The Trails
- Looking back over my shoulder as I started I thought it looked more like November than October, then I realized that of course it was almost November.
- Something bigger than a squirrel ran under the brush as I entered the Sedge Meadow trail. I had to squat low to keep sight of it - yes, it was a pheasant that crossed the path behind me!
- Oak foliage has been bright this year; one oak stood out nicely over a patch of little bluestem grass in the Old Pasture.
- Japanese barberry was colorful in the flood plain along the Wappinger Creek Trail...
- ...all over the flood plain of the Wappinger Creek Trail thanks to its abundant berries and resistance to deer browse.
- A clump of chesnut oak had an eerie yellow glow. The camera didn't see that but captured an eerie blue instead.
- I paused to examine the bird activity overhead at the beginning of the Cary Pines Trail and was pleased to spot a brown creeper. It was an otherwise very quiet day bird-wise.
- The path to Plant Science Bld. meandered through burning bush - another beautiful but invasive asian ornamental.
- I never tire of the view of Gifford House across the Little Bluestem Meadow.
- The dramatic afternoon lighting is usually more than a challenge for the camera, but today something clicked - so to speak.
- It was that wild sky never allowing too much cloud or too much sun to overwhelm the lens.
- And so I went home to deal with the almost overwhelming leaves in the yard.
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Birds
- 1 Ring-necked Pheasant
- 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker
- 3 Blue Jay
- 5 American Crow
- 11 Black-capped Chickadee
- 1 Tufted Titmouse
- 1 White-breasted Nuthatch
- 1 Brown Creeper
- 1 American Robin
- 1 Song Sparrow
- 1 Dark-eyed Junco
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