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Summer rain, summer sun

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Today we have fish on the menu. (© jane naliboff photo/ Chesterville)
Today we have fish on the menu. (© jane naliboff photo/ Chesterville)
Thunder clouds rolled in quickly replacing the sunny sky with heavy rain. (© jane naliboff photo/ Chesterville)
Thunder clouds rolled in quickly replacing the sunny sky with heavy rain. (© jane naliboff photo/Chesterville)
finally the rain moves out and time to go fishing. Early AM on Wilson Lake with MT. Blue as a back drop.(Jim Knox?Wilton)
Finally, the rain moves out and it’s time to go fishing in the early morning on Wilson Lake, with Mt. Blue as a back drop. (Jim Knox/Wilton)
Loon with large webbed foot visible at far back of body. (Tom Oliver/Wilton)
Loon with large webbed foot visible at far back of its body in Hill’s Pond. (Tom Oliver/Wilton)
Continued bursts of rain make the forest lush particularly through this shining silvery spider web. (Jane Knox/Belgrade Lakes)
Continued bursts of rain make the forest lush particularly through this shining silvery spider web. (Jane Knox/Belgrade Lakes)
A female Meadowhawk dragonfly, species unknown. (Tom Oliver/Wilton)
A female Meadowhawk dragonfly, species unknown. (Tom Oliver/Wilton)
The magic of a full moon brings on a sightly cooler weather pattern and makes for beautiful evening walks through the woods, the trail lit up by its brightness. (Jane Knox/Belgrade Lakes)
The magic of a full moon brings on a sightly cooler weather pattern and makes for beautiful evening walks through the woods; the trail lit up by its brightness. (Jane Knox/Belgrade Lakes)
Caterpillar eating beech leaf. (Tom Oliver/Wilton)
Caterpillar eating beech leaf. (Tom Oliver/Wilton)
The chick puts its face in the water to look for food just like its parents. There is no way of telling if it opens its eyes in the water yet, but it soon will be. Having just one nestling rather than two to raise, has increased the rate of learning and the size of this offspring. (© jane naliboff photo/ Chesterville)
The chick puts its face in the water to look for food just like its parents. There is no way of telling if it opens its eyes in the water yet, but eventually will. Having just one nestling rather than two to raise, has increased the rate of learning and the size of this offspring. (© jane naliboff photo/ Chesterville)
An American Goldfinch on thistle. (Tom Oliver/Wilton)
An American Goldfinch on thistle. (Tom Oliver/Wilton)
A butterfly known as The Wood Nymph, I think. (Tom Oliver/Wilton)
A butterfly known as The Wood Nymph, I think. (Tom Oliver/Wilton)
American Goldfinch on goldenrod. (Tom Oliver/Wilton)
American Goldfinch on goldenrod. (Tom Oliver/Wilton)Loon showing green and purple hues on head and neck visible in certain light conditions Loon showing green and purple hues on its head and neck are visible only in certain light conditions. At Hill’s Pond.  (Tom Oliver/Wilton)
a male Meadowhawk dragonfly, species unknown. (Tom Oliver/Wilton)
A male Meadowhawk dragonfly, species unknown. (Tom Oliver/Wilton)
A turkey family crossed the road after the mother went and retrieved them from the other side when our car came along. (© jane naliboff photo/ Chesterville)
A turkey family crossed the road after the mother went and retrieved them from the other side when our car came along. (© jane naliboff photo/ Chesterville)
Doe with her fawn in Wilton. (Tom Oliver/Wilton)
Doe with her fawn in Wilton. (Tom Oliver/Wilton)
Sticking side by side
Happy ending to Belgrade Lakes baby loon saga: The Great Pond Marina family is well and fine. It seems the loon parents had safely hidden their chick away in the nursing area, the father cleverly diverting attention away from it as it grew stronger swimming along with the mother. As the recent photos show, now it can be seen openly frolicking in the open waters of the cove along with its mother to the delight of those kayaking or just sitting out on their docks nearby. (Jane Knox/Hoyt’s Island, Belgrade Lakes)
loon says with its parent
These later photos of the month-old chick near the Great Pond Marina show its robust strength and health, a good sign it will make it. And indeed Joan Witkin, fellow resident of Hoyt’s Island and the official counter for Great Pond, reports that the loan population has held: while slightly down for adults at 44, it is up for chicks at 9, most being hatched since the beginning of July and raised in the streams around the lake. But she too believes that the growing overpopulation of the lake and its waters is the biggest future threat to their survival. (Jane Knox/Hoyt’s Island, Belgrade Lakes)
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  3. Great photos everyone! Jane, is one adult in the top picture giving the fish to the other adult to feed the chick? That’s what it looks like and that’s what we had observed happening before. Is that commopn?

  5. I especially love the composition and colors of the two goldfinch photos! Thank you so much.

  6. For most of us, it’s the little nice things in life we miss. To Jane, Jane and Tom; Ti’s a good job that you do!…

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