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squirrelitude) wrote2019-06-08 07:34 pm
squirrelitude) wrote2019-06-08 07:34 pm
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Aminals
Today was the first day of the CSA, so I took the kid in the bike trailer out to the farm in Waltham. The crops are only just starting to come in, but we saw some interesting animals: Teenage chickens getting used to people, an Extremely Smol mouse that we cornered near the bathrooms, a hawk getting mobbed, a very industrious honeybee.
On the way back, we stopped at Alewife Reservation to walk around briefly, and within the first *minute* we saw:
- ducks
- a muskrat (?) swimming just under the surface, carrying a lily pad
- a male red-winged blackbird that landed not 5 meters from us on the boardwalk railing, and sang gloriously—then flew to practically within arm's reach to hang out for a bit (did it want food?)
Of course, my camera's battery was dead. so in the next 15 minutes, we also saw a turtle, some fish, a rabbit, and 2 adult swans and their 3 cygnets. (Oh, and a groundhog also ran across the bike path just before we arrived.)
I really need to wander over to Alewife Reservation more often.
On the way back, we stopped at Alewife Reservation to walk around briefly, and within the first *minute* we saw:
- ducks
- a muskrat (?) swimming just under the surface, carrying a lily pad
- a male red-winged blackbird that landed not 5 meters from us on the boardwalk railing, and sang gloriously—then flew to practically within arm's reach to hang out for a bit (did it want food?)
Of course, my camera's battery was dead. so in the next 15 minutes, we also saw a turtle, some fish, a rabbit, and 2 adult swans and their 3 cygnets. (Oh, and a groundhog also ran across the bike path just before we arrived.)
I really need to wander over to Alewife Reservation more often.