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From the comfort of my breakfast table, it looks like an absolutely beautiful morning out. The trees are still, the sun is bright, and the sky over Estabrook Park is crystal blue. My phone said it was 48° out at 6am, however, so maybe I don’t mind waiting for things to warm up a bitContinue reading “Saturday”

Holy macaroni, what a fabulous fall morning in Estabrook Park! The cold, wind, clouds, rain, and even mosquitoes seem to have all departed, if only for this morning, leaving just birds, birds, birds,! And some squirrels and chipmunks. The big surprise at the pond this morning was this little yellow cutie with a very pinkContinue reading “Even more new faces!”

I’ve gotta go to school today, so no time to visit the park, but I was lucky enough to have too many pictures for yesterday’s post, so here are the rest now. You may recall that I had reached the north end of the parky, by the river where they planted flowers to restore theContinue reading “Travelers!”

I needed a coat and hat this morning because Autumn is not messing around. Yikes! There was a wood duck drake in full plumage on the pond again, trying to fit in with the regulars and perhaps get to know a nice hen. Meanwhile our resident male wood duck ducklings are still going through someContinue reading “Autumn has arrived!”

It wasn’t raining when I got up this morning, but it stayed pretty dark, so I took my time getting to the park in hopes that the forecast “partly cloudy” would come true. Well, it sure didn’t, and it even rained a bit, but the pond was hopping anyway! I counted at least 15 woodContinue reading “A new face at the pond…”

The way the beautiful weather has been repeating itself, it almost feels like I should be waking to the sounds of “I’ve got you babe,” but in the last part of the movie when he’s happy to get up and face the day. Anyway, I beat the other old guys with cameras to the pondContinue reading “Familiar faces and a new sight or two”

Wow! Our luck with this beautiful weather just keeps holding. No matter what Billie Joe Armstrong says, I’m glad I’m not sleeping through this September. I did sleep a little extra this morning, though, and by the time I got to the pond, there were already two guys taking pictures of the wood ducks onContinue reading “Some new faces and new behaviors…”

The beautiful weather continues in Estabrook today, and more asters continue to open throughout the park, so I hope you get a chance to visit. When I arrived this morning, things were a little quieter than last time at the pond, with 7-8 wood ducks, one green heron, one young night heron, but no blueContinue reading “Still some pretty sights to see…”

The weather was perfect again, and with the nip in the morning air and some leaves beginning to change color, it’s really starting to feel like autumn in Estabrook. After finding no herons or just the sleepy night-heron at the pond recently, I was surprised to find three different herons there is morning. The youngContinue reading “Estabrook still surprises…”

So I waited a bit before venturing out, and it seems that all the birds just passing through had already gotten their worms and were either laying low, had already moved on, or had not yet arrived. Luckily, there were several regulars about who may have also waited the morning out with me. At theContinue reading “It was a dark and stormy morning…”