This brightly colored male Mallard was trying to hide from
me yesterday morning at Minto-Brown Island’s Park. It was another bright sunny
morning so I took Buster there for a walk.
It sort of feels like I have been avoiding Minto-Brown, but at almost
900 acres it is clearly one of the best parks around for walking and probably
birding. I guess I have been mainly
concentrating on birding in Polk County because it’s the county I live in, but
just across the river is Marion County, Salem proper and Minto-Brown Park. I also like to take the “road less traveled”,
which means I normal seek out less crowded areas. I picked the South-East end of the park which
is less used and did a loop around the sloughs there as I wanted to get a look
at waterfowl before they all leave. One
particular pond had the most ducks, easily a 100 Mallards, a good number of
American Wigeons, and a few Buffleheads, Ring-necks, and Northern Shovelers. We
walked over three miles and were warm enough as long as we kept moving.
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