Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Northbridge Ponds (3/4)

After my walk along the bike path I headed out to Northbridge to check out the ponds. The first one that I came to was still frozen over to a thickness that people were actually ice fishing on it. So, I continued on to the pond across the street from the Northbridge high school. As I approached the bird blind I spooked a Great Blue Heron that had been standing on the muddy banks of the pond. On the water were mostly Black Ducks, Mallards, and Canada Geese but I did find a pair of Hooded Mergansers and a solitary Common Merganser.

But the best “sighting” at this pond was actually a familiar song. From the reeds I heard the repeating call of a Red-wing Blackbird... my first of the season. This is a sure sign that spring has arrived.

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