Meet Baldy! Clarity attracts farsighted fishing.

Fresh Pond’s clarity this summer has has attracted a giant bald eagle.

Last Wednesday, Jerri wrote: “Just saw a giant bald eagle sitting on a dead limb in the southwest cove. He flew off as I got closer and flew around the pond a couple of times… He started to fly above the tree line where a very brave osprey dive bombed him multiple times until he flew away… Amazing to see.”

This morning, Peter was swimming for hydrotherapy when an eagle appeared overhead and flew into the trees where Laurie was able to photograph him. “He swooped back over the pond, a wing span of easily 6 feet, not more than 20 feet above me. One lives for such moments.”

Once again, green dots were not visible on the north side of the pond until after 9:30, when they use their remarkable floatation skills to come up to the light.

Also, Lucy reports no green dots were visible yesterday evening on the east side of the pond.

Plants evolved by absorbing cyanobacteria into their chloroplasts, thereby gaining the ability to photosynthesize light. These green dots literally created earth’s early oxygen rich atmosphere and can use the oxygen they produce to float up in search of the sun and float back down for food (phosphorus). This is why we must clean up the bottom of the pond as well as the top!