Recently, another spring-like day was being forecasted. A hike was definitely needed, and I elected to do so along Mahoning Creek.
Although the day was to reach into the sixty degrees even seventy degrees the early morning was frosty.
Teasel backlit by the early morning sun.
A most interesting view occurred early when I was able to observe a flock of turkeys fly across the waterways. I had to wonder why they flew across for the very same food supply was on both sides. They are turkeys and turkeys do what turkeys do.
The walk was somewhere between eight of nine miles in total and my old knees and lower back were aching by the time I returned back to the jeep. I had hoped to see a Bald Eagle and I may have seen two immature ones far upstream flying from the trees. I heard a lone gobbler gobbling across the Mahoning but high up the slope.
First Coltsfoot blossom of the year.
Skunk Cabbage
Over the past two weeks I have noticed the Killdeer, Common Grackles and Red-wing Blackbirds are filtering back from their annual migration.
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Eight or nine miles!!! You are still a kid inside!K. S.
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Well, this “kid” had some pinching in the left knee before he got back to the jeep! Haha