Daily Journal
The doctor ordered more walking, and so I play the role of a dutiful patient.
Yesterday afternoon, the wife and I walked about 1.8 miles. Again saw many crows in the sky, joining their small flocks together. Also saw a lone pair of mallards and a number of bluebirds. Watched a red-tailed hawk glide over the trees, and a vulture wobble on a low breeze, searching for a thermal.
This evening, I managed about 2.8 miles despite the cold wind, and the road that alternated between slick ice patches and shoe-sucking mud. A whole neighborhood of cardinals exchanged terse cheeps from their claimed braches, and a large rabbit splashed across the creek when I got too close. Watched a vulture make his last passes over the field before dusk settled, and a lone whitetail deer tracked me with her satellite-dish ears. Watched a couple of mallards splash down in the pond, and when I got closer I saw that there were at least a dozen pair of the ducks swimming together, trying to stay warm.