2016 winding down

Another year prepares to bite the dust.



I hope we will move into a peaceful 2017.



I have reached the age where uneventful is a good thing.



I certainly wasn't always like that.



For me the big events I enjoy are happenings like the gulls returning to the lake for the winter.



It's odd the way gulls leave the lake near my house in the spring and return in the winter.



Another change at the lake is the Canada Geese move away from the sandbars at the bridge in the winter and hangout on the dam and in the fields.



The Canada Geese return to the long bridge and sandbar side after their babies are starting to grow up and sometime before then the gulls go away until the next winter. 



I've never quite been able to figure out the reason for these shifts.



Cormorants are another group that tend to disappear in the summer and come back in the fall. 



The gulls and cormorants hang out on the sandbars that were full of geese until about a month ago when the geese moved to the other part of the lake. The mallards tend to hang out pretty much anywhere around the lake without visible changes by season.