Fletcher Park's new water garden was recently finished.
The mallard ducks have already found the lowest and largest pool, which is part of a sequence designed to slow and filter water headed down to Pigeon House Branch.
Culvert feeds from baseball field.
The "spring-fed creek." (seep)
Irrigated lily garden.
Here is where the water exits down to Pigeon House Branch.
Pigeon House Branch west of Capital Blvd.
The Redbird sculpture at Fletcher Park.
A great blue heron browses a granite outcrop on Pigeon House Creek at Capital Boulevard. Pigeon House has headwaters at Edna Metz Park and Cameron Village and follows Capital Boulevard east after being culverted through much of its path through Cameron Park and down Johnson Street.
Notice the streamwatch unit here at Cameron Village. Underground are the headwaters.
Edna Metz Park
Looking east from Edna Metz.
Pigeon House flows under a porch in Cameron Park.
Pigeon House beside Johnson Street.
West Street and Dortch by the city salt barn.
Wade Ave. ramp off Capital
Fletcher Park's waters join Pigeon House.
Capital Boulevard light tower
Pigeon House Creek at Watkins Grill on Louisburg Rd.
I posted these deer pictures at Raleigh Nature as an antidote to some ranting about Ward Transformers and the PCB mess. Below is more from the trip that provided the images.
Cara and I camped at Doughton Park this August, browsing the Parkway up just
Above is a view of monandnocks rising from the Piedmont as seen from the Blue Ridge escarpment. Below is a selection of images from our hikes, including a large set of mushrooms.
a pair of walking sticks
