It was an interesting day in Frick Park. Birds filled the woods with their songs. I spotted a bright red bird high in a tree after search for the source of a sweet song. It seemed too "round" to be a Cardinal, and may have been a Scarlet Tanager. I don't think I have seen one before, and it was at a distance, but it was bright red, with dark gray wings. Its beak looked orange, though, and rather stout. It seemed to have a pretty song, although it is hard to know what bird I heard.
Walking on, the lighting around 6 p.m. created contrasts that made every angle interesting. A Mallard duck contentedly swam in the stream (Nine-Mile-Run, or a feeder into it coming from Braddock and Rt. 376). Reflections looked like a pastel painting. The Columbine was simply beautiful, and is one of those common flowers that always seems impressively uncommon.
Just near the exit of the trail on Braddock and Biddle was a bush completely devoured by some critter. I hadn't realized it, but the critters are captured in the left of the bottom image in this series--yellowish worm-like (larvae?) with dark head and speckles, eating every leaf on that bush turning each leaf into lace, leaving behind small black speckles. No other bush near by suffered this devastation.
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