Saturday, May 1, 2021

Budding Time Along Local Rivers

 

Got out on the water a couple of times this past week...Tuesday on the Sudbury River and Friday on the Assabet River (photo above). 

These days just about everything alongside the river is budding out including this stand of sugar maples alongside the Sudbury River in Concord, MA...

...just downstream from Lee's Bridge...

Cloudy, warm, and calm conditions prevailed on the Sudbury on Tuesday morning.  Perfect conditions for this napping beaver...


...and a red-winged blackbird seemingly deep in thought...


Friday morning found fast clearing conditions on the Assabet River in Stow, MA following Thursday's drenching rains.  Several white-tailed deer were seen bounding across an open field perhaps trying to dry out...


...and a riverside turkey got a little territorial flying past me within just a few feet...


Trash was on the light side...




On the way home a brief stop was made at the Powdermill Dam where the rain swollen Assabet made the two-step drop...

By late morning gale-force gusts of wind had developed ushering out April 2021...a month that seemed more like a March to me.

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