it for another day,
My husband had seen that it had something large size, duck- size? in its mouth In the above photo you can see that the fox has something in its mouth but it is not too distinct; it might look more like a shadow to you.
Shortly the fox left the roadside and disappeared over the edge, As we pulled alongside the location where it had disappeared it was just standing there looking at us. It no longer had anything in its mouth. We figured it probably had hidden it somewhere. This wasn't much of an adventure, but we found it rather exciting.
. The essential features of the countryside, sky, water , green grass and trees all combine to create pastoral beauty in this setting.
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Like a Lovely lady wearing a frilly gown
You're just a little tardy for the spring opening party,
While keeping in step like a graceful lilt showing your yellow frill under your white overskirt as the breezes blow:
You bring graceful beauty to my gardens!
I enjoy and celebrate your presence.
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A solitary hunter 
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We have two very old Maple trees standing alongside our driveway
They are aflame with colour this time of year when they produce red flowers. Soon, our driveway will be carpeted with red as the flowers drop to the ground. On Sunday evening I tried to take a picture of a distant sunset while standing on our second story deck,The light from the setting sun was a wonderful backdrop for this picture and it highlighted the 'red'maple flowers.
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Their cheerful noisy bird chatter alerted us to their presence! This is early for Tree Swallows and usually they are around for about a week before we see that thay have entered the bird house. Not so this year. Tthere was one inside the house already this morning.
Fortunately the bird house had been prepared: cleaned and painted last week in anticipation of their arrival!
We think it helps to advertise. This sign was made by our creative daughter Riel Nason several years ago. It has worked every year as we always have occupancy and we have enjoyed these lovely birds around our garden each spring/summer season ever since we put the house up several years ago.
Welcome Back feathered Friends!
I had been hoping that this crocus blossom would be fully open for today:but maybe later. Our temperatures have been quite cool lately without a lot of bright sunshine. But when fully open there will be many beautiful blossoms. However there is more yellow in my garden. We have several Coltsfoot plants still in bloom and this hardy, early wildflower has spread to another garden, which I consider to be a wonderful happening.We also have many Juniper shrubs which are tinged with yellow. 
This is not a negative thing but a choice we made when we bought these Junipers with yellow foliage. they are quite beautiful to see with their golden branches.
And last for my yellow theme for this morning, but definitely not least are these gorgeous golden sun pillars which I photographed last night radiating from a break in the clouds at suns I do dislike wires so much!
I do dislike wires so much!
Its softly filtered but if you look carefully you can see a rainbow in the sky. This is rather special as it is seen through a new bay window we had installed in our dining room earlier this week. If I had of seen it earlier it would have been much better, but oh well, another time view will have to do.
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I have never noticed this view of the end my house before, from inside looking out. Its like a drawing a child would make. No, no smoke from the chimney, that chimney has been purposely blocked of f for years, before we bought the house..
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This magnificent nest sits empty all winter, waiting for their return: Osprey. This afternoon I found this one sitting on the nest! How lovely it is.
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I went out early this morning looking for CommonMergansers and found them in their usual place. And they did their usual thing.They flew away. When downloading these pictures I was very taken with their posture! Look at how straight they hold their bodies while in the air. Beautiful! perfectly designed!
Waiting for the orb to appear, we know its coming by the colouring in the sky.The dawning of a new day!
Ahhh: the enjoyment of a new view, we have been replacing old windows in our house this week and this morning's new view from our dining room included the rising sun, the joy of it all!
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This little mammal,a Chipmunk, is a member of the squirrel family and it has 5 very noticeable stripes on its back., 5 dark ones and two light ones. I felt that the photo above displays this feature well enough for the viewer(you) to count the stripes to verify their number.
Another physical feature of this sweet little creature often seen is its bulging cheeks. See the photo above. The Chipmunk has internal cheek pouches which allows it to carry large amounts of seeds and berries all at once. They sometimes look like they are stuffed!
This little fellow has been very bus yout and about our yard the past few days, scurrying here and there, It seems to favour dashing for our neighbor's woodpile to seek cover when we are outdoors. It is very fast. It just seems to zip, here and there. I suspect it may have spent the winter in the woodpile or else under our garden shed, This little animal is a seasonal favourite of ours. The photo I took while sitting by the window in our sunroom.
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A good place to watch for birds (Osprey, Spotted Sandpipers and Common Mergansers or to have a picnic or just a nice walk
Soon this location at The Falls will be full of activity.
as Gaspereau make their way over the falls and go upriver to spawn. The gulls
and Osprey take full advantage of the tiring, struggling fish
as they attempt to leap the falls
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This morning for my early morning drive I decided to check the river first for ducks. I stopped at an observation deck to look for mergansers and first saw one male. Then two males!
As I was on the opposite side of the river I wanted to get closer to these ducks so I waited at the bend in the river , 
just before the highway bridge crossed the river., so I went back to my car and drove to a parking area further down the river where I knew I would be able to watch the ducks when they swam down river. Finally I saw one male coming down the river
Then, I watched it as it hit the rough water under the highway bridge, then I lost sight of it.
I sat and waited for more mergansers but I saw no more come around the bend!, but where did they go? While waiting for more ducks I kept hearing an Eastern Phoebe singing.so I decided to check it out. there is an inviting walking path that goes under the bridge so I walked along it.
And no, I didn't find the phoebe, but I did find the mergansers! 4 or 5 of them!!!! , in the water under and by the bridge and they immediately took off when they saw me!How had they gotten by without me seeing them?!
There was a female among the males, the female does not have a white body as the male mergansers do! 
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