The Trees Have Their Blooms
It’s starting to look like spring around here. Slowly that is. After our lovely day on Saturday when we went to the Rochester Public Market, it’s been doing nothing but raining ever since. But that’s what spring is all about isn’t it?
Of course, they are calling for rain on and off all this week too. Oh well. You know how the saying goes….April showers bring May flowers.
Canada Geese Getting Bold And Walking Around On Our Back Deck
Our pond is looking clear and healthy. The Koi have come to the surface to sun themselves. We also noticed that we have some wood ducks wandering around this year.
They’re so pretty with their giant pink flowers.
Canada Goose Enjoying The Pond
So we went out and bought a wood duck nesting house. They have already checked it out. So cross your fingers they’ll like the home we put up for them. I’ll let you know if we end up with little baby wood ducks wandering around.
The Hosta are starting to sprout. It’s amazing how big these get.
BK didn’t know what to do when the Canada Geese came up on our back deck, presumably looking for food. He kept a watchful eye on them.
The buds are starting to open on the Magnolia trees in our front yard.
Buds On The Magnolia Trees Coming Out
David Adding The Bedding To The Wood Duck Nesting Box
The Hosta Are Popping Up
David With The Wood Duck Nesting Box We Put Up At Our Pond
And we have a couple of Pileated Woodpeckers that hang around all summer long that are a force of nature. They are huge birds. They get as large as a large sized crow. I was able to grab our big zoom lens on our nice camera and shot these pictures before this one flew off. It’s amazing the destruction one wood pecker can do to a tree. We watched as this one flicked off bark like it was paper and he just pecked and pecked in search of ants. He seemed to have hit a nice lunching area because he did not leave this spot on the tree for a while.
Pileated Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Whisper Enjoying The Sun, When It Pops Out From The Clouds That Is.
Of course I had to include a picture of at least one of the kitties. Whisper is loving the sun, when it decides to pop out from behind the clouds that is.
Those Canandian geese are quite mean and nasty! We got a lot them here in NJ, too, but luckily not in my backyard.
Is your pond natural or man-made﹖ How deep is it?
Hello CeiPui.
The pond is man made. All of our neighbors (all 4 of them) have man made ponds too. They were created to help with water flow and drainage in the area. Plus the dirt that was excavated was used to build up the houses in the area.
Our particular pond is about 10 – 14 feet deep. It has to be at least 10 feet deep for the fish to survive the winter when the surface freezes over. We have not had any problems with fish loss, so it must be working.
We have a few sets of Canada Geese that make their homes here in the summertime. Right now they are sitting on their nests, waiting for their eggs to hatch. So in a few weeks we will have little baby gosslings running around here. The geese that were on our deck are not nesting this year. So they just wander around looking for food. Which we oblige them and put out cracked corn. We also get deer, turkey, rabbits and many many birds in our yard. We are registered as a wildlife sanctuary on the National Wildlife Federations registry.