Warmer

[jhetley]

Temp up near 70F today, light wind, blue sky -- Indian Summer. (First People's Summer? Native American Summer? Indigenous Inhabitant's Summer? I don't really see how a day like this could be considered an ethnic slur.) Whatever you call it, we've had our first frost so this meets the definition.

The leaves are advancing slowly, still less than half color here. I'll be driving 40-50 miles inland tomorrow and can update the Foliage Report then. Around this area, the season depends more on distance from the seashore and on altitude than mileage north.

Heron at the cemetery pond again when I rode past -- this one is a Great Blue Heron, not the egret I saw earlier or the possible Little Blue Heron of a couple of weeks ago. Bicycle ornithology is not an exact science.

15.3 miles, 1:05:30 -- ten miles short of 1400 for the year. Do I start aiming for 1500 miles? The weather could turn crappy any day now.

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[iamjw.livejournal.com]

There is a Great Blue Heron hanging out at my neighbour's pool. Having had a complicated summer they never opened the pool this year so it has become a pond - full of water and smallish swimming things. The heron comes by many afternoons for a light snack of guppies.

I also saw one perched, rather precariously, on a telephone wire.

The leaves here are about 50-50 right now - but it's windy today so a lot have come down. I'm heading north-east on Sunday and expect they'll be fully advanced there.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't be surprised if the heron was hunting frogs. One summer would be shortish for growing fish large enough for a heron to bother. Frogs, though . . . yum!