Spring Break sightings so far

I took my toddler to Laurelhurst Park for a stroll, and we had a lovely time at the duck pond. Frisky hooded mergansers were diving & resurfacing (check them out--such bizarro heads!), a couple of Canada geese hung out, and a single double-crested cormorant stood pretty stoically on the island, looking skyward among many mallards. I'd only ever seen cormorants in large groups. A red breasted sapsucker mewed in a great old fir. Laurelhurst is worth the drive from North Portland, and we had coffee at Stumptown after.