Fannie Stebbins Wildlife Refuge

My father and I went to the Fannie Stebbins Wildlife Refuge in Longmeadow Mass. today. It's a large protected wetlands near the Connecticut River and the Mass/CT border. It's kind of amazing that we've never been there before--my dad just found out about it from a friend--Dad has lived within a couple miles of the place for the past 33 years.
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3:00 snapshot #479

My dad and Charlie love each other.


Lately my dad has had chickens wandering through his back yard. This was farm country a hundred years ago, but it's solid suburbs now. Someone must have caught the backyard bird bug from Susan Orleans.

Urban Nature Pictures 4/22

Black medick, a weedy legume and close relative of alfalfa.