Clark Lake

I went for a bit of neighbourhood exploring today, this time to a park known as Clark Lake.  This park is a rather large 124 acres in size, so I only skimmed the barest edge of the park.  Definitely a return trip is in order.

So, just scratching the surface, I heard hundreds of frogs.  Black-capped and Chestnut-backed Chickadees were bee-bee-beeing everywhere.  I heard a Northern Flicker calling, and a Hairy Woodpecker, too.  A few ducks, mostly mallards, floated in the small linking ponds.  I even saw some dragonflies!

A different view of the same pond:

This creek flows into the above pond:

Even though it rained yesterday, this creek was dry! I don’t understand that, and will have to return to study the reason for it.

The local volunteers have been busy building paths.  There’s apparently also plans for a boardwalk. 

A snowberry bush.

This is how my day started…

Sometimes it’s nice being up at the crack of dawn.