Kevin Standlee ([info]kevin_standlee) wrote,
@ 2008-05-14 20:05:00
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Current location:Lyons, Oregon
Current mood: pleased
Entry tags:lisa, mehama

A Walk in the Park
Both yesterday evening and today, Lisa and I had enough time to take this walk through John Neal Park in Lyons, which is across the river from Mehama. As you can see from the map, this is a 5.4 km loop, and that's a pretty good walk.

This park has a bunch of ponds and streams through it. There are ducks, geese, what I think might have been a Blue Heron, and several more interesting things. Yesterday evening, we spotted two or three deer across a stream from where we were walking, and I've seen what I think may be a beaver in one of the ponds. No sign of the deer or beaver this afternoon, however.

All of the nature walk is a nice counterpoint to the frustrations of trying to get things to work on Lisa's old Panasonic CF-27 under Win2000.



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[info]k6rfm
2008-05-15 07:08 am UTC (link)
You know what an egret looks like, right? If you saw a tall wading bird that wasn't an egret, it probably was a blue heron. (They are *very* impressive in flight.) Deer are likely visible only at twilight. I've never seen a beaver in the wild, so I'm envious. Swimming rodent might have been a muskrat, though, unless you saw a dam or lodge.

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[info]kevin_standlee
2008-05-15 04:12 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, that must have been a blue heron, because it wasn't an egret. We saw it the day before in flight, being hassled by a crow.

We can't be certain about the beaver. There are formations on the ponds that look like they may be beaver dams or lodges. Lisa says there are definitely beaver in the area, because they had one on the somewhat wild half of her parents' property on the far side of the highway. (When ODOT routed OR-22 through the middle of their land, it cut it into a "civilized" half with the large field and a "wild" half that's relatively inaccessible.)

I do wish I'd remembered to bring my camera with me, though. Maybe next month.

Edited at 2008-05-15 04:12 pm UTC

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