On my way home, I stopped at William Land Park just intending to walk around the pond there and relax. I cut through the WPA Rock Garden to get to the pond, and saw a handsome male Nuttall’s Woodpecker on a tree. He was lifting the bark with this beak and fishing bugs out with his tongue. I got some still shots of him and a little video.
Then I saw several crows near some folks who were feeding bread to the geese. As I watched, I was surprised to see one of the crows pick up a huge mouth full of bread and rather than flying off with it, he walked it over to the pond and dropped it into the water in front of a goose… like he was feeding the geese. So neat!
Along the rest of my walk around the pond, I also saw a Golden-Crown Sparrow, some kind of tiny Vireo, some hybrid Swedish Blue ducks, a Cayuga Duck, Canada Geese, some Red Squirrels, some Fox Squirrels, several American Crows, a Northern Flicker, a Belted Kingfisher flying overhead, a Scrub Jay, and a hummingbird. When I was watching the squirrels, a little bird flew down on the ground in front of me, and I was surprised to see it was fat little Ruby-Crowned Kinglet! He hopped around through the leaf litter for a while, and I was able to get some photos of him.
In the pond, I saw a juvenile Double-Crested Cormorant and a Green Heron fishing. So it was – happily — a more productive walk than I had planned.
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