Local Parks, Spring 2005

Stony Creek Metropark, February 2005

You might not see the animals, but you do see their tracks.

After a recent thaw, the snow was dangling above stones and logs.

Stony Creek Metropark, March 2005

Wild turkeys

A good deer track

They raise osprey chicks in the shed.

Lesser scaup diving ducks

A red-tailed hawk

Holland Pond, River Bends Park, March 2005

This is a section of a park about 5 miles from our house that we never had been at before. From the road, I noticed the heron nests while I was going to another park. Well, Marian and I have a new favorite park (at least for now) that is only 5 miles from our house.

These are great blue herons. Often, they fold their neck up as in the previous picture. Here he has it extended.

This one is flying in to his mate.

That's another one going to get some nesting material.

That is a muskrat in the lower left.