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Jun. 8th, 2019 07:34 pm
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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.

Date: 2019-06-09 03:14 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
According to Marty Stouffer's _Wild America_, muskrats build similar homes to beavers, but whereas beavers cut down trees to build their lodges out of wood, muskrats collect green vegetation to build their homes (I can't remember whether their homes are also called lodges).

Date: 2019-06-10 07:55 pm (UTC)
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Neat! Thanks for the info!

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