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This is the end of my street. On the third boathouse from the left has a little speck sitting on top - it is a bald eagle.
Native Americans have long considered the muskrat to be a very important animal. In several Native American creation myths it is the muskrat who dives to the bottom of the primordial sea to bring up the mud from which the earth is created, after other animals had failed in the task (Musgrave 2007, MU 2007).
From and to read more about Muskrats go to: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muskrat
This fellow did not mind me watching him at all while I looked for birds. I think if I sat there any longer he would come up and ask me to pet him. Here he is just floating right in front of me calmly while we exchanged eye contact.
Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl. ~Ernest Hemingway