It was a nice day! That’s news, because it had been rainy for the last week. We went out to Great Meadows in Concord, expecting not to be able to walk all the way around because of high water. We ran into my former co-worker Bill Claff, who had been out with his camera and long lens. He said he had seen a mink halfway down the causeway — we didn’t see it — and that water was pouring over the path to the left of the main causeway. We walked that way to see it, then continued on the usual route to the right of the main causeway. The river (Concord River) was up to within an inch of the path level in some places, I mean where the path was lowest, and a park bench just off the path was almost seat-deep in the river:
We saw a moorhen, four blue-winged teal in the distance, a kestrel, osprey, red-tail, lots of mallards and Canada geese, white-throat, swamp, and song sparrows; a pretty satisfactory bird trip. Mostly, it was good to be out in the windy, brisk fall weather.