Happy 4th: Amazing picture of a loon from Steve Bejarano as the fog lifts off the lake

Great Blue Heron on Loon Island

Thanks to Chris Callaway for this fantastic picture!

Monster From the Deep?

Thanks so much to Donna Nickel of Teal Lake for sending us the following picture and note:

The last week of September, 2010, I found a rather hard, gelatinous thing floating in the water by our dock. This thing was about four inches long, three inches wide, and about three inches thick. There was a green leaf in it. It looked as though there was brown dirt or sand stuck on the outside.   This year, on October 8, we found growths of the same thing clinging to the bottom of our johnboat.  

Kristy Maki, the Sawyer County Aquatic Invasive Species Monitor, indicates that this is not a monster after all.  Rather it is likely Bryozoa.  continue........

Eagles of the Quiet Lakes: October 2011

Thanks to Ron & Lynn Kunz for these wonderful pictures.

The Great Duck War, by Penny and Roger Hage

It was a sunny, day in July and my daughter, grandchildren and myself were swimming by our place.

We noticed a family of ducks coming our way and the children ran to get some bread to feed them.   This family of ducks consisted of a Mom and 10 teenagers.  Everything was going well until another family of ducks approached us.  This second family was a Mother and 5 downy babies.    continued......