Category: Birds & birding
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Secret Signs in the Snow, part 1
I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape — the loneliness of it — the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it — the whole story doesn’t show. ~Andrew Wyeth, c. 1973, quoted on http://www.quotegarden.com/winter.html A wintertime visit to Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens might seem boring or dull compared…
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Coot Feet are the Best Feet
One of my absolute favorite birds showed up at the park this winter: an American Coot (Fulica americana). They seem like a fairly plain bird, until you get a look at their amazing feet! The first picture in the gallery above is zoomed in on the best shot I could get of the coot walking…
The Contented Naturalist 