Fowl Meadow? No, it's pretty nice!

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On Sunday I finally got off my sedentary suburban backside and took Charlie to a new hiking place. We ended up at Fowl Meadow, part of the Blue Hills Reservation.




There's two and a half miles of this in there, a straight shot wide enough to drive a truck on, because they occasionally have to drive a truck on it. The local water and sewer authority does some kind of work here.


On either side of the raise path there was water, some frozen some not.


Invasive phragmites to the left, native cattail to the right.


I took the first opportunity to get off the wide path onto a more narrow one that followed the Neponset River. Here is one of the four improvised bridges that cross the little streams that feed the river. I had to take Charlie off leash for the crossings, or else we'd both have ended up in the drink.


Eventually even found some fowl (and yes a meadow later on too).


I found two places where some animal had rubbed the bark off a small tree. Anyone know what does this? Is it deer rubbing the velvet off their antlers or something? Also found a pile of feathers where a duck was eaten, and a pile of coyote scat.


Just before I closed the loop, I found Paul's Bridge. Across Paul's Bridge (across the river, that is) is the southernmost part of Hyde Park, the southernmost neighborhood of Boston. I think I might go back and try to puzzle out exactly where that point is.