Hi fellow Hiveians,
Today we have a few pictures of the critters that were having fun in the open water of the lake.
Fodder
There were a few animals around the shoreline of the lake, staying to the area that wasn't frozen. I was surprised to see the Canadian Geese around since they typically are in Florida or the Carolina's about now hanging out for the winter. They know how to live it seems!
The geese here, although you can't see it, seem to have been having issues though. I felt bad but two of them were hobbling around on one leg. When they put their other foot down they were limping so I don't know if they got hurt or if that's just what they wanted to do. Didn't seem natural to me. There was a decent amount of broken glass on the sand though because people are pretty ridiculous so hopefully they didn't get hurt because of that!
The geese and ducks seemed to have been loving the vegetation that was still growing at the shoreline. They were feasting on it the whole time we were there and left quite a few landmines on the sand we were dodging.
The highlight though was this little guy below! We were walking along the beach and something smashed through the shallow ice making all kinds of noise and scared the hell out of us. I looked quickly and thought I saw it was a turtle or something because I saw some little feet swimming away. A few yards away this little head pops up out of the water and looks at us! It was a pretty cool muskrat or otter. I think it was a muskrat because we have some near us at home so it made sense that they would probably be up here as well. I was lucky to snap this picture before he took off down the lake! He was enjoying himself for a moment in this spot trying to figure out what the heck these loud tall things were walking around.
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It's nice to have some water around...Kind of adds some interest I guess right? Is this near your place?
Thanks man, yeah this is the lake house we spent son much time at this summer! It's hard to believe lol. They drain the water down super low, it's kind of frustrating but not much we can do. An added benefit is we've cleaned up the sand in front of the house quite a bit so that's great! I think before they pump it back up with water we are going to comb it.
Why do they drain it? Is it a winter thing?
Yeah it's a weird winter thing lol. They drain it to fill a larger reservoir for some reason. A lot of the big ponds actually do this around, I'm not completely sure the reasoning behind it.
I'm not sure if that lake is man made or not but isn't it typical of humans to want to manipulate things? I think that's a lot of the reason why things are going wrong a lot of the time; Our meddling.
Yeah, I think it actually is man-made now that you say it. A lot of the lakes and reservoirs unless they are glacial lakes, were created. They flooded towns to do it lol kind of crazy. One of the neighbors that have lived there a long time told us this summer they did that to create the lake.
The huge reservoir that feeds the city of Boston, the Quaban, was a man-made reservoir that they kicked people off the lands to create the reservoir and flooded huge swaths of land and houses. Wild stuff!
Yeah, it's kind of crazy, but sort of what humans do, how would we survive and prosper without more more more after all.