Boise, ID

Today my fiance’ and I realized that we were closer than we thought to some of the parks around town. So we thought it would be a good idea to take a walk through one we had never been to before. We drove downtown to were two parks resided. We had a choice to either turn left to Ann Morrison Park or right to Albertson Park. We chose Albertson Park because we had already been to Ann Morrison Park and wanted to see something new.

Ann Morrison was by far much bigger, but Albertson Park made up for being smaller by being a bird habitat; which made it all the more appealing. It was way more enclosed with a pathway that was made of neatly placed rock with grass and trees surrounding the people all around. For the most part they wanted people to stay on the path and not wander off into the uncut grass where most of the birds live. It was nice because the trees seemingly drowned out the city noise and made it seem like we were in the middle of a forested area.

The first interesting thing we saw was a place called The Eyrie. It had a wooden canopy that blocked out the sun, making it a nice shady area to sit. It was adorned with carved rock benches and boulders. It even had a place were people could read and see what kind of birds the park had in it. A small part of the pond was on the right with beautiful black boulders that had water flowing off the tops.

We left that area after lingering for a while and started walking on the path again. We were surprised to see a variety of different trees clustered together on all sides of us. We continued to stroll down the path only to be awed once again that the path and trees around us decreased to become much more forested with the branches of the trees almost touching the tops of our heads.
We were surprised that we could hear the birds but we couldn’t see them at all. The majority of the birds that were roaming around were geese. A couple geese blocked the path and we had to be careful so they wouldn’t bite us. Andrew mentioned that if there were more geese it would have been harder to ignore them. It was a tad bit disappointing until we saw a black bird in a yellow tree. It was really nice to actually see a different kind of bird. We saw a few more birds but not for nearly as long. Andrew even said that he saw a crane. We even heard a fish splash in the water and could see the ripples that it had made.

The path soon broadened to a bridge where we where entertained by three geese in the water who were flying, gliding and seemingly yelling at each other. We thought they were trying to impress a female goose who was sitting on the grass, but couldn’t tell. After that we walked the rest of the path to the car seeing in the wooded area two deer.