There are black bear paw prints, unmistakable, in the mud on the Hunting
Quarter Road spur that leads past the pools where the Yellow-crowned Night
Herons were found earlier. The pools have dried up and the Night Herons are
gone. The paw prints are on the exposed mud flat. This is at the first parking
area down from the Hughes Hollow impoundment parking. Visible to any one
who wants to check it out. Otherwise at the Hughes Hollow impoundments
pretty much the summer usual. Nesting Baltimore Oriole feeding young on top
of a small tree off the right angle path past the first impoundment. Also
Orchard Oriole, the usual Tree Swallows, Kingbird, Green Heron, Redwing
Blackbirds, Indigo Buntings, goldfinches, Blue-gray gnatcatchers, and heard
House wren
Phil Brody |