Somes Meynell Wildlife Sanctuary
The Somes-Meynell Wildlife Sanctuary is dedicated to conservation, research, and education in the Somes Pond-Long Pond watershed and beyond
Unfurling leaves of a striped maple and just emerged yellow birch leaves from a tiny sapling, both near Bubble Pond last evening.
This evening's foggy recon of Bubble Pond. Usually a resting place for one and occasionally two loons at a time, but not a good nesting pond with its 99% steep, rocky shoreline. I found one unbanded adult loon that I thought may have been playing tricks on me, following me down to the very foggy southeast end and back. I thought at 1st there may have been two, but I don't think so. No nesting sites observed, but a lot of great light and color seen.
Here is another sequence of crazy preening by the Somes Pond male, shot in super zoom, rapid fire, then cropped to bring in a little closer (i.e. not great quality, better for the feel of the action). Best to go through them rapidly like the old style photo flip booklets. The was part of the 4th crazy preening bout out of 5 this past Sunday for the SP male within the full preening session that lasted about 20 minutes. Fun to watch!
