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It wasn’t snowing this morning, and the winds were pretty light. Some sun would have been nice, but two out of three ain’t bad, or so the song goes, right? Anyway, I was glad to finally capture an image of one of the rabbits I’ve been seeing lately. There were plenty of brown creepers stillContinue reading “Another gray day…”

It was a dark and dreary morning, and then it began to snow like crazy. Luckily, it wasn’t too cold, I got out and back before the snow came, and the birds in Estabrook were as busy as usual. This little eastern phoebe, one of two I saw, was busily flitting from perch to perchContinue reading “It’s snowing so it must be April…”

The forecast sun never materialized, so it was a pretty gray morning, but not too cold, and the critters are stuck here anyway. It’s not like the birds are gonna say, “To heck with these gray skies, I’m flying back to the Gulf of Mexico.” Here’s one such bird on the quiet water below theContinue reading “No April Fools.”

I’m sure it went out like a lion for some of you, especially if you had to commute through the snow this morning. I, however, enjoyed riding my bike to campus through the snow, mostly on the bike path, and then Estabrook Park this afternoon was simply amazing, so March went out more like aContinue reading “March goes out…”

As I was studying all the green blotches on the current and future radar to see if there might be a dry patch this morning, Anne looked out the window and said, “It looks pretty dry right now,” so out the door I went, and I never felt a drop. Ha! The wood ducks wereContinue reading “A far nicer morning than I expected…”

It was a cool, windy, and grey morning, and I had to go to school anyway, but I was afraid of missing something amazing, because there’s been so much going on lately, so I ran into the park for a quick visit to just the pond and the river at the north end. The queenContinue reading “Sights high and low…”

As forecast, it was a perfect morning in Estabrook, and I stopped by the pond on my way to the north end to see who the nice weather might have brought out. The main attraction, however, was that the Canada goose was back on her nest this morning for the first time that I’ve seenContinue reading “The Queen Assumes Her Throne”

The weather this morning in Estabrook was way better than forecast. The temperature was 21°F instead of 20°F, winds were 13 mph instead of 14 mph, and so the “RealFeel®” temperature was a full 8°F instead of the measly 6°F predicted. Ha! Plus, the sun was out and there was hardly a cloud in theContinue reading “A spectacular morning in Estabrook.”

It was two years ago, to the day, that I wrote those first four words and kicked off this whole adventure with an email message to some friends and my family. Two years later, it was cold, cloudy, and windy, with snow showers forecast, so I went into Estabrook with pretty low expectations, despite theContinue reading “Spotted a wood duck, again…”

The rain finally took a break, the sun came out, and it was a gorgeous morning in Estabrook Park. Plus, my visit started off with a bang when I spotted this deer sneaking into the woods at the far south end. Even better, she turned around and and struck a pose for us. We haven’tContinue reading “A break from the rain, if only for the morning…”