Paddle Day.

8-10-14 VERMONT: We finally got the canoe out of the barn and paddled around the confluence of the Ompompanoosuc River and the Connecticut River. There are mud flats covered with just inches of water with lots of reeds, water lilies, pickerelweed and lots of birds. We saw a Great Blue Heron, juvenile, hunting in the shallows, Mallards, Canada geese and some unID’d raptors.

We met Dave and Gail for dinner that evening at the Tuckerbox in WRJ. That was our second good meal there, and it’s on our list of UV restaurants. We talked about lots of old friends.

New blooms: sedum, first aster, black-eyed susan, goldenrod, Indian pipe, blue lobelia.


Where the Ompompanosic meets the
Connecticut.

Lady Mallards.

Great Blue Heron, juvenile.

Takes the plunge.

Flies off....

to another spot.