Least Sandpipers

Connor, Rowan and I took a walk around the park this evening not too long after high tide. Connor and Rowan had taken the path through the woods to skip ahead of me while I completed the circuit aound the shoreline from the river mouth to the Visitor’s Center. I was walking past the first … Read more

Kill Site

While taking a shortcut through the park yesterday, Connor and I happened upon four piles of Varied Thrush feathers like the one seen here. I could not decide how many kills the feather piles represented, but I’m pretty sure it was more than one and I wouldn’t be surprised if it was less than four. … Read more

Colored Snow

When temperatures warm after snowfalls, the snow under many conifers turns yellow. I suspect this is due to epiphytes fragmenting, or perhaps color leaching from them and dripping on to the snow.