Saturday, September 3, 2011

The End is Near

Forecast predicts an abrupt end of super hot days tonight with passage of a northern front. Early 7:30 I met Elizabeth N and we entered the NE Gate; walked down to the Elm Bridge; across to Fence corner; south to H10; west to Dune Trail; up to Main South trail; west to SW Gate; back east to C10 and north to hit the Trans OWP; west to Ponds and east along Northern Loop to exit up Pipeline.
We saw one box turtle north of the West Pond. There were 4-5 older whitetail deer.. one doe 20 feet away watched us unconcernedly and then scratched its ear. There were 2-3 yearlings dashing away up in the NE Woods.
Pecans starting to come down. We passed a small pit fall trap at the base of big pecan snag west of Tall Stump.. and saw Anna's tree plot on the South Boundary trail with yellow flagging on each tree.
We saw understory hackberry and green ash dying at Barney Jct.
Elizabeth is interested in creating a tree tutorial trail in the Woods and we talked about how to identify each tree in a NE section of the Woods.
One yellow lab stray dog up with young yearling deer in NE Woods.

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