Second Walk of 2018 at Wildlife Management Area

We love this place, but it has been hard to access due to construction. We also avoid it during hunting season (although we heard shooting in the section across the highway from where we were walking). I still wear an orange vest as people come out and shoot in spite of the rules.

We had a good hike down to the creek and back. By now we had wildflowers last year. We saw only anemone blooming.

We heard (and briefly saw) crows making a fuss across the creek. We also saw buzzards flying overhead. Other than that, the scat along the trail, empty snail shells, and bees getting water were the only signs of living creatures (okay - there were a couple of minnows in the creek, one sulfur, and two grasshoppers - all too fast for my cell camera). We know there are deer - we used their trails.

As we get warmer we'll be back for wildflowers and milkweed.

[After a lot of road kill, it was time for more living things.]

Publicado el 03 de marzo de 2018 a las 12:09 AM por alflinn329