I went for my typical rounds today.... Rutland State Park. I found a culvert, that I at first though was a natural spring. I cannot imagine where its beginnings lie. It exits in a small bunch of scrub brush at the edge of the largest grouping of fields in the park. I also saw a small finch like bird that was jet black. I saw a pair of them actually. No rabbits yet... I don't think the bushes have enough leaves to create sufficient cover for them . I walked from 8:00 to 9:30. I saw only two people and thier friendly loping german shepard. Some horses had evidently been there this morning before I go there. It seems like the perfect place for that sort of thing. There is a ruddy haze to the trees that bespeaks what is coming.
Robins were out in abundance. The barn swallows were hovering about their nesting boxes and feeding what must have been there hatchlings, not mosquitoes or black flies yet to speak of.
It was a good morning.
