marcicat | weekend walk recap

Had an excellent walk in the woods this weekend!

*Saw a Baltimore Oriole! (Okay, I saw a bright orange-red non-cardinal bird swoop by and took a guess.) Also a pileated woodpecker! (Very sure on this one. ‘Does it look like a woodpecker, but sized like a crow?’) And a heron!

*Did not see a turtle. After all this time, am beginning to think the ‘turtle viewing area’ sign may be a joke.

*Saw a toad and a snake! (Not together. Both of them startled me, though. The toad was quite graceful about it — hopped to the side of the trail and then just chilled out. The Very Small snake and I were the opposite of graceful. It was sunning itself on a trail bridge, and I didn’t notice until I was almost on top of it. At which point I did a super awkward ‘don’t step on the snake’ dance step, and it flung itself off the bridge into the marsh. Not either of our best moments.)

*Saw a deer! Very classic.

*Lots of mosquitoes. Some ticks. Way too many gypsy moth caterpillars.

*Saw three Good Dogs. (Including the Chinook!)

In conclusion: it was great!

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