I've been trying to get in a number of day trips before Mom returns and when she does our focus will be trips that don't involve hiking! One of my FB friends released a book of poetry and her drawings based on her life long battle with CP. We are actually related through marriage her husband is a distant cousin in my Walling Family Tree. So A visit to pick up her book and to give her a copy of my book...was yesterday. Since I would be driving to Columbia I figured I'd go to the Arboretum that is nearby her location and see what was out and about..
Its only a small place but the trees are mature and it even has a cypress bog!
the little creek was red! I guess red clay is on the bottom...lots of ferns growing on the banks
there was a loop trail and a midline trail most of which is well marked but I managed to get off the trail a few times...
American Robins were around as they seem to be the most plentiful bird going right now...
this is a favorite of mine Clematis I don't know the variety but what a huge flower saucer sized!!
and even tho this white throated sparrow hid behind a twig he was so handsome I kept this shot...
his lores were such a brilliant yellow--another not helpful bird was the American Redstart, he wanted to follow me but he wanted to change his position constantly I had a hell-ofa time just getting this not hot shot! He just kept teasing me but I finally walked away!
I know!! SO far these photos are hardly worth sharing...and it gets worse--Brown Thrasher
Even the normally gregarious Carolina Wren wanted to only peek from the safety of a high branch
Having little luck with the bird photography I turned to the leaves on the trees...at least they can't fly away...
I could hear black and whites, vireos red and white eyed, pine warblers, red bellied woodpeckers, downy wp, above me and then a Ruby Crowned Kinglet only showed me his belly and backside, I'm only basing the ID on that big eye ring...
I had a good walk around the plants were nice, the weather was good but the birds misbehaved! No new ones just good to see some that have been missing since last summer!
Another day of
Time...well spent
PEACE
Eleanor Roosevelt: You must do the thing you think you can not.
