How was your weekend? Hopefully lovely and relaxing! I wasn't able to travel far for the Memorial Day weekend, but I did get to do a little bit of hiking. Or well, walking on a gravel path, to be more honest. In a beautiful little spot in Madison, the Cherokee Marsh.
Partly I wanted to go because I've suddenly become some sort of amateur birdwatcher. Funny what a birdfeeder in the yard will do to a city girl. Who knew there were so many different little birds out there? So I packed up my little binoculars and my bird identification book and headed into the marsh. I did get to see a few new ones, including a House Wren, a Great Crested Flycatcher, a Yellow Warbler and a few Tree Swallows!
i absolutely love the photo of the pier/deck. what a beautiful meditation. thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteLast year when we were at Devil's Lake, we saw these really cool birds. I had never seen anything like it before and didn't have my bird book with me. I looked it up when I could and it was called a "Cedar Waxwing"...they are so cool! Evidently they are known for eating too much (fermented)fruit off trees and they end up getting drunk. Heehee!
ReplyDeleteOh the Cedar Waxwing is so cool! I haven't seen one in person but it came up in the bird book during our search for what turned out to be the Great Crested Flycatcher.
ReplyDeleteWe were delighted to see a Baltimore Oriole in a neighborhood not far from Cherokee Marsh that weekend. It seemed to be stuck on looking at itself in the driver's side mirror. Beautiful orange.
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