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Sunday May 24, 2020 #
12 PM
Hiking 1:50:44 6.01 km (18:25 / km) +111m 16:51 / km
ahr:103 max:154 shoes: 2019 Altra LP4.0 9 rspb
Trails around Big Pine Hill (a misnomer) in Pinchot State Forest, Lackawanna Co, PA. Cloudy and upper 60s when we arrived before noon, it cleared up and was sunny, and got into the mid-upper 70s by the time we finished (Glen ran, I hiked). Snowmobile trails were much easier to hike than the narrow yellow blazed trail that wound through blueberry bushes (not yet leafed out).
Not much bird action around (we saw a pileated woodpecker fly across the road in front of us as we approached the SF), but saw a number of painted trilliums and a few fringed polygalas along the trails. And some other hikers (including a couple of Asian women who seemed to harvesting fern heads). And a couple of people on horseback coming the opposite direction.
And three bears! I'd stopped to photograph a just leafing out tree with mottled clouds/sky behind it, when I heard rustling off to my right, maybe 25 meters away, then saw three dark shapes trying to figure out if I were a threat (a couple climbed partway up trees to get a better look but decided the better move was to move away). I got a photo of a receding black blob as the last one headed over a hill.
Otherwise, an uneventful hike. ;-)
Not much bird action around (we saw a pileated woodpecker fly across the road in front of us as we approached the SF), but saw a number of painted trilliums and a few fringed polygalas along the trails. And some other hikers (including a couple of Asian women who seemed to harvesting fern heads). And a couple of people on horseback coming the opposite direction.
And three bears! I'd stopped to photograph a just leafing out tree with mottled clouds/sky behind it, when I heard rustling off to my right, maybe 25 meters away, then saw three dark shapes trying to figure out if I were a threat (a couple climbed partway up trees to get a better look but decided the better move was to move away). I got a photo of a receding black blob as the last one headed over a hill.
Otherwise, an uneventful hike. ;-)
Walking 30:08 1.49 km (20:10 / km) +13m 19:19 / km
ahr:110 max:152
Stopped at Spruce Swamp Natural Area, which didn't have much swamp visible. We tried to see if 1) we could see the swamp and 2) we could see any birds, but we didn't see much. I put my binocs up once and think I saw an Eastern Towhee (black, white, brown in the right places), and the song checks out, so that's what I'm calling it. Song: one or two notes plus a whirr/trill that follows. Glen heard a woodpecker. Pileated songs are put of my hearing range unless they are close by; I can hear tapping.