Crosby Park today: chattering pileated woodpecker, working a tree on the island backwater, just east of the 35E bridge--
a pair of mallards in the stream running out of the wetland and parallel to the 35E bridge-- about two dozen robins turning over countless leaves on the hillside, west of the tiny beaver "pond" or bay on the north shoreline of the big lake(resembling a raised, paddy-like terrace, this pond is apparently spring-fed, as evidenced by ripples of outflow from the hillside; it may also remain open due to the diligent swimming activity of creatures such as the muskrat who was doing figure-eights there)-- small flock of juncos scratching in the dirt path on the river bank-- the usual winter residents, but still no barred owls Linda Whyte
