Bird Walk

This morning I went on a bird walk with a naturalist from the Wild Center. We walked along the old railroad grade through the Bloomington Bog, starting near Bloomington. We didn't see many birds, but it is a great place to walk. I want to try going in the other end sometime, off route 86. The entire roadbed is a snowmobile corridor in the winter, but perhaps we could cross country ski there during the week.

We saw several cedar waxwings, gray jays, a kestrel, a black-capped chickadee (but not a boreal chickadee, which are also in the area), a yellow-bellied flycatcher, and a yellowthroat.

Since there were few birds and it was another gray day so not good for landscape photos, I started paying attention to the beautiful berries, which were in abundance. It wasn't raining but there had been a dense fog, so most of the berries had dewdrops hanging from them, making great photographic subjects.