Hiked All The Major Roads In & Around Quabbin Reservoir

This morning I headed out to Gate 12 in hopes of possibly seeing a moose. The rut is only a few weeks away. Not much going on ,so in my effort to hike all the major roads heading into Quabbin, I needed to hike a portion of Gate 12 and Gate 5 . I was able to get that done this morning. The high-lighted yellow shows the many roads I have hiked.

Below  is a picture from the waters edge looking toward the lookout tower in Quabbin Park.

Jim

A Few New Additions To My Library ( Not from Quabbin)

My wife and I spent last week camping in south central Vermont. I spent four sun rises hunkered in the edge of a flood plain swamp in hopes off adding new pics to my library.

The first morning driving in I did see three adult Great White Egrets and two young perched in a tree several hundred yards out into a swamp.

.                                                                Green Heron

Great White Egret

I was entertained one morning watching a Broad Hawk harass several  Egret young.

Talking to a local birder several Black Herons were seen a few days prior to me arriving

Jim