Gone fishin'......

 June 9, 2024

This week started off with a fishing day on the beautiful Bonnechere River. It was a shake-down cruise for a leaky aluminum boat that Hubby had obtained from a friend. After a lot of work, no leaks!!

We accessed below Round Lake and fished our way down to where the river flows into Golden Lake. The Bonnechere is a 'pool and drop' river which means it has sections of narrower, somewhat weedy shallow spots that have a slight current, then large, lake-like openings, some of which are up to 40ft. deep. The river flows softly along beside farmer's fields where we heard Bobolinks and Eastern Meadowlarks singing. The feisty Kingbirds made their presence known, perching in trees along the shore and swooping down on unsuspecting bugs. 

We caught a number of small Northern Pike which we returned to the river. One heftier one, and a big Perch came home with us.

We've had over an inch of rain this week, most of which fell on Wednesday. It was quite warm at the beginning of the week, but now the temperature has dropped to cooler digits. Over the last few days, the sun has been warring with clouds, and there have been lots of intermittent spotty showers. Today the mercury has struggled to get up to 18C. (64F)

We picked up the SD cards from the trail cameras this morning, and surprise, surprise....This fellow came right by one like he wanted his picture taken. See the growing antlers on his head?

 

On the "Bird" cam... a Rose-breasted Grosbeak..

 

A Veery...

 

An Eastern Phoebe...perhaps one of the pair who are busy building a nest under the eaves on the front verandah..

 

Do you think this robin has caught on to me?? I think we are getting the 'stink eye'.

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The year we moved here, I brought a pot of chives I'd dug up from my previous garden. It sat out on these patio slabs for quite a while before I made a place to plant it out. We were busy getting settled and making gardens. It bloomed and went to seed....all over, filling all the cracks. Now there are chives everywhere, and this one odd clump which is white...

The first red poppy opened yesterday morning, big buds are swelling on the peony, and if you look closely, there are buds rising in the day lily clumps. We've eaten the very first fat strawberry, carefully halved, as the rest are quite green yet. Haskaps are starting to blue up, but are still very tart. The first row of beets was thinned today. All the transplants are settling in and starting to put out new growth.