Nature Done Wright

Took a morning walk around the Celery Farm in a soft rain earlier this week and saw several familiar faces for the first time this year.

   These included a pair of courting flickers, a tree swallow and a black-crowned night heron — a first for the Celery Farm this year —
that had apparently just flown in (I even saw him yawn).

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I saw a cormorant fishing for the first time this year, and had forgotten what great divers  they are.
   The shovelers were out in full force,

and aparently a
pair have been seen exchanging affections. If we had a nesting pair
here at the Celery Farm, that would be something.
   I like walking
around the Celery Farm in the rain. I saw only other other person on
the trail. Otherwise I had the place to myself, and it felt like a true refuge, so tranquil aside from an occasional splash of a frog or the
flickers’ calls.

   I saw skunk cabbages in all their glory, and even saw a white feather that somehow looked enchanted, even though something told me it had once belonged to a Canada goose.