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We went up to visit Dad today.  We had lunch there, and a nice visit.  It ran longer than intended due to some issues with his vehicle, but that's settled at least for now.

On the way home we stopped at a park that Doug found.  It's mostly marsh.  There's a tower and a boardwalk, both a bit rickety with age.  We saw a bald eagle, a great blue heron, a pair of swans, masses of blackbirds, a lot of ducks in various types, and a lot of Canada geese.  There were some small brown-striped marsh birds that I've never seen before.  I suspect they were some sort of rail, perhaps king rails. There was also a mammal swimming, possibly a muskrat.  Something had build big mounds, almost like a beaver nest, but made of cattails instead of sticks, which also had not seen before.  Apparently muskrats make two kinds of homes: a burrow in a bank, or piles of vegetation like that.  Fascinating little park, and I hope to see it again before it gets too buggy.

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