No pond is complete without wasps.
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![[Wasps]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-06-14--nests-azaleas-sycamore-pond-wasps-tanager-spider/20200614_195446.jpg)
Mystery pond berries 2020-05-03
What are these mystery berries that grow on the beaver dam and on islands in the pond?
![[Closeup]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-05-03--butterfly-snake-dogs-cormorant-heron-beavers-dogs-pond-longleaf-fencewire/20200503_150506.jpg)
We think they’re probably some species of Smilax. Continue reading
Dogs in beaver pond
Yellow Dog and Brown Dog cooling off in a beaver pond.
![[Dogs in water]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-05-03--butterfly-snake-dogs-cormorant-heron-beavers-dogs-pond-longleaf-fencewire/20200503_141956.jpg)
Gretchen is represented by her camera there on the right.
-jsq
Video: Wasps 2020-04-12
Something to avoid on the water.
![[Wasp nest]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-04-12--azaleas-pond-dogs-herons-woodpecker/20200412_111955.jpg)
As good a video as I could get, since I didn’t want to get any closer: https://youtu.be/ezt2ksMwz8I.
Stay tuned for great blue herons and a red-bellied woodpecker.
-jsq
Video: what is this floating bottom plant? 2020-04-12
Gretchen wants to know what is this plant that she found on the floating bottom?
She plucked it from here. Continue reading
Azaleas, Pond, Dogs, Herons, Red-Bellied Woodpecker 2020-04-12
The dogs like this.
![[Dogs in boats]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-04-12--azaleas-pond-dogs-herons-woodpecker/20200412_111237.jpg)
Some pretty things bloomed on the way to the pond. Continue reading
Pond, Dogs, Sycamore 2018-10-04
Pond with dogs at dusk
Icy Pond 2018-01-03
Snowmaggeddon was a good day to stay off the roads, so I took a kayak on our pond. Saw buzzards, heard some ducks and probably a beaver. Lots of plants looking very strange.
Icy boats, Put-in
Ice on pond, Put-in
Clear spot under log, Put-in
Frozen, Put-in
Movie: Ice breaker (18M), Starting out
Ice, clear, snow, The pond
Snow behind, The pond
Ice floe, The pond
Two ice, The pond
More ice ahead, The pond
Ice on top, Floating bottom
Various plants, Floating bottom
Tree limbs, Floating bottom
Snow drift, Floating bottom
Frozen, Floating bottom
Siberia, Floating bottom
Detail, Floating bottom
Grass, Floating bottom
Heron tree, Floating bottom
Lily pads, Floating bottom
Slant tree, East Shore
Mistletoe, East Shore
Ice mistletoe, East Shore
Slant to mistletoe, East Shore
Spanish moss, Center
Water colors, Center
Ice and fluff, Center
Ice tuft water, Center
Floating bottom edge, Center
Lily and bladderwort, Center
Lily pads, Center
Near and far, Center
Old dam, Beaver houses
Movie: Wind and ice (16M), Beaver houses
Video
Beaver mansions, Beaver houses
Closer, Beaver houses
Closeup, Beaver houses
Lily with ice, Between dams
Movie: Icy beaver dam (20M), Between dams
Video
More ice below, Between dams
Along the beaver dam, Between dams
Sky, Between dams
Shiny ice, Between dams
Shiny shore, Between dams
Ripples, Catface
Paddle and shore, Catface
Shore, Catface
Way out, Turn back
Lily ice, Turn back
Lily, Turn back
Ice, Turn back
Reflecting, Big beaver house
With banana boat for scale, Big beaver house
East slope, Big beaver house
Top, Big beaver house
Point with paddle, Yellow jessamine
Two flowers, Yellow jessamine
Beaver house, jessamine, Yellow jessamine
Lily pads, East shore
Ice, East shore
Ice encroaching on lily pads, East shore
Ice pad closeup, East shore
Across the ice, West shore
Cypress, Northwards
Cypress portrait, Northwards
Far shore, Northwards
Video playlist.
-jsq
Snow and Ice 2018-01-03
I did eventually break the ice for the dogs, but then they said the water was too cold. Lots of odd stuff during Snowmageddon.
