Weekday Walking

As mentioned in earlier posts, I walk during lunchtime and I thought I would take you thru a little tour of my walk. I pass several well known business headquarters such as Autodesk and Deka Research (inventor of Segway):

  This is most of the Autodesk building (not including the taller building to the right)
 

I also pass the Manchester campus of UNH:

 

I park behind the UNH campus (it's public pay for parking). I park way over at the top, left behind the smaller building that is close to the bridge. I have to cross the entire parking lot and pass behind another building to get to work. I could park a whole lot closer by parking on the street (or even parking in the lower right corner of the parking lot), but I get a really good walk in before and after work by parking where I do.

 

I pass by Rock 101 / WHEB offices - of course they are on the other side of the river:

 

And I pass the ducks. Usually there are only a couple of ducks in evidence, but Friday, with the low at 6 degrees, and noontime temp of 18 degrees, the ducks were congregated toward the shore. There were two groups (and yes, that is ice on the river):

 

And, some other shots of the river:

 
  Viewing area down to the river.

That is pretty much my walk. I didn't show you much of the street side as yep, it looks pretty much like a city with tons of cars parked alongside.

Even with the colder temps, there have been plenty of the "regulars" out walking at lunch. We are supposed to get freezing rain starting this afternoon and into tomorrow morning, so I'll just have to wait to see if I get to go walking tomorrow.

Comments

[Cop Car]

Bogie--What a lovely walking tour you take each day. (I note that all of the ducks on the day you took the photo are Mallards. Perhaps you sometimes get other kinds?) Thanks for showing us your route.

[bogie]

Those are the only ducks I've seen. There are a lot of gulls too (no, I don't know what kind).

There might be other kinds of ducks, but I didn't start working there until late October, so others might have migrated - do ducks migrate?

[Cop Car]

Bogie--Most ducks do migrate and I doubt that your winter weather is mild enough for many to decide that you are far enough south. You might see green-winged teal (small duck) and greater or lesser scaup (mostly on the coast), but you are correct that most of the ducks are there in the summer or are migrating through. Mallards are about all we see here during the winter - only because humans have provided water that is rarely completely frozen over, in the form of sand pits and small lakes in residential and business areas.