Perfect calm evening

It isn't often, especially lately, that there isn't a breeze blowing, but yesterday evening was one of those rare exceptions....

so we headed out in the canoe....

a Seal swam by....there were a pair of Common Loon out there as well, but too far off for a photo.

headed straight across to the log jam at the edge of the Harrison River, you can see how shallow the water is, already.

found these Common Mergansers, only saw one adult female and a total of 17 young.  

doesn't get much calmer than this!

A Muskrat swam beside us for a while, could hear more 'nibbling' in the reeds.

on the other side, lot's of baby Swallows 

most of them appeared to be Northern Rough-wing Swallows.

then just ahead of us, a family of Hooded Merganser...

an Eastern Kingbird perched on a stump at the side of the river...

and then there were the Beaver....

sometimes those encounters ended in an almighty splash - much to the amusement of our little dog...

and sometimes they just happily swam alongside.

Oh, and the Purple Martins....they were there...we didn't actually check them out but could hear them feeding overhead.

Just a perfect, almost last day of June evening....