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| Charles River Peninsula, Needham, MA |
Been a while since I've walked the loop around the Charles River Peninsula.
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| Vandalism to Box 7, which had been replaced just this year |
Long enough to have missed two nesting boxes busted by vandals. And to discover that the two late nesting attempts both failed: the tree swallow eggs in box 2 never hatched; the bluebird chicks disappeared from box 16 before they had a chance to fledge. Despite the myriad tree swallows fledged this year, this one goes in the "L" column...
But just as I was feeling down, a hummingbird zoomed out of the canopy over head and I snatched a bit of oriole song. I spent a while tracking down a blue-gray gnatcatcher in the leaf cover and listening to the loud "zzz"s of fussy waxwing children.
A lunch-time excursion to earlier in the week to Milton revealed this young great blue heron resting on a Neponset Riverwalk dock.
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| Young great blue heron, Neponset Riverwalk, Milton, MA |
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| Surprised by the wind |
And peeps! My first good mudflat view this year.
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| Sandpipers and Plovers |
I think things will be all right.
1 comment:
Rough about the box wreckage.
I've been going nuts with the favorable weather. I now have the Shattuck Reservation covered for trail video in addition to Rocky Narrows.
Both have great launch and dock spots should you choose to head upstream on the kayak.
I also scouted the Mine Brook area in NW Walpole. The Bay Circuit runs through another stunning esker system there.
It isn't a formal conservation area but rather a part of Walpole's water system.
There is an eagle or two.
On an unrelated matter, I declare google + to be a vastly superior system to the mawkish nepotism bias of facebook as I have a host of newly minted stranger friends all over the planet's wrinkled rind who are curious about the area.
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