Back on my first blog of the season I wrote about the lone merganser perched on a rock in Tupper Lake, seeming to be looking for her brood. Well, here’s a happier female common merganser, above, leading three chicks across the waves. Three seems like a small brood. Look at this brood for the duck mom below:
This loon mom is keeping a close watch on her chicks including feeding them:
She’s very happy after delivering that snack:
Not all of the hungry critters are on the water, this red squirrel made short work of an acorn:
And this deer looked up from munching leaves along the roadside but didn’t seem at all fazed by the long lens: