Our Neighborhood – January 2026
/I took a walk around our neighborhood last week…looking for anything of interest in the winter landscape.
It easier to see abandoned bird’s nests in trees, buds on otherwise bare stems, seeds and pinecones in the winter because there is not a lot of other vegetation to distract the eye.
The occasional bright green of moss growing in muddy areas is a pop of color.
Lichens and bark and shelf fungus have color and texture to offer.
The temperature had gotten into the 60s but I didn’t see any turtles. There was a lone pair of mallards on the pond; they have ducklings every spring, but the turtles are too numerous for the young birds to survive. There was a Cooper’s Hawk that swooped over the pond and landed on one of the bridge railings; I think it is a resident of the neighborhood since I’ve seen in it my yard periodically.
