In order to participate in the GunBroker Member forums, you must be logged in with your GunBroker.com account. Click the sign-in button at the top right of the forums page to get connected.
Options
I enjoy this time of the year......a few more pics....
William81
Member Posts: 24,595 ✭✭✭✭
The weather is cooling off a might, the farmers are out shelling corn and getting the last cut of hay put up. A few have started in on their beans already. The deer are moving around more in the evening and the fish are biting !!! I can sleep with the windows open not run the air all the time....
Yep, it is a good time of the year....
Comments
Really cool pic of the heron!
Beautiful.
What Joe said.
Tobacco is about over here ,corn picking is going strong. Early season beans should be started in a week or so . Farmers are baling their second cuttings of hay . Saw one Hayfield that yielded 11 big round bales off of about 3 acres .
Donna and I collect painting and prints from Ben Essingburg. We have about 11 total. He is a wildlife artist from Florida. He mostly does herons. About four years ago, Ben got Parkinson's disease and stopped painting. I'm honored we got to buy some of his original works. Hopefully, my son or his wife,
will enjoy them as much as the two of us. sorry for the glare in the first picture.
My favorite time of the year for this
Took a ride in the Trans Am vert yesterday... nice and cool
Beautiful pics William.
We are blessed to have a large Blue Heron that has adopted our spring fed Mountain Pond, behind my house, where the majority of the house is all very large fixed windows going up 3 stories. I love seeing him here. He stays year round. (Even through the Winters, which can get pretty brutal here in the Mountains of extreme NE TN/W NC.)
When seen way up in the sky circling to land, I always exclaim "That is a Big bird." Then I recognize our buddy. Always glad to see him.
Crappie are one of my favorite fish. Don't care to eat them, but they sure are pretty.
Wish I had a Heron that would circle here Ken. Most you'll see circling here are vultures. Wish someone would tell them I'm not that old, yet.
Our Mtn. Pond is LOADED with fish. My back deck on the 2nd story level, runs around the house and is at ground level in front. The ground falls rapidly away out back. My bottom level, (out back) has a Outside only walk in cinderblock basement, pretty much underground except the rear walk in door.
Consequently my large rear deck is perfect for observing the pond. The pond is about 5 levels below my deck, but still rather close. When the light is right in the evening, you can see just how many fish are in it. Spring, summer, fall, it sounds like a swamp at night with all the Bullfrogs and Peepers. Very relaxing. 👍
A couple years ago, it was stocked with (apprx.) 350 ea. of Brown and Rainbow trout. (Pond is spring fed.) Mtn. Pond fully in the woods, not a typical farm pond baking in the sun all day. Also, a creek runs in to it and then out again.
Great resource to have on hand.
*The Great Blue Heron, is a Bonus.