Greetings and welcome!
It is a spectacular time of year in Silver Cliff. When I was down by the river over the weekend there were dragonflies, damsel flies, butterflies, birds, and other critters like squirrels and chippies.
On one trip I caught a really cool picture of an osprey. An osprey is a fish hawk or fish eagle that can have a wing span of up to six feet. I guessed this one at 4+. It flew over the river from behind me casting a huge shadow and it very briefly landed on the dead tree. I grabbed the camera and found a window through the trees, got a focus, and click. It all happened in about a second and a half, but I brought it home. Here is a picture, and it is sized to 1,200px wide so it could be a desktop background or print. Cool stuff.
I am still trying to get a handle on what is up with the mosquito population. I had a couple that tried to bite me back in March, and until last Saturday that was it for the year. Even with all of the time that I spend in the woods and by the river, the bite tally is up to seven. I remember writing in March how I hoped all of the breeding stock would wake up in March and get killed when winter returned. Maybe I got my wish. I wished the same thing about the wood ticks, but those we have a healthy population of.
This is about the time of year that the deer start having fawns. I was thinking that aloud last weekend, and sure enough a couple of hours later I heard about the first one. Hopefully I can get more pictures like this one that I got in ’05. (Also a free desktop background..)
There was some wildlife in the river too. The river wasn’t very high, but people were having a blast.
It was also the weekend of the great save. There were two instances where the guy was for all practical purposes in the river, but somehow recovered.
Both of those guys recovered. Amazing. Here are a couple that didn’t..
The weather this week sounds like summer, and there is a hot weekend coming up. Today and tomorrow we will be in the 70s with a minor chance of showers or a pop-up thunderstorm. We had a little rain already today up in Forest and northern Oconto County. Friday/night brings a minor chance of the same type of weather. Thursday and Friday temperatures start trending up into the upper 70s, and we should be in the mid and upper 80s for the weekend. The GFS is showing a chance of a shower or storm for late Saturday into Saturday evening, but the NWS doesn’t have it in their forecast.
Here are the events for the weekend so far..
That is about it from here. If you are driving around keep an eye out for those wobbly legged fawns, it is that time of year. Have a good week and thank you for visiting!
RJB
