The end of daylight savings time; fall back. I love this time-change. It mirrors my body-clock, and make it easier for me to sleep. I got up around 7:00 and headed over to the Effie Yeaw Nature Preserve. It was 43º when I got there, and 50º when I left around 10:30 am.

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There weren’t a lot of deer out today, but I did get to see a lot of birds, some of them close up. Right next to the nature center building I found a pair of male Lesser Goldfinches eating seeds, and a little further down the trail I came across a Red-Breasted Sapsucker that was very cooperative and let me get several photos of him. The best bird sighting of the day, though, was seeing a Cooper’s Hawk, up in the top of an oak tree, having a small bird for breakfast. I got photos and a couple of video snippets of it. I also saw Golden Crowned and White Crowned Sparrow, Mourning Doves, Northern Flickers, Robins, Scrub Jays, a Nutthall’s Woodpecker, a Herring Gull, and the ubiquitous Wild Turkeys, Acorn Woodpeckers and Starlings.

The grape vine leaves are starting to change color, but mostly the leaves on the ground are various shades of brown… and the Snowberry bushes are covered in berries right now. I love this time year…