Here’s another iced-in bay being melted at low tide by our warmer weather and a freshwater feeder stream. It’s Patten Bay yesterday with Patten Stream flowing in the foreground.
Six mallards there were hopelessly waddling on webbed feet over slick ice cakes, perhaps in a quest for enough swimmable water to hold a sorority luncheon and dabble for aquatic plants. (They were all female.)
(Images taken in Surry, Maine, February 25, 2025.)