Our Neighborhood Pond

We are fortunate to live close (800 feet) to a body of water that is respectable enough to attract pond-loving wildlife. This aqueous entity, optimistically named “Silverton Lake” (it is only 6.7 acres in surface area) serves principally as a stormwater runoff collection point for a group of neighborhoods including our own, and then feeds into a system of creeks and marshes leading first to Lake Crabtree (a real lake) in northern Cary, and then ultimately into the Neuse River to Pamlico Sound on the coast. While it is a man-made system, the pond and its upcreek riparian and marsh corridor have been largely undisturbed for almost twenty years and have acquired the gloss of an established wildlife habitat. And therefore we are within the interest zone for species such as Red Winged Blackbirds, Belted Kingfishers, Wood Ducks, and Red Shouldered Hawks as well as itinerant Mallards and Canada Geese. I keep an eye on it when I can: one never knows what might come by.