Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Wily Coyote on the Sudbury


Under this afternoon's moody skies, I ascended the Sudbury River from Egg Rock to Sherman's Bridge.  Skies brightened a bit as I was crossing Fairhaven Bay (pictured at left).

Earlier, I wondered if I might be coming down with something, upon seeing this...
Hopefully, the rightful recipient is feeling better.

Just before passing through the smaller portal at Lee's Bridge...
 ...I looked to my right and saw Mr. Woodchuck standing tall...

Only a few hundred yards further upriver some of his woodchuck cousins got a good scare when a wily coyote came loping out from behind a riverside home and, while eyeing me nervously, made a quick strike upon several burrows in the sloping riverbank. 
After a brief dust-up, he retreated (empty-mouthed) to a spot where he may have thought I and any distracted woodchucks couldn't see him...
My, what big ears he has!

Today's trash haul shows that fishing season is underway...
...many bait tubs and three big clumps of mono-filament fishing line.  Recyclable containers numbered 12 with 9 redeemable, and there were 25 pieces of misc. rubbish such as the balloon, and an empty bag of cocoa bean mulch.  YTD = 2483.



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