Kind-hearted people regularly bring bird and other feed in all seasons to the feeding area by the big parking lot at Wilket Creek.
Recently Mallards and even a Pekin Duck have been joining in the hungry group that frequents this area.
Today, someone had provided lettuce and this attracted a Woodchuck:
Other mammals:
Other feeder visitors today:
Today’s group had several fleeting glances of an American Woodcock. I was unable to photograph it but here is an on-line photo:
Today’s group:
NATURE POETRY
And as it works, th’ industrious bee
Computes its time as well as we.
How could such sweet and wholesome hours
Be reckon’d but with herbs and flow’rs! – Andrew Marvell (1621–78)
Miles Hearn