4:30 entry via SW Gate on a still mild (60 F) overcast day. Lots of small limbs 1 inch diameter down all over the trails from this past two weeks of strong winds. A couple of medium large diameter snags down across orange trail.. dead green ash by SW end of orange trail and medium large pecan trunk/ branch down east of tall stump. Both require saw.
Followed good sized raccoon down southern Hackberry Alley trail to Tall Stump. It stopped and looked back at me and then scooted SW to big old pecan snag to climb up and in.. probably home.
The forest is very shady today..feels like it has now gone to 90%+ full leaf out.. all fresh summer green leaves. On this one visit the forest now seems transformed to the dense green that conceals and shelters all within it.
The young hawthorn at the northern end of Hackberry Alley now has nice green fruit each the size of a large pearl.
Construction on the new trash transfer station looks like it has moved along and they are ready now to sod in the NE corner with many rolls of sod sitting there ready.
Heard but did not see dog barking at me on dune west of Grandfather cottonwood.. several minutes.. and another (?) dog barking on the escarpment above the western end of the Northern Loop. Heard but did not see one or more deer (presumably) moving south and west of Elm Bridge.
East end of the West Pond now has 10 foot wide exposed pond bottom from drying winds.
One yellow salsify blooming at Island Crossing. Pool there still dry. One prickly Cnidoscolus on dune near Opuntia prickly pear.
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