March 29th, 2013: Multiple locations...

Another just beautiful day to be out and about. I went out with my 2 friends and our cameras to a few places around the city. It was 6 Celsius / 42 Fahrenheit when we left and 12 Celsius / 53 Fahrenheit by the time we came home! Right now as I type this it is 15 Celsius / 59 Fahrenheit!

Our first stop was to a beautiful wildlife park, the picture below is just a small pond in it, it is also close by the river, but we didn't get over that far. We spent most of our time in the forest, sometimes on a trail, sometimes not.

Here we saw tons of starlings, 5-6 northern flicker woodpeckers, 10 downy woodpeckers, 6 female deer (and 2 of them fighting), few female red polls, few crows, a few pigeons and 1 very cool pheasant that we walked by and it took off. Scared me to death lol and I screamed!

The 2nd place we went was to the same bridge as yesterday, this image is from yesterday, I forgot to take a new one today lol.

Here we saw the same Male Hooded Merganser from yesterday, a few geese, some pigeons, a red-breasted nuthatch, an american robin, few house sparrows, and a few seagulls.

And then we went to a trail in a forest near this bridge, it follows the river on the right side of the above picture.

Here we saw a northern flicker woodpecker or two, 2 blue jays, a few crows, a few downy woodpeckers and lots of beaver activity but no beavers.

Here are just some of the pictures we took. 

Downy Woodpeckers

Northern Flicker Woodpeckers

Starlings

Male Hooded Merganser

Canada Geese

House Sparrow

American Robin

Red-breasted Nuthatch

Crows

Blue Jays

Some more fun pictures I took!

Look at all the holes from woodpeckers on this tree!

Animal Tracks in the mud!

Awesome tree stripped and chewed by beavers!