My last post on Accotink Park was too short on pics, although the fox pic was just about perfect. So here are a few more pics from the park.
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I had an hour to hike at Accotink Park this morning. Some pics, with maybe more later. This park is not so easy to access, but a nice bit. There is an area of graffiti that I will get to, but not now. For now, a photo taken along the trail.
Riverbend Park is just upstream from the National Park of Great Falls. Lots of hiking available here. A few pics from my walk. Pimmit View Park is a small park along a very minor stream. Basically a bit of riparian forest among the houses of Pimmit Hills located just west of Falls Church, Virginia. The area is in a program for eradicating invasive species and planting rare native species, as best I can determine. The birds and flowers and frogs are mostly figured out on the tepuis, but the little stuff is where the new stuff is.
One of my trips was to the Chimantá tepui in Venezuela (click the VZ category for more blog pics from there). And one of my photos is of a Rufus-collared sparrow on that tepui.
This sparrow is quite common in places across much of South America and even up into Mexico. I first saw it on my travels in the Dominican Republic some 15 years ago, and have seen it in Peru as well. But on the VZ tepuis, it seems to be a relic species with no suitable habitat connecting it to any other population of the birds. Phone Darwin, as it seems like a brew for a new species to be born in the next maybe 1,000 years? Getting the Latin names right on frogs these days is not so fun, but I think I got this one right. This frog is very small, less than an inch long, and quite a beautiful little critter. Photo from the Firestone Center for Restoration Ecology in Costa Rica.
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