Pumpkinseed sunfish

7-8 inch Pumpkinseed

Perch

an approximately 6 inch perch caught in mid-June

Columbine

 

baby oak

...I think. While planting flowers, I found this guy growing among roots of another tree and in shallow ground on top of a large rock. I decided to uproot it and put it in a planter until I figure out to where it should be relocated.

the acorn from which it was born

opening day rescue

run off stream

with the season unofficially at its mid-point, I need to get up some pictures from earlier this year. On our first day open to the public, I had a little adventure in rescuing a large-mouth bass. Because of a whole lot of rain, water ran profusely over the spill-way. Apparently, some fish got carried over in the flow into a small stream that is definitely not conducive to long-term survival for such fish.

spillway

 A couple of our regular fisherman had spotted this bass and tried to fish it out of the stream, but it wouldn't bite. So I put on my boots, grabbed my net, and went walking through the stream until the bass was found trying to hide amongst some sticks. After a couple pictures, I put the roughly 19 inch bass back into the more accommodating lake environment.

                                                                                                

Large-mouth Bass

Black-winged Damselfly

While wandering through the woods, I came to this shallow-stream area in which these damselflies were numerous. I don’t believe I had previously seen this variety, at least not at the lake.

 

 



  The field guide indicates their bodies as being metallic green, but depending on how the light hits them, they can appear to be metallic blue.

I was lucky enough to see a couple females as well. The female Black-winged Damselfly does not have a metallic color body and has a white dot on her wings.

lakeside buttercups