Gloucester

The new bubbler in the pond is fighting against the cold; some of the bubbles it creates are freezing into little ice domes!

Since returning from Florida and finding the bubbler detached from the pond, I’ve been worried that the fish might not survive this year – the bubbler normally keeps air flowing in to the pond water, and an opening in the ice; but detached this year, ice was solid to at least 10″, with no fresh air 😦

Now, with no snow for a few days, and sun doing melting, the ice on the pond has thinned, enough that we can see orange patches under the ice:

Happily, these orange patches move around too! So at least some of the fish have survived so far.

We installed a second bubbler today, which hopefully will assist the fish in continuing to survive through the rest of this long cold winter.