A brief walk around part of Monahan Drain produced some distant and some close birds plus flowers
There are a great many variety of sunflower type blossoms, these were identified as Jerusalem artichokes
Queen Anne's Lace was present from new blooms to drying up seed "cups"
A clump of crown vetch was in bloom in one spot
Some Canada thistle was still in bloom, but there were lots in seed
While not a new plant for me, I never knew its name before - field thistle
There is a lot of tall grass around the ponds, most of it is has silky, full heads of seeds
I don't recall having noticed turtles there before, but one map turtle was partially out of the water on a rock
There were no geese in the pond, but there were a few ducks. It is difficult to tell black ducks from mallards at times. The first two are black ducks and the others mallards (I think)
A great blue heron and an egret were a long way off at the far end of the pond
A few cormorants indicate the fishing must be good.
A cormorant needs a "run at it" to get into the air
