Comments on: The Pond in the Park http://ncartmuseum.org/untitled/2010/06/the-pond-in-the-park/ The NCMA Blog Wed, 23 May 2012 20:05:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Stephanie Horton http://ncartmuseum.org/untitled/2010/06/the-pond-in-the-park/#comment-61837 Stephanie Horton Wed, 21 Mar 2012 23:49:17 +0000 http://ncartmuseum.org/untitled/?p=2035#comment-61837 Rough-winged swallows showed up again over the pond this weekend. The flock of hooded merganser hens is increasing there, and a southern leopard frog called from the shallows at dusk. March 17-18, 2012 Rough-winged swallows showed up again over the pond this weekend. The flock of hooded merganser hens is increasing there, and a southern leopard frog called from the shallows at dusk. March 17-18, 2012

]]> By: Stephanie Horton http://ncartmuseum.org/untitled/2010/06/the-pond-in-the-park/#comment-33698 Stephanie Horton Sun, 01 Aug 2010 20:07:53 +0000 http://ncartmuseum.org/untitled/?p=2035#comment-33698 Rainwater made the pond more lovely this weekend. The plantings look complete. You can hear the shrill bleat of the narrowmouth toads along with the calls of gray treefrogs and an occasional bullfrog in the evenings now. Rainwater made the pond more lovely this weekend. The plantings look complete. You can hear the shrill bleat of the narrowmouth toads along with the calls of gray treefrogs and an occasional bullfrog in the evenings now.

]]> By: Stephanie Horton http://ncartmuseum.org/untitled/2010/06/the-pond-in-the-park/#comment-33102 Stephanie Horton Sun, 11 Jul 2010 20:35:31 +0000 http://ncartmuseum.org/untitled/?p=2035#comment-33102 Pond sighting My husband and I were walking on the trail across the pond wall early this morning and saw an immature Little Blue Heron stalking and feeding in the shallows at the pond edge. These elegant white birds with grayish bills and legs are dispersing from their breeding colonies at this time of year. Pond sighting

My husband and I were walking on the trail across the pond wall early this morning and saw an immature Little Blue Heron stalking and feeding in the shallows at the pond edge. These elegant white birds with grayish bills and legs are dispersing from their breeding colonies at this time of year.

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