I'm not usually a bird person at all, but the ducks and loons at Georges Pond last week were particularly endearing. I've always loved listening to the loons call to each other across the pond and every summer that we come to Georges Pond, we always try to figure out how many loons there are that summer. I can't remember a summer when there hasn't been at least one loon on the lake. This week we saw three, but only saw all three of them together once. We were able to get pretty close to them in the kayaks and they even came right in front of our house a couple of times. This guy appeared in front of us as we turned the corner of the island, heading home in the kayaks. They are such beautiful animals!
For the last few years, we've also had ducks on the pond. They were quite friendly last year and we spent lots of time on the beach feeding them bread. This year we decided to see if they would come up on the lawn to the house. We found that they are HUGE fans of Cheerios! Anytime they heard our voices on the porch, they would come running up onto the lawn and look up at us, waiting for Cheerios. Needless to say, we bought lots of boxes of Cheerios over the course of the week!
I often felt like I was living in the book "Make Way For Ducklings". It was great! The ducks were super cute and we loved watching them.
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