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Stouffville, Ontario: April 6, 2020

It is getting more difficult to find natural spaces to visit in the current health disaster.

I decided to revisit the Eldred King Woodlands and look for the small stream here.

There is also a pond:

I found a Mallard bathing here:

Mallard (female)
Mallard (female)

Scenes on the trail:

Pileated Woodpecker drilling

Some botany:

White Elm (Ulmus americana)
Ground-hemlock (Taxus canadensis)
Beech (Fagus grandifolia)
Lilac (Syringa vulgaris)
Red Oak acorn
Black Walnut (Juglans nigra)
Choke Cherry (Prunus virginiana)
White Pines (Pinus strobus)
White Cedar (Thuja occidentalis)
Balsam Fir (Abies balsamea)
Duckweed (Lemna minor)
Poison Ivy (Toxicodendron rydbergii)
moss close-up
moss close-up
moss close-up

While I was in the park, a York Regional Forest official visited and put up these signs plus yellow police tape at every entrance to the forest:

Off I went to Stouffville:

Stouffville Christian Church
Public School
St. James Presbyterian
Stouffville United Church
Pub
Duffins Creek
Christian and Missionary Alliance
Theatre

NATURE POETRY

April is here! Blithest season of all the year;
The little brook laughs as it leaps away;
The lambs are out on the hills at play.     – Eben E. Rexford (1848–1916)

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