Findley Lake 9/25/09

A nice Friday evening on the lake. Several blue herons and lots of crows, ducks and geese. We could hear an owl but no sightings. Only a few fishing people on the lake. A nice sunset and tolerably cool temperatures. In a little earlier than usual (5:00) and out just before the real darkness happened (which is getting much too early).

Findley Lake 9/13&15/09

Nicki had a session with a raccoon who may have been washing blueberries in the water (or were they blue berries?). Found a blue heron that seemed to be standing abnormally far from the shore where they usually hunt for fish. But he was standing on the edge of a submerged tree stump that formed a natural trap for fish - the fish would enter an open side of the stump and the outer edges of the stump would contain them in a pool that was about 3 feet wide - much like a net. Hard to get a picture of the stump - flash may have helped a bit.

Findley Lake 9/6/09

Seems we end up going out later and later each day - the days are busy. And sunset comes earlier and earlier. Tonight the final 15-20 minutes of our paddle was pretty dark - not totally but enough that we did the tie-ups by feel and car lights. On the paddle back to the dock our boats were circled by bats - hard to see them but could catch their reflections in the water. At this rate we'll need to run lights on our boats and start using the flash on our cameras.