I took this window of no-lab week to take a walk down to the waterfront of Champlain Lake to enjoy the view of the somewhat frozen shore I I’d seen a few people talking about online. On my way out of my dorm I wanted to document the high population of American Robins that I’ve seen congregating on Athletic campus as the weather got warmer. Every time I step out of my dorm I’m greeted by these robins chilling out in the barren trees. They seem to be well feed- but are still evasive as soon as I pull out my camera so I’ve been struggling to capture a photo of them. I was lucky enough to get a grainy image that is focused enough to really document one of the birds, and I promptly uploaded it to inaturalist where I’ve been put to shame constantly with my novice bird photography skills.\
For some reason my computer has decided that my bird pictures are too bad to be uploaded so here’s a spoiler of another bird sighting on my walk.
After another humiliation by the campus American Robins I made my way downtown and to the shoreline where the water has frozen over and created a really beautiful landscape. Along the bike path which I followed a all the way to Rock Point there was a ton of track, though it seemed like most of them were from domestic dogs that walkers commonly bring to walk on the path.
I really loved seeing all of the frozen over water. You can sort of see the frozen shoreline in some of my photos and even a frozen stream that drains into the lake in the most recent photo (See above on the right).
And of course my favorite part of this venture was seeing a cardinal in one of the tree along the path.
And finally some more shots of the frozen lake and tracks!
