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Index of Subjects My friends and I ran that trail last spring. Before the park was opened. I remember stopping to smell the May flowers. We had a toddler in a rugged four wheel drive stroller. I know what you mean by the windfalls. We had to stop and lift him like an Emperor in a Stroller. He found it to be great fun, squealing "More! More!" A beautiful trail system. Angela in Windsor When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. John Muir ----- Original Message ----- From: Hans Toom <Htoom@hfx.eastlink.ca> Date: Monday, February 15, 2010 2:42 pm Subject: [NatureNS] Wetland's Trail, Mount Uniacke Museum Park To: "Naturens@Chebucto.Ns.Ca" <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> > I took a morning walk along the Wetland's Trail, Mount Uniacke Museum > Park today. This is one of my favourite summer time walks but this is > the first time I've done it in the winter, and what a delight! There > was no wind, a nice covering of snow over everything and silence, > except for the singing birds. I walked the loop from the trailhead > near the junction of Highway #1 and the Old Post Road in a clockwise > loop. There was some open water but mostly the creeks were running > underneath the ice. > > The highlight was singing White-winged Crossbills(20++) along most of > the circuit. And can these birds sing! They sing almost like the big > brother(sister) to the Winter Wren, with long and varied trills one > after another. The usual suspects were also present, a few > Red-breasted Nuthatches(3), a species scarce again this winter in my > area, and flocks of foraging Chickadees(20++) with Blue Jays(10+) > singing from the deep forest. I was hoping for owls and woodpeckers > but save for a single Hairy Woodpecker drumming in the distance I had > no luck. > > The good news is that the trail has been cleared of windfalls, finally. > > Hans > > ________________________________ > Hans Toom > Portuguese Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada > Website: http://hanstoom.com > _________________________________
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