Tangled Branches: Cultivated
happenings in and around my zone 6b gardens in northern Virginia and in central Virginia
Tuesday, October 28, 2003
Nature notes: I'm going to try walking for exercise. Again. But to make it interesting, I'm going to really pay attention to what I see. So, today, around 1:45, I walked on the path to the south - the one that leads to the townhouses and the elementary school. Down by the first creek, the brush and trees were alive with birds. I had a hard time picking out individuals without binoculars, but a gold-crowned kinglet let me get very close, and I saw a male cardinal (hard to miss). As a got farther up the hill, I noticed the birds were almost all robins (a large flock). Saw a fox near the path close to the school - it was gone by the time I got near there. Picked some berries, which I think are deerberries, and some more that were some kind of sumac (I tossed these into the weeds by my neighbor's fence, hoping to get something better to grow there). Noticed some really thick coralberries by the school. On the way back, again by the creek, a mockingbird let me get very close.
Just now, saw 2 woodpeckers (downy and red-bellied) in the backyard, and some kind of warbler (best guess is Blackburnian ruby-crowned kinglet, not a warbler at all) in the oak trees. Saw the chipmunk several times today, but it doesn't appear to be nesting in the grill.
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