Spring is coming

Soon the ducks will be landing in Lake James, which is created in my backyard each spring due to the runoff from the village dumped snowpiles. The sightings of strange animals and birds will begin. Wolverines, weasels, egrets, teals, geese, ferrets have been spied by various people around the lock. I have seen the weasel, ducks and geese. the rest, I am afraid, live in the world of imagination and early morning shadow.
Last year, there was some predator, mostly underwater, that we were afraid would eat the cats and ducks. I saw glimpses of wet fur and bony limbs.
The lake will be gone by May, when there is nothing left to feed it and the dry sand will be left. Within a month the ants will work where the ducks swam and the mystery creatures will have evaporated with the water.