While Gregg is taking a photo of the tree, I am taking a photo of Gregg.
This tree fell a few years ago. We have slowly watched its roots, caked with mud and dirt that formed a perfect round, slowly disintegrate into what you see above. That was the photo Gregg took. Nature creates extraordinary abstract art.
The weather is finally turning warmer, new shoots are starting to show and flowers, like the Spring Beauty below, are carpeting the ground in great numbers.
A scene shared many times before, near the path just before we get to the boardwalk across the marsh area.
We started to hear a cacophony of noise, and we assumed it was the sound of hundreds of frogs out there somewhere. We didn't see one frog but in the shallow water there were dozens of tadpoles. I mentioned this in my previous post in the video.
They were at a stage much bigger than I remember seeing before.
Gregg took photos of the ducks but we didn't recognize them.
Any help in their ID would be gratefully appreciated. They seem to have long beaks, and one is more muted in color, a female perhaps.
The turtles were out enjoying the sunshine.
I got a pretty good close up of this one.
I think he is actually smiling!
This next one is a Snapping Turtle. There were several swimming around, some much larger than this.
One was swimming towards these three Coots. Gregg said they knew the snapper was there and moved away quickly but didn't fly off.
I am going to end this post here and will share more of our walk next time.
Have a great day everyone, and thank you so much for looking at my post.
