I let the dogs out last evening while I worked in the yard. Woody the golden retriever usually hangs around in the yard jus to be nearby. Mae the pointer circuits the yard checking out every smell and sound. I had been puttering around for about 15 minutes when I looked down over the brook behind the landing where I keep my boat and saw Mae hard on point. I quickly put Woody in the house so as not to have him in the middle of things and headed down over the bank. Mae was very staunchly on point with that pointer intensity showing on her face.

We have had a stretch of warm dry days that have increased the wildfire danger and brought out the black flies. The flies are about ten days ahead of schedule. In fact I always look for the spring warble migration when the flies first com out but the warblers are a little behind the flies this year. The phoebes are back though and we can’t leave the garage door open without them spending the day checking out the rafters for nest sites.