October 26th. Out early, hoping for a sunrise. Didn't get much.

 

 

 

 

 

Wood Ducks (Aix sponsa)...

 

...and Mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) around.

 

 

 

 

 

A distant Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus).

 

October 27th. Twenty-nine degrees and frosty.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The American Coot (Fulica americana) is still around though masked by trailside vegetation.

 

Afternoon heading east past Cook Hill Road in Lebanon.

 

 

 

The cattle were all out enjoying the fine weather.

 

 

 

My turn around point under the powerlines.

 

Circling above me was a Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura).

 

 

 

 

 

A Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) was circling with the Vulture.

 

 

 

 

 

October 28th. Another frosty morning where the trail is open to the sky.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Late afternoon at Norton's Pond. Mallards (Anas platyrhynchos).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

October 29th. Canada Geese (Branta canadensis) at Cranberry Bog.

 

 

 

 

 

Female Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos).

 

 

 

Female and male Mallards, bottoms up.

 

 

 

 

 

At the farmyard west of Smith Street.

 

 

 

 

 

October 30th. Afternoon at Lyman Viaduct in a light mist. Heavy rain expected shortly.

 

Looks like the trail has been prepped for Saturday Morninig's Ghost Run half marathon from Hebron to East Hampton.

 

The iron work skeleton of the viaduct still exists under the fill - rising 137 feet above Dickenson Creek. The viaduct is nearly a quarter mile long.