Larry A. Smail's Blog

  I completed an entry here on March 4th with a title stating winter’s last hurrah! I guess winter didn’t read that entry for the last two days we have been seeing snow locally.  Approximately, two inches of snow fell overnight, and more is falling as I type this entry.

Canada Goose

Regardless, of the complaints I hear the last two mornings afield were very beautiful. I appreciate being able to spend a few hour’s walking about and observing nature’s beauty.

This morning I was out, and about, rather early. I failed to hear any gobbling. However, as the day progressed I would see a number of turkeys. I saw some in the woods, and saw some in fields as I drove home.

Yesterday, April 8, I heard a gobbler and called the big boy in a strutting, drumming, and spitting. If the hunting season was in place I would have had a fine meal of gobbler burgers in line! Two hens followed him down the hill, too. I called these three birds a little later on, but I could not get any photos. The dense brush and snow-laden limbs obscured any possibilities of that.

I saw four deer, and a gray squirrel, and two big fox squirrels.  

I took a number of photos of just the natural world on these excursions. Sometime in the future if I can not move about I will have these memory photos to rekindle my life as a woodland enthusiast.              

A few days ago, I took a walk near Adrian, Pennsylvania. I walked along a rural road and a railroad track. I saw a fox and discovered the den, as well. This day I would see some turkeys and two deer.