About three and a half years ago I published a few photos I
took at Lake Caroline in Fairless Hills, PA. Today I returned to that site, on
a sunny and very cold Saturday morning. The
weather has been brutally cold lately, but it looks like we had just enough sun
and warmth to keep some of the lake from freezing, and to leave most of the ice
thin. The snow on the ground is what
remains from the winter storm last Monday night, which was originally forecast
to accumulate 12-18 inches. It turned
out to be much less, and I was at work on Tuesday morning, although the office
opened late.
I am not very familiar with the habits of seagulls, so I found
their activity here a bit interesting. They
walked along the frozen surface of the lake for a while, then walked over on to
the snowy ground and perched in their spots as captured in the picture
here. Maybe they were warming the ground
to bring up some of the earth worms. From
what I have observed previously, their diet seems to consist of fish whatever
discarded food scraps they could find. It
is common to see them flocking around shopping center parking lots. Here, they
could probably find fish, but I think the lake is only stocked during certain
times of the year. And if this was
fishing season, I think there would be people fishing all around the lake, no
matter what the weather.
My plan wasn’t to stay around long, however, and
it was too cold anyway. At least, I didn’t
come dressed to spend a lot of time in arctic weather. But whenever I can, I’ll keep sneaking in
these photos
