The Scouting Party of American White Pelicans have arrived on time

The weather has been slow to move toward Fall even hitting the first couple of days of October. Our first real fall cold front is due this weekend with temps falling into the 70s. A welcomed relief from the 55 days of record breaking heat from August 16th. It was an early Sunday morning when I arrived at the lake. The trip was to confirm that the scouting party for the pelicans had arrived. They had. Numbering a few more than in years past, at 22-24 birds. I was talking to Northern Illinois this morning and it is still warm there. Once that cold front hits, no doubt, the birds will be on wing for sure.                                       

Lighten Up Would You?

 It sounds a little silly, but hey, as days lighten up about this time of the year we also do so  with the colors on our web page. We actually do lighten up.

Check it out. We also change the backgrounds behind the main banners. The old 100-year oak from one of the local country clubs has been retired now after being displayed for 10 years and the abstract has replaced it around the edges of our site. We also did a bit of weeding and moved some old static banners around. Would you believe, they didn't even complain. Imagine that!

Many thanks to our visitors so far this year from Norway, United Kingdom, Canada, Sweden, Japan, Indonesia,The Netherlands,Turkey, Ukraine, Armenia, The United States and France. We hope you enjoy our site. 

 My fine feathered friends will be leaving for their nesting sites across the northern states about the third week of  March.  They return to winter on the 12th of October each year with a scouting party of four or five birds arriving about two weeks beforehand.