Trunks.
Today Jack and I hiked all the Beech Hill Trails with our friend Kristen. The humans wore snowshoes.
We were first to walk the wooded trails since the latest snow, which had cloaked the forest floor with a smooth white blanket, rumpled here and there, riffled by the shadows of bare hardwoods, dotted with the tracks of squirrels and hares, coyotes and turkeys and voles. A small flock of robins flitted through the trees.
Brilliant sun, white snow. At the windy summit, we spotted a little bunch of snow buntings in flight. Down at Beech Hill Road, we heard the high twee! tweee! of waxwings. Returning into the woods, we heard a woodpecker drumming but never actually the bird.
Lovely day, great hike. Sun on snow.
Beech Hill List
Beginning at 1 p.m., I hiked all trails.
1. American Robin
2. Herring Gull*
3. Snow Bunting
4. Black-capped Chickadee (v)
5. American Crow* (v)
6. Cedar Waxwing*
7. Woodpecker (sp.—drumming)
Elsewhere
8. Mallard
v = Voice only
*Also elsewhere
Tags: American crow, American robin, black-capped chickadee, Cedar waxwing, herring gull, mallard, snow bunting, woodpecker
