Winter Lake

I think Saturday morning is the best morning of the week. The weekend stretches out and it seems like there is endless time to loaf, get the errands done, have fun....

This morning we went off in search of owls at Colonel Sam Smith Park as a preliminary bit of fun before going to Ikea. We never did get to Ikea. Once again, the furniture situation takes a back seat to enjoying ourselves. One day, I will have a nicely furnished house, but that's another story.

The morning was beautiful. We searched the spruce trees for signs of owls. We found whitewash (aka poop) and a few owl pellets (regurgitated balls of the undigestsble fur and bones of their prey) but no actual owls. Still it was exciting to track the creatures and see the tracks of other animals - squirrels, mice and I think a weasel!

We also saw 2 red-tailed hawks hunting, a rare Northern Shrike and thousands of different kinds of ducks on the lake.

I took gazillions of pictures with very little success today, not to mention the snow that got on the lens doesn't enhance the clarity of the photo!

Comments tomorrow, it's late and tomorrow is a special day - my son's 18th birthday!!!!!! I will be cooking, cooking and more cooking!