Summer days at the pond

So many people come to Cape Cod to go to our salt water beaches they forget or don't know that we are also a great place to go exploring around or in ponds. We have over 300 of them, most of them called kettle ponds because they are kettle holes left behind by the glacier that formed us thousands of years ago. The holes were deep enough to hit the water level and filled with water, hence their name.

On a sunny morning you might find a spot where swans rest at night, filled with white feathers....

The elegant swans may still be nearby....

You may see a big old bullfrog watching for flies....check out his bright yellow chin, a dead giveaway that this is a male.....

And if you look into the water really closely you may see something like this....a giant pickerel, still as a log, hiding under a patch of algae. Click on the picture to really see it--it is quite well camouflaged. Pickerels are amazing predators and this one had its eye on a nearby sunfish nest....