Fall leaves are leaving a thin layer along the beach and more are slowly being added with the gentle breeze this morning. It’s cloudy, but several commercial jets and one fighter appear beneath this during our walk.
A new dog often goes with us. She is Daisy, a very young, mostly black lab, mixed with something else and very energetic. Izzy is a tenth her size and goes on the attack when she wants to play, which is often. He has little choice, she is so heavy handed/footed and young-clumsy. She was a stray without a home who turned up a couple months back and a neighbor took pity. This morning she flushed a Robin from the kudzu and captured it at the waterline. It must have been injured or sick for this to happen. While it was rescued and left in a safe place, tomorrow we’ll see if it survived.
The description of medium-sized oyster boats with the V type hoist was a little off on looking at the only one out this morning. The hoist is closer to the bow than the stern.
The river water is much clearer nowadays. This is due to the shortfall of rain. Normal rainfall washes topsoil from farm fields and it clouds the river; helps form the mud flats, too. Less rain means less soil in the water.
A dead rodent on the beach is a first. It might be a rat or a small muskrat. They look very similar and even googling each hasn’t helped, so far.
It’s warmer today; back to shirt sleeve weather for the moment. Three Canada Geese fly northward overhead, less because of the weather than nearby forage.
Jellyfish have been in the news lately, but not here. A few small ones have washed ashore, a couple inches across and lacking any visible tentacles. The news has been that huge numbers of very large jellyfish are appearing around the world and the most toxic forms have spread from Australia to other continents.
