- Temp: mid 30’s, mostly cloudy, breezy
- Playlist: Best of the Hollies, John Conlee, Yard Birds
- Burrage walk
- Miles: 4.4
- Total time: 2hrs 4min
Burrage consists of open areas of cranberry bogs, wooded areas and lot of water. Was once a swamp of white cedar. The white cedar is once again slowly taking over. If you a birder this would a great place to visit with waterfowl, marsh birds, and migrating passerines. Wood Ducks breed here in good numbers, and Virginia Rails can be heard calling.
There are three entrances to the Burrage, two in Hanson and one in Halifax. Babysitting Ellie who is the best grand-dawg a guy could ask for.
This entrance goes into a working bog. Bogs change in color depending on the season. Winter time you get this maroon color.
The foreground is swamp and in the background you can see the the cedar trees migrating forward slowly re-taking ground they lost many years ago.
Swans are very possessive of their territory. This pond had this one guy and a few dozen geese. It as funny to watch as he would swim quickly to one of the geese getting close enough for combat before the goose would fly fifty feet. The the swan would re-peat the action with another, and another , and another. Poor guy it was a losing battle.
Ellie going down the Indian Cross-way. NA used it to navigate through the cedar swamp. Might have been related to those NA.
She could have very easily walked across the make shift bridge but as usual a nice swim in freezing cold water is always better option for Ellie!