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urbpan ([personal profile] urbpan) wrote2012-02-05 12:20 pm

Zookeepers at Spot Pond, Stoneham


I took a short hike with some zookeepers (first time I've been in a group of all-male zookeepers since I've been in the business) to birdwatch near Spot Pond (part of the Middlesex Fells). We saw common and hooded mergansers, but not the bald eagle pair that's been seen lately. Apparently the eagles fly over Stone Zoo pretty often these days.


A very small part of the pond is iced over, which is unusual for this time of year.

Five years ago today it was cold enough to...

But we went to Deer Island anyway:


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