I'm back from an afternoon in the park.
The day started off with this guy, he has string of conneted burrows under he snow, this one has many entrances and this one doesn't even have foot prints going to it. Obviously he got there in a snow tunnel.
There's still couple of feet of snow, but there is open water in the creeks of Algonquin. Costello Creek.
Speaking of tunnels under the snow, this guy was taking stored food from his tunnel and eating it out in the fresh air.
What's a winter visit to the park without Pine Martens?
A "lifer" for me, a Horned Lark. Fortunately there was someone there who knew what it was. I wouldn't have.
I stopped at the Whitney Dam because a rare to the area duck ( A Widgeon) was reported there a few days ago, all I got was this heron. With wild critters you take what you get.