{"id":1197,"date":"2012-01-10T21:37:18","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T02:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenprovidencepark.org\/?p=1197"},"modified":"2012-01-26T14:01:52","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T19:01:52","slug":"december-photojournal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenprovidencepark.org\/2012\/01\/10\/december-photojournal\/","title":{"rendered":"December Photojournal"},"content":{"rendered":"

December was relatively dry and warm- it was 55 degrees on the first day of winter!\u00a0 While we did not get snow (sigh), Glen Providence Park continued to be lovely<\/strong>: with fog, frost and ice changing the scenery.\u00a0 And though reptiles, amphibians, insects and flowers may be dormant, birds and trees can be admired year-round!<\/strong>\u00a0 Good thing Glen Providence Park is a bird sanctuary and arboretum…<\/p>\n

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Old drinking well with hand pump<\/p><\/div>\n

We were proud to participate in the Christmas Bird Count<\/a>, the world’s longest-running citizen science project! It was exciting to get close enough to a Turkey Vulture roost to hear their wings<\/strong> as they moved.\u00a0 We counted 108 individual birds of 16 species<\/strong>\u00a0that day, and discovered a few other things in the park, from fungi to an old drinking well.<\/p>\n

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Yes, there is an old and broken bench buried under that tree<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

This\u00a0drinking well with a hand pump<\/strong> was installed in 1936, along with 21 benches throughout the park<\/strong>– they had concrete ends like this one!\u00a0Wouldn\u2019t it be nice to have more benches again?<\/div>\n

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And with further traces of things past, we discovered more fixtures for wiring<\/strong>– the one depicted below was over 15′ high in a dead tree along the path that leads from the sledding hill to the Ice House Trail<\/a>. We know there<\/strong> used to be lights around the pond for nighttime ice skating<\/strong>(!), and there are old wires in some trees along the Ice House Trail which would seem to be from lights.<\/p>\n

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Click on any photo for a closer look, or scroll through the photos below for a virtual tour.\u00a0 You can view more photos in our Christmas Bird Count<\/a>\u00a0post, and in our Facebook Albums<\/a>:\u00a0including\u00a0Wildlife<\/a>, Scenery<\/a>, and History<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\t\t