a walk in Habitat

Skippy and I had a great walk today at Habitat Audubon sanctuary in Belmont. We walked along parts of the Western Greenway trail. I wish my camera was able to photograph all of the beautiful chickadees singing their spring song. It is one of those places where Skippy had to stay on his leash. (That's why its see it dragging along the snow in the photos!) I was surprised to see a sap collector on a birch tree today at Habitat in Belmont. Cool! With as little research, I found out that birch syrup tastes delicious, but has a distinctive flavor. Its made much the same as maple syrup, but requires twice as much sap per gallon of syrup and birch generally has a shorter tapping season. It was a good day for pine cone pictures!