Slumbering ‘Coon, Waking Broad-wingeds
By Derek Stoner, Education Program Assistant
A lovely waterfall cascades over an old mill dam on Burrows Run.
Walking along the beautiful Burrows Run, with its clean and clear water, we admired the cascade flowing over the remnants of a dam. Past activities of humans still slow the flow of the stream, long after the mill has disappeared.
On Wednesday our birding group visited a lovely estate just two miles north of Ashland Nature Center, where Burrows Run flows through before entering the Delaware Nature Society’s Burrows Run Preserve. We found colorful migrant birds like Northern Parula, Black-and-white Warbler, and American Redstart, but the creature that stole the show wore a black mask.
A raccoon reclines high in its hollow tree home.
A Broad-winged Hawk circles low overhead, after leaving its morning roost.
A small flock, or "kettle" of four Broad-winged Hawks rises in the sky.
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