Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Lake, lower down

 What a difference a few metres make! I stopped at Echo Lake on my way to Snakehead Lake. It was snowing, slowly, at Echo Lake; the snow on the ground was less than an inch deep. At Snakehead a few minutes later, the untouched snow covered my shoes.

Snakehead Lake is at 283 metres above sea level. Echo Lake, a mere 6 km. away as the crow flies, is just above the 200 metre line.

On my way home, three quarters of an hour later, it was raining at Echo Lake; the snow on the ground had melted.

The east end of Echo Lake.

West end, with a distant pair of waterfowl. And some snow on the shrubs.

Zooming in from water's edge. The birds are buffleheads.

And these, at Snakehead Lake, I think are scaups. I could be wrong.

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¡Que diferencia hacen unos cuantos metros! En camino al lago Snakehead, me detuve en el lago Echo. Estaba nevando un poco en este lago pero había apenas un centímetro de nieve en el suelo. En el lago Snakehead, en cambio, unos minutos más tarde, la nieve, donde nadie la había pisoteado, me cubría los zapatos.

El lago Snakehead está a 283 m. de elevación; el Echo, a una distancia (a vuelo de pájaro) de unos 6 km., apenas pasa la linea de 200 metros.

Camino a casa, tres cuartos de hora más tarde, estaba lloviendo en el lago Echo; la nieve ya se estaba derritiendo.

Fotos:
  1. El extremo oriente del lago Echo.
  2. El otro extremo del mismo, con una pareja de pájaros acuáticos.
  3. Desde el borde del agua, se ve que la pareja son porrones coronados,Bucephala albeola.
  4. Estos, en el lago Snakehead, creo que son los patos buceadores Aythya sp


2 comments:

  1. Still not really ahving a "wet season" up here. And today's punishing winds played merry hell with cuttings ans and small plants... but we'll get there. I hope!
    Hope you have a lovely Christmas.

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    1. Christmas! We're almost there; where did the time go? I hope your Christmas is happy, too.

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