Cutler Park, Needham

[urbpan]

Comments

[cottonmanifesto]

HA HA HA! omg, i forgot that those guys were out there for the rain. SUCKERS!

[interfecta]

This is terrific... I need more slog-hikes like this one.

[interfecta]

Um, yeah, and ditto on the 'suckers!' about the guy in white tennis shoes. What'd you think, you were going to go play raquetball?

[harrietbrown]

I like the graffiti! I never would have seen the face if you hadn't pointed it out. I guess I really am an urban pagan - show me a marsh and I'm like, ooh, graffiti! No, the marsh was great, too! Messy, but great. Love the muddy feet pictures, too.

[cyanocorax]

Glad to see the garlic mustard wasn't taking over EVERYthing. I know it is swallowing my own yard right about now.

[treeclimber47]

I've vainly thought of this area as my private nature preserve. Glad you had a chance to explore it though. It reminds me of what I think African savannah might be like. It is a foreign landscape compared to what I'm used to in eastern Mass. I've flushed up a buck with 6 does, had many close encounters with deer and seen many interesting things. Harriers crusing just above the grasses, Blue-winged Teal with 60 Green-winged Teal in a hidden pothole. Great Horned Owls perched on aspen hunting out in the marsh. Rough-legged Hawk hovering overhead, the vast cattail marsh is teeming with Virginia Rail, furtively skulking just out of sight, fresh beaver cuttings, Northern Shrike, used to be a big crow highway through there before West Nile Virus, massive robin roost in winter and equally massive starling and other blackbirds roosting. The coyotes moved in force in the last 6 years, the deer are hidden more now but their regular trails are everywhere. Special place. A few weeks weeks ago I climbed some old Swamp Oaks in there, here are some

[urbpan]

Thanks for that! It makes me want to revisit, maybe early in the morning.