The Quad Islands

It's too nice of a morning to not go out. It's also too nice of a morning to put in where the motorboat types are.  I set out on the Housatonic from the Park Formerly known as the Feral Cat Park.  A couple years ago, the town removed the dilapidated picnic shelter that housed dozens of feral cats. The cats are gone as well.

The tide is coming in and the river current is reversed.  I crab across the main channel to Pope's Flat, follow the edge of that island down, cross over to Carting Island and follow that shore.  I find an embedded glass jar and stop to collect it.  If I remember right, this is this is the only embedded bottle that I have found in the Quad Islands.  The location is directly across the channel from the lower pair of fuel storage tanks at the power plant - 1000 ft from the lower tip of Carting Island.  It is 8 inches deep and seems to be a condiment or instant coffee jar.

I head down to the draw bridge and there, I decide to spend my time in the islands and avoid the motor traffic. 

Between Carting and Peacock Islands, I flush a pair of Green Herons.  Great Egrets are perched in nearby trees with a Great Blue Heron, and I get overflown by three or four juvenile Night Herons. 

Green Heron between Carting and Peacock Islands

Coming down the west side of Peacock, I poke into a small creek drainage.  I haven't been in here for a few years.  I flush about twenty Night Herons and a couple Great Egrets, a bit of a surprise for me.

I head back out, and run a circuit through the islands before cutting across from Pope's Flat back to my starting point.