A Surprise Discovery... actually... Two!

Good morning... we are out for our early morning exercise stroll... Did you hear about the Spanish guy who got a ticket for walking his stuffed dog? Sacrilegious I say!! Stuffies need exercise too you know... Anyhow... we aren't under such a cruel state of emergency sooo... off we go!

Cool... the new sword fern fronds are unfolding themselves...

They look kind of like elephant trunks right now.

Beary cool!

We also came across some wild bleeding hearts...

Spring is full of flowers this year.

And then... this interesting bit of growth... a tree branch growing around the chain link fence... hmmm....

I wonder if that hurts the tree?

Or maybe it heals itself?

Wow, even this bigger tree has grown around it.

You can barely see the chainlink anymore, just the scare on the front... and where it disappears into the side of the tree. I'm guessing that these trees aren't going to make it if the tree comes down!

Oooh... what's that up in the tree just above human eye-height? It looks like a bird nest. Do you think?

I wonder if there are any eggs in it...

I can't quite see... let's get a remote shot with the camera... and....

WHOOPS!! Sorry!!!!!!

Just as we took that pic, the mother robin came back and was chirping madly from a tree, with a worm in her mouth too! We scampered away as she flew ahead of us... I wonder why there's only one little bird in her nest...

That was cool but a really odd location for a nest as there are lots of dog walkers who use this trail and that nest is not very high up the tree at all!

Stay tuned for the second part of our walk discovery!