The Trail is Out

Last month flooding rains did a number on many of the places my best friend and I love to go birdwatching every spring.

One of them is so heavily damaged that it could take 3 years and millions of dollars to repair.

A gentle creek became a raging river that turned what used to be a hill full of trees into a massive crater.

Bridges were washed out, crushed or displaced by the strong current and crashing trees, and chunks of the asphalt trails fell apart and flowed downstream where they piled up.

Thankfully there are still plenty of other trees in the conservancy and the birds will hopefully adapt when they migrate through this fall and return again next spring.

Whether there will be any humans in the conservancy to view them is another matter.