Up at four a.m. Objective: see the sunrise at Bennington Lake. We leave while the neighbor still has his Christmas (!) lights aglow. Even at 5 a.m., we find fisherpersons just arriving as well. And just a bit later, we see several people illicitly swimming across the lake. We only circumnavigate about half of the lake, instead concentrating on the bird-intense swampy areas. I spot about three herons and some geese, and hear many more of something, but KAE has spotted and ID’d many more. After a coupe of hours, we head out for the next MDay adventure. Too many projects, too much backlog, too little time — I don’t have time to be more selective, so here goes a bigger batch of documentation than I had intended:
[rDay Fifteen-Hundred-Ten]