Hi all!
Yesterday, I saw an Osprey that seemed to me to be on a mission
southbound. I watched it alternately soaring and flapping along the shore
from Grand Bend to the Pinery PP beach. I've also been seeing more juvenile
Bonaparte's gulls this week - 5 to-day.
I was bit surprised to see a small ~ 45cm Watersnake on this very clear
and sandy part of the beach - discovered by 3/4 young lads in a dry
sandcastle moat? It was an educational moment as I was able to convince
them and their parents that it was harmless and beneficial(the lads were
more adventurous, each wanting to touch it, but the parents declined). I
took it out into the water about 15M, but it swam back in, struggling
through the surf, so then took it up into the dune grass. My daughter
Emily and I re-found the snake after the boys had tired of it and the
families had packed up and left. It was seemed quite at ease in the
detritus line, within the beach grass.
Cheers!
Maris
Maris Apse - OFO SALES
10094 Red Pine Road, Box 22,
RR #2 Grand Bend ON N0M 1T0
(519) 238 - 8415
