New Hampshire/Vermont
Last week Jacob and I flew out to New England to visit my brother at his house in Vermont, and my parents in Massachusetts. Jacob had never been to New Hampshire so when we drove through part of it to get to Vermont I looked for a birding hotspot close to the highway. That's how we ended up at Ballard Pond in Derry, home of the Taylor Mill Historic Site. Also home to this snapping turtle that seemed stuck but was not:
We walked part way around the pond as mosquitoes attacked and Jacob unknowingly acquired five ticks. Birding was mellow but our first pink lady's slippers of the trip were sweet:
New Hampshire's state wildlfower, Cypripedium acaule
We picked up 15 New Hampshire bird species here with the last being the only photographable one, an Eastern Bluebird perched above its nest box.
Surprisingly this was the only bluebird of the trip.
We finally reached my brother's house but he was finishing up a hike with my nephew on the mountain that can be seen from his de…
We walked part way around the pond as mosquitoes attacked and Jacob unknowingly acquired five ticks. Birding was mellow but our first pink lady's slippers of the trip were sweet:
New Hampshire's state wildlfower, Cypripedium acaule
We picked up 15 New Hampshire bird species here with the last being the only photographable one, an Eastern Bluebird perched above its nest box.
Surprisingly this was the only bluebird of the trip.
We finally reached my brother's house but he was finishing up a hike with my nephew on the mountain that can be seen from his de…
