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This is just a little community park off River Road, accessable also from Willard Avenue. Trees, stream, wild undergrowth, bamboo. And, of course, birds. But the main thing is that it was a place where I could get away from work for a lunch hour and rejuvenate my feeble mental circuits.
A brief interlude. The bamboo arrived in this local when one of the local families went to Florida on vacation back in the 50's. One of the kids got a little pot of bamboo. They brought it back and it hung around for a while, barely surviving. Finally mom threw the pot out, and that was that.
Well, almost. The pot of bamboo decided that it wasn't quite dead, put down roots, and took off, filling the stream banks with shoots. And thus was the story as told to me by the son of the bamboo importer.
OK, enough local lore.
One is struck by the levelness of the park, the unlikely smoothness of the grade as one goes along the stream. The reason is that this was once a part of some local rail line. There is a marker in the park with more information if you are really interested.
But what we're really interested in is - birds. So here's my birdlist: American Crow, American Goldfinch, American Redstart, American Robin, Blackpoll Warbler, Blue Jay, Carolina Chickadee, Carolina Wren, Cedar waxwing, Chimney Swift, Common Grackle, Cooper's Hawk, Dark-eyed Junco, Downy Woodpecker, Eastern Kingbird, Eastern Wood-Peewee, European Starling, Gray Catbird, Hairy Woodpecker, House Finch, House Sparrow, House Wren, Killdeer, Magnolia Warbler, Mallard, Mourning Dove, Northern Cardinal, Northern Flicker, Northern Mockingbird, Northern Parula, Pileated Woodpecker, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Red-winged Blackbird, Ring-billed Gull, Rock Dove, Song Sparrow, Tufted Titmouse, Veery, White-breasted Nuthatch, White-throated Sparrow, Yellow Warbler, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Yellow-rumped Warbler
This is just a little community park off River Road, accessable also from Willard Avenue. Trees, stream, wild undergrowth, bamboo. And, of course, birds. But the main thing is that it was a place where I could get away from work for a lunch hour and rejuvenate my feeble mental circuits.
A brief interlude. The bamboo arrived in this local when one of the local families went to Florida on vacation back in the 50's. One of the kids got a little pot of bamboo. They brought it back and it hung around for a while, barely surviving. Finally mom threw the pot out, and that was that.
Well, almost. The pot of bamboo decided that it wasn't quite dead, put down roots, and took off, filling the stream banks with shoots. And thus was the story as told to me by the son of the bamboo importer.
OK, enough local lore.
One is struck by the levelness of the park, the unlikely smoothness of the grade as one goes along the stream. The reason is that this was once a part of some local rail line. There is a marker in the park with more information if you are really interested.
But what we're really interested in is - birds. So here's my birdlist: American Crow, American Goldfinch, American Redstart, American Robin, Blackpoll Warbler, Blue Jay, Carolina Chickadee, Carolina Wren, Cedar waxwing, Chimney Swift, Common Grackle, Cooper's Hawk, Dark-eyed Junco, Downy Woodpecker, Eastern Kingbird, Eastern Wood-Peewee, European Starling, Gray Catbird, Hairy Woodpecker, House Finch, House Sparrow, House Wren, Killdeer, Magnolia Warbler, Mallard, Mourning Dove, Northern Cardinal, Northern Flicker, Northern Mockingbird, Northern Parula, Pileated Woodpecker, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Red-winged Blackbird, Ring-billed Gull, Rock Dove, Song Sparrow, Tufted Titmouse, Veery, White-breasted Nuthatch, White-throated Sparrow, Yellow Warbler, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Yellow-rumped Warbler
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