Sunny day

Kirk and I went on a sunny but cool morning walk on the campground edge along the creek ravine.  There were Cardinals proclaiming their territory singing cheer, cheer, cheer and shining bright red in the sunlit green grass.   A Fox squirrel (Sciurus niger),  the largest species of tree squirrel native to North America, sat munching down his breakfast on a tree branch.  Or perhaps it was just a displacement reaction for those of you who took mammalogy in school.  An Eastern Phoebe has his perch on the edge of the forest on the Deer Creek ravine by our RV.  White-throated sparrows, Robins and Blue Jays proclaim it Spring.  This is a nice place to be whilst the blizzard rages to the north.  We see a pair of mallards and Canada Geese.

 Fox squirrel

Sycamore tree (white)

 Cardinal

Sycamore trees are also called the buttonball tree, due to the brown, spiky seed balls it produces each year. These seed balls grow on the sycamore tree in the winter and fall off in the spring.

Sycamore with seed balls

There was an owl hooting at night and at dawn.