Sunday, April 21, 2013

Pond life


It's still cold, but Spring is doing its best.  Appropriately enough with Earth Day happening this week, many community and conservation groups have organised clean-up days.  The Boy was invited by his buddy's family to help clean up Buckingham Pond in Albany, and the rest of us joined them a little later.




The Pond is an attractive natural space in a residential area.  Most of the cleaning up had already happened by the time we got there, but there was just enough left so that the Man could have a go with the litter-picking grabber thing - so much fun that he's considering a career change.


He and I later made it down to Five Rivers for a squelch around the trails.  The geese are back, and we saw some busy muskrats scootling across a couple of the ponds.  Everywhere the trees are coming into bud - it can only be a few weeks now before everywhere turns green.

1 comment:

  1. Thats a very noble way to spend your leisure time Well done everybody

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