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Photo Diary: Walnut Woods State Park, Des Moines IA [1]

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Date: 2022-08-27

This is a nice park just outside Des Moines. There are walking paths and a dedicated campground.

Some photos.

For those who don't know, I live in a converted campervan and travel around the country, posting photo diaries of places that I visit. I am currently in Iowa.

The park

Playground

Inside the park

Yes, there are lots of Walnut trees

Raccoon River

Canada Geese on patrol

Two Great Blue Herons and another Goose

White-Breasted Nuthatch

Chipmunk

Earwig trying to hide in a grass stalk

Some kind of hemipteran

No idea what this is

Osprey—a cropped shot at long distance

Cormorant—another cropped shot at long distance

I think this is a Gopher tunnel

A pair of Harvestmen

Woodpecker — Downy or Hairy

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