Today I went on a walk to the wetlands in Mill Creek to see some birds and some plants
Plants: mostly grasses, cat tails, large thickets of
Physocarpus (ninebark),
Salix spp, and some other shrubs, trees and herbs scattered around
Birds: American robins, crows, ruby-crowned kinglets (in chase with their little ruby crowns sticking up!), 2 red-tailed hawks, a bald eagle, mallards, song sparrows, marsh wrens (they were everywhere singing and chattering), a flock of about 20 tree swallows, and a great blue heron
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| Physocarpus, or ninebark |
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| Close up of dried Physocarpus flowers |
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| Cascara |
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| Indian plum |
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| Closeup of Indian plum flowers |
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| Bitter cherry (I think) |
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| Some shrubbery in the wetlands with a tree swallow in the bottom right |
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| The wetlands with a tree swallow on the right side - note the iridescent greenish blue back |
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| A really nice picture of the sky I happened to get as I was waving my camera around wildly trying to get a picture of a tree swallow |
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