Female Cowbird
Trillium
Trout Lily
Violet
Wild Ginger
Willow Flower
Willow Gall
Wood Anemone
Robin
Tree Swallow- Female
Tree Swallow -Male
Blue Cohosh Flower & Spring Leaves
Chipmunk
Barn Swallow on the roof of Pearce House
This wast a great birding hike of Mast Trail…
Brown Headed Cowbird
Bufflehead Ducks
Mallard
Orchard Trail
Rouge River
Coyote Tracks
Up Mast Hill
Poison Ivy Berries
Racoon tracks in the snow
Rabbit tracks in the snow
Deer tracks in the snow
An Albino Mallard
Salmon Heading Upstream
Beaver Dam
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Kite wire removal…
Fungus in mid-December
Partially drained pond at dam end…
… in Beare Wetlands
Careless kite flyers should remove their kite wire, as these hikers last week did after finding this strung between trees at a height dangerous for birds.
The Beare wetlands pond was partially drained for inspection…
Photos by hike leader Larry Noonan
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Rainy Woodland Hike
Beaver Still Hard At Work
Lots of Water Everywhere
The Swollen Rouge
William Murison and his family arrived in the area from Aberdeen, Scotland in 1856, first building a log home then this brick dwelling. Read Larry Noonan’s account of it by clicking above.
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