Located on the top of the Oak Ridges Moraine, Crow’s Pass Conservation Area (64 hectares)  offers 3km of forest floor trails along with a connection to the Oak Ridges Moraine Trail.

There is still a lot of snow though the 5 degree temperature today is causing much melting:

Elderberry buds are beginning to swell:

The area is well-named as I heard crows all morning and even a few ravens. I also heard Purple Finch, Blue Jay, White & Red-breasted Nuthatches, Red-winged Blackbirds and Downy Woodpecker. I saw Black-capped Chickadees and this Junco:

There are 2 trails here:

The Crow’s Pass Trail:

and the Maple Trail:

Views from the trails:

Some botany:

NATURE POETRY

The moving Moon went up the sky,
And nowhere did abide;
Softly she was going up,
And a star or two beside.                – Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

Miles Hearn