A Park Every Weekend (week one)

The first park of our project to visit a park every weekend was one that's right in our area that neither of us had ever been to before. It is a fairly new trail, just opened in 2000, called the Reservoir Woods trail. "You can walk for miles in this 120-acre Roseville park and see little sign of development — just hilly terrain with lots of pine trees, wetlands, prairie grass, and savanna." (More here.) The section of the trail through pine trees has that wonderful pine smell. It's a really nice trail! We like it. We saw lots of the usual birds like robins, cardinals, and blue herons. But we also saw a couple new ones - the chestnut-sided warbler and the yellow-rumped warbler. They are pretty little birds, just migrating through headed farther north for the summer.