ABC Wednesday: Q is for A Quiet Afternoon Walk in the Woods

In Taipei, it is hard to have a nice quiet walk in the woods.  Most likely we stroll on the street and do window shopping.  It is not Quiet at all.  Things are different on Cape Cod.  There are multitude of woods, marsh lands, kettle ponds, beaches and sand dunes for us to explore.  South Cape State Park is not far from our house and has all these features.  That was what I did last Sunday afternoon.

It was a beautiful day.  I normally walk on the trail along the beach, but this time I first tried to explore the Great Flat Pond Trail that took me through the pine barren and passing through Flat Pond, a kettle pond, which was left over from the last glacial.

The trail is well marked but not very wide.  It is Quiet for the season.  I expected to hear more bird singing, we are coming into the bird migration season on Cape Cod.

The first bird that I spotted was an American Goldfinch.  The picture is not as good as the one I took last year.  But I was happy just to see a bird.

Then came alone this Morning Dove, I was able to get a very clear shot at it.  Click on the photo to see the detail.

Finally, at the end of the trail, I came upon a pair of Rufous-sided Towhee.  I had to keep very Quiet to sneak on them.  Here is the male.

Well, it is not American Robin or Baltimore Oriole for sure, notice the distinctive white belly.  The female looked quite different from the male, she was very shy and did not let me have a shot of her.

I came back to the parking lot and was going to continue my afternoon walk along the sand dunes and you can follow with me on my Camera-Critters #109 and Today's Flower #93.  But before we get to that, while getting into the car in the parking lot, I noticed something moving on my jeans.  I got off the car and removed over 10 ticks from my blue jeans and three from the car seat.  I discovered two more in the car when I got home.  I was lucky that I had my socks outside of my jeans.  Those warning signs posted for ticks along the trail were not for nothing!!

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