A Busy Riverside

 

This past Sunday morning found both the upper Concord and lower Assabet  rivers in Concord, MA busier than usual.  Of course the fact that it was Mother's Day had a lot to do with it.  Lots of folks were either out on the river in canoes and kayaks or walking alongside it.

The inscription at Egg Rock showed the river being a little low despite the recent rainfall...

Ascending the Assabet River before 8am, when things were quieter, allowed the song of the wood thrush to be heard near Willow Island.  First time this year for me.

By the time I got downriver to the Old North Bridge...

...the day was warming up and things were getting busier.

In addition to all the folks walking about were these newly arrived Canada geese goslings...

All the human activity may have had this white-tailed deer on the move along the riverbank...

Trash encountered included 4 "nips", some building-material mats...

...and the easiest set of tandem tires to deal with...