In March 2020, I drove north of Uxbridge to the Beaver River Wetland Trail which is on a former railway route:

Today I revisited the area:

MYSTERY BIRD

I will identify it at the end of the post.

Some botany:

MYSTERY BIRD

This chicken-like red-brown bird is a Ruffed Grouse.

NATURE POETRY

Raised are the dripping oars,
Silent the boat! the lake,
Lovely and soft as a dream,
Swims in the sheen of the moon.                                       – Matthew Arnold (1822–88)

Miles Hearn