tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7628560594047679472024-03-28T00:30:26.677-05:00Walking Through WinterThis blog is a travel journal of some of the hiking trails in southern Kentucky/northern Tennessee. You will notice that I have placed hokku within each post, to enhance the narrative. So, these posts can be called haibun.
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Partially Frozen Shanty Hollow Lake</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For information on <i>Shanty Hollow Lake <a href="https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/kentucky/shanty-hollow-lake-trail" target="_blank">click here.</a></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A couple of days ago we had a snow storm dumping about 10"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">of snow in this area. By today, alot of the snow had melted...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">the temperature was in the upper 30s. I thought I'd take a look at</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Shanty Hollow with snow. It's a short walk from the parking lot</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">to the main waterfall. That's where I'm headed.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Many of the boulders were moss-covered, </span><span style="font-size: large;">creating</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">a beautiful green/white contrasting landscape.</span></td></tr>
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<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Green on white;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Perfect little stream flowing </span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Through the moss and snow.</span></div><div><br /><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Soon after you begin your walk you'll hear a </span><span style="font-size: large;">waterfall. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It's not the main one, but you need to </span><span style="font-size: large;">stop and see it, anyway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">At the top of this hill is a small waterfall<br />creating this perfect little stream. Take some</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">time to just listen to the water and the birds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I saw and heard a <i>Pileated Woodpecker</i>.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo taken from the Cornell website, below.<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Pileated_Woodpecker/id" target="_blank">Information on Pileated Woodpeckers</a></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I'm on the north side of the stream, looking south. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The main waterfall is to the right (west).</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Many of the boulders have little ferns growing in crevices.<br />You can see them in the photo above.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Here are a couple of unusual ferns in the genus <i>Asplenium,</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">called <i>Scott's Spleenwort.</i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Asplenium </i>ferns tend to hybridize creating interesting individuals.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Scott's Spleenwort (<i>Asplenium x ebenoides</i>)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">You can compare the frond size with the penny.</span></td></tr>
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<div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Winter rock ferns;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Growing in the rock's crevise --</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Evergreen...hardy!</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Some species of mushrooms grow in freezing temperatures!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Over time the stream has carved into the rock<br />creating this mini-canyon!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Apparently rock climbers like these cliffs.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">You can see metal rings/pegs in some of the rocks</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I like the way this <i>Yule Fern</i> frond<br />looks in the snow! </span><span style="font-size: medium;">(aka Christmas fern)</span></td></tr>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">A yule fern frond</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Breaks-up the snowy background;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Green and hardy!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The wind and water have carved out some interesting patterns<br />in the boulders. I see a dinosaur and a goat.<br /></span><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I'm at the waterfall crossing over to the south side of the stream.<br />The waterfall is behind me.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The waterfall at Shanty Hollow.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Some of these icicles are gigantic, making a loud booming sound<br />when they hit the ground. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This population of clubmosses (possibly </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">Lycopodium porophilum</span><span style="font-size: large;">)</span></i><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The book I'm using calls this </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">Rock Clubmoss</i><span style="font-size: large;">.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Close-up of the clubmosses.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This area is just west of the waterfall.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Apparently, the overhang creates a perfect</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I was surprised to see these liverworts growing in such<br />cold temperatures. It has been below freezing at night for <br />at least a week.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Liverworts belong in the same group as mosses, the<br />non-vascular plants, <i>Bryophytes</i>.</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<span style="font-size: large;">At this point I decide to head back the way I came, being sure</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">to stop, look, and listen in case I missed something.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">All you can hear is the waterfall and some birds!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Take the time to stop and listen for a few minutes.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Everytime you go walking in the woods in this area you'll hear </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and see <i>Carolina Chickadees</i>. To hear this species and get </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">information about them, click the </span><span style="font-size: large;"> website </span><span style="font-size: large;">below the photo.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo taken from the Cornell website, below.<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Carolina_Chickadee/id" target="_blank">To hear a Chickadee, click here.</a></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This very distinctive leaf belongs to a wild orchid called<br /><i>Cranefly Orchid</i>. The leaf will decompose by summer and a<br />beautiful stalk of orchid flowers will grow where it was!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/440745/16259683/1327616907280/cranefly-orchid-flower+-+Version+2.jpg?token=wpECb6rnMmAPqvpJqlukVTxt8G0%3D" target="_blank">Click here to see the flower.</a></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This <i>Moss </i>species has produced red sporophytes!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">(<i>Sporophytes </i>contain the spores...microscopic reproductive cells)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Heading back to the parking lot. It gets<br />a little slippery, so be careful.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">On the way back I walked past a boulder that I didn't look at<br />before, and I spotted these small rock ferns.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">They look like a hybrid of <i>Mountain Spleenwort (Asplenium montanum) with another Asplenium species</i>.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Maybe Bradley's Spleenwort?? Look at the penny on the left<br />and contrast the size of the fern with the penny.</span></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Shortly after that, I ran across these tiny ferns.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Some unusual looking fronds. I'm sure they're<br />a kind of Asplenium hybrid.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Look at the <i>fiddlehead </i>just below the frond.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">More </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">Asplenium </i><span style="font-size: large;">hybrids.</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">(If anyone knows the names of these ferns, please contact me <br />via e-mail, by going to my profile, in the margin)</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Next time I'll cross the stream and head over to those cliffs<br />in the background.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">A combination of <i>Yule Fern</i> fronds and <br /><i>Beechdrop </i>flower stalks! Beautiful!</span></td></tr>
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<a href="http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/grasses/plants/christmas_fern.htm" target="_blank">Click here</a> for information on Yule Ferns.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This species of <i>Juniper Moss</i> was everywhere, like tiny pine</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">trees, </span><span style="font-size: large;">adding </span><span style="font-size: large;">to the green part of the landscape.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Most people don't realize that some <i>mushrooms </i>grow<br />in the cold winter months.<br />Careful with wild mushrooms, though; there are poisonous<br />winter mushrooms, too! Do not ingest them, unless you are an<br />expert, or you have consulted an expert!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This <i>Marginal Woodfern</i> was growing everywhere. On the left</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">is a typical frond, at least a foot long, and on the right are some</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">sub-leaflets showing their sori (spore-bearing structures).</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/grasses/plants/mshield_fern.htm" target="_blank">Click here</a> for information on Marginal Woodferns</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">So much green a couple of days after a snowstorm.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sometimes taking a walk in the snowy woods is just what you </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">need to connect with your natural surroundings...to gain an</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">appreciation for the living things that you share Earth with.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Everything green that you saw is providing you with the air you</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">breathe and removing the CO</span>2<span style="font-size: large;"> from the air...not to mention</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">giving you the pleasure of their beauty!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://edleathers4.blogspot.com/2015/11/shanty-hollow-lake-ky.html" target="_blank">Click here</a> to see <i>Shanty Hollow</i> in November.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and <a href="http://edleathers6.blogspot.com/2015/05/shanty-hollow-lake.html" target="_blank">here</a> to see it in May,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and <a href="http://edleathers3.blogspot.com/2015/10/shanty-hollow-lake-ky.html" target="_blank">here</a> to see it in September.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">During the equinox, the position of the sun creates an optical illusion on the side of the pyramid. </span><span style="font-size: small;">Can you see a snake crawling down the pyramid? Its head is at the bottom and its body goes </span><span style="font-size: small;">up the side of the pyramid.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The ancient peoples called the winter solstice, </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><i>Midwinter</i>, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">not the first day of winter. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">And, they called the summer solstice, </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><i>Midsummer</i>, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">not the 1st day of summer. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The solstices and equinoxes are all <b><u>mid</u>-season</b> days.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Let me explain why.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Let's compare how the sun moves <u>during the day</u> to </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">how the sun moves <u>during the year</u>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Every day, the sun rises and <i><u>waxes</u></i>, getting higher </span><span style="font-size: large;">and higher, until <b>noon</b>, </span></span><span><span style="font-size: large;">and then it </span></span><span><span style="font-size: large;"><u>wanes</u>, descending toward the horizon.</span></span><br /><span><span style="font-size: large;">Most early </span></span><span><span style="font-size: large;">cultures </span></span><span><span style="font-size: large;">called <i>noon </i></span></span><b style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mid-day</span></b><b style="font-size: x-large; font-style: italic;"> </b><span style="font-size: large;">for that reason,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and <b>not </b>the <i>Beginning of the day</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The sun travels higher and higher in the sky until Mid-day,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">then travels lower and lower after Mid-day.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Now let's see how the sun moves across the sky </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u>during </u></span><span style="font-size: large;"><u>the year</u>, not during the day?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">With every day <u>until the Summer Solstice</u> the </span><span style="font-size: large;">sun's <u><b>path</b></u> <i>waxes </i>across the sky (its path gets higher and higher <u>with each day</u>).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">And </span><span style="font-size: large;">then <u>after </u>the solstice the sun's <u><b>path </b></u><i>wanes </i>(its path across</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the sky gets lower and lower <u>with each day</u>). </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The sun's path waxes, until it reaches a <b><u>mid-point</u></b>, then </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>its path wanes. </span><b><u>This mid-point is the summer solstice!</u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">That's why </span><span style="font-size: large;">the Summer Solstice was called <i><b>Midsummer</b></i> and</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><u>not </u>the first day of Summer, because the sun's path begins</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">to wane </span><span style="font-size: large;">the day after the solstice. We get less sunlight each day</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>after </b>the Summer Solstice...<u>after the mid-point</u>!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ancient people across the globe noticed 8 Landmark days;</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the solstices, the equinoxes, and the days in between.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">They called the Summer Solstice <i>Midsummer</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">for the reasons we mentioned, above.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-size: large;"><u style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">The Eight Landmarks of the Year</u></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">Summer Solstice - Midsummer - ~June 21st</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Cross-Quarter Day - ? - August 1st</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Fall Equinox - ? - ~Sep. 22nd/23rd</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Cross-Quarter Day - ? - Nov. 1st</span></div>
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Winter Solstice - ? - ~Dec. 21st</div>
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Cross-Quarter Day - ? - Feb. 1st</div>
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Spring Equinox -? - ~March 21st</div>
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Cross-Quarter Day - ? - May 1st<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What about the other 7 landmarks?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Let's name those now.</span><br />
<span style="color: #ffe599; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">After "Midsummer", the sun's <b><u>path </u></b>will <i>wane each day </i>(getting</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> lower and lower)</span><span style="font-size: large;"> until it reaches </span><span style="font-size: large;">the </span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>Winter </u></b>Solstice, another</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">mid-point. After the winter solstice its path <i>waxes each day</i>,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> again, giving us <b>more </b>sunlight with each day.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> That's </span><span style="font-size: large;">why the winter solstice was called </span><i style="font-size: x-large;"><u><b>Midw</b></u>inter, </i><span style="font-size: large;">and</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">not the first day of winter.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Makes sense, doesn't it? Many people across the world, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">including me, think so.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-size: large;"><u style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">The Eight Landmarks of the Year</u></span><br />
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Summer Solstice - Midsummer - ~June 21st</div>
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<span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Cross-Quarter Day - ? - August 1st</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Fall Equinox - ? - ~Sep. 22nd/23rd</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Cross-Quarter Day - ? - Nov. 1st</span></div>
<span style="color: #ffe599;"> Winter Solstice - Midwinter - ~Dec. 21st</span></div>
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Cross-Quarter Day - ? - Feb. 1st</span></div>
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Spring Equinox -? - ~March 21st</div>
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Cross-Quarter Day - ? - May 1st</div>
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<span><span style="font-size: large;">Following this logic, then the Equinoxes are <b>mid-season</b> days, too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><u style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;">The Eight Landmarks of the Year</u></span><br />
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Summer Solstice - Midsummer - June 21st<br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Cross-Quarter Day - ? - August 1st</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Fall Equinox - Midautumn - Sep. 22nd/23rd</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Cross-Quarter Day - ? - Nov. 1st</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
Winter Solstice - Midwinter - Dec. 21st</span></div>
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Cross-Quarter Day - ? - Feb. 1st</span></div>
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Spring Equinox -Midspring - March 21st</span></div>
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Cross-Quarter Day - ? - May 1st</span></div>
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<span>which are <u>the <b>first days of each season</b></u>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Notice that the <b><u>first days of each season</u></b> fall on cross-quarter days,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and the <i>solstices </i>and <i>equinoxes </i>are </span><span style="font-size: large;">all </span><b style="font-size: x-large;"><u>mid</u></b><span style="font-size: large;"><u>-seasonal days</u>.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">The eight landmark <u>dates</u> are </span><b style="font-size: x-large;">NOT</b><span style="font-size: large;"> arbitrary. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The <i>Summer Solstice</i> is always on June 21st (+ or - a day). </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">But, <b><u>what you <span>CALL</span><span style="color: #6aa84f;"> </span>the day is arbitrary</u></b>. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The ancient people called </span><span style="font-size: large;">the summer solstice <i>Midsummer</i>; many people <u>today </u>call it the</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>First day of Summer</i>. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">That is up to you, but it makes more sense to </span><span style="font-size: large;">call it <i>Midsummer.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ancient cultures </span>(Asian, European, Native American)<span style="font-size: large;"> developed traditions</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">T<b>his calendar has <u>nothing </u>to do with religion</b></span>.</div><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">It's simply a calendar set to the position of the earth relative to</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> the sun. </span><span style="font-size: large;">You <b><u>don't</u></b> have to be a Wiccan or a Pagan to believe this!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">I'm not religious, and I go by this calendar. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">It makes sense, because </span><span style="font-size: large;">it's based on <b>natural processes</b>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">The old cultures believed that <b>time </b>was a perpetual cycle of growth, death, and rebirth, all tied to the sun's movement across the sky. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This calendar was useful with respect to planting and harvesting crops and preparing for harsh living conditions during the cold, dark part of the year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The basic thing they noticed was that the <b>sun's <u>path </u>across the</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> sky changed <i>with each day</i></b>. From December to June the sun's</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> path gets higher and higher with each day.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>To prove this, go outside </span><span><u>around noon each day</u> </span><span>and notice that</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> the sun will be higher in the </span><span>sky with each day, from Dec. to June.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">They also noticed the amount of daylight increased with each day. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">In June </span>(~ the 21st)<span style="font-size: large;">, the sun's <u>path</u> seems to stop moving northward;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> then the sun's path moves lower and lower across the sky with</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> each day, until it's path stops again in December </span>(the 21st being its lowest point)<span style="font-size: large;">. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">The two days when the sun's path stops moving are called</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>solstices</i></b><span>, the </span><i>Summer Solstice</i><span> and the </span><i>Winter Solstice</i><span>.</span><span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">The two days between the solstices are called the <b><i>equinoxes</i></b>, and</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> the 4 days in between the solstices and the equinoxes </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">are called <b><i>cross-quarter days</i></b>.</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"> These were the <u><b>eight landmarks</b></u> that were marked on the early</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> calendar. Days that fall on the eight landmarks of the yearly</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> cycle mark the beginnings and middles of the four seasons.</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Winter Solstice - Midwinter - </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">~</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Dec. 21st</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Cross-Quarter Day - First day of Summer - May 1st</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now, let's discuss each season separately.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: large;">This landmark occurs when the sun's <b>arch </b>across the sky is at</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-size: large;"> its <b>highest</b>. </span><span style="font-size: large;">This day is called the <i>Summer Solstice</i>. </span><span style="font-size: large;">On this day</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"></span>(usually around June 21st)<span style="font-size: large;"> we get the <b>most sunlight</b> of any day. </span></span><span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: large;"><span><span>Where I live,</span></span><span> in Kentucky, we get about 16 hours of daylight and 8</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: large;"><span> hours of darkness on this day.</span><span> It's the </span><i>longest day</i><span> of the year.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: large;"> More direct sunlight means more heat,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: large;"> and that's why this part of the year is very hot. </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;">During <u>our </u>Summer (June) <i>we* </i>are tilted </span><span style="font-size: small;">toward the sun and </span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffa400;"><u style="font-size: x-large;">After</u><span style="font-size: large;"> the solstice, t</span><span style="font-size: large;">he sun's path across the sky gets lower and</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: large;"> lower with each day , because of the earth's tilt as we circle the</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: large;"> sun. This means that <u>after </u>the solstice the days get shorter.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: large;"> Less sunlight per day means less heat. Each day after the</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-size: large;"> solstice gets darker with <u>less heating</u>*. </span><span style="font-size: large;">This is why the solstice</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"> should </span></span><span><span style="font-size: large;">be </span></span><span><span style="font-size: large;">called the </span></span><u style="font-size: x-large;">middle</u><span style="font-size: large;"> of summer, </span><b style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Midsummer</i></b><span style="font-size: large;">, and </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><u style="font-size: x-large;">not</u><span style="font-size: large;"> the </span><span style="font-size: large;">first day </span><span style="font-size: large;">of summer. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: large;"><span>(Shakespeare's play, </span><i>A Midsummer Night's Dream,</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: large;"><span> takes place </span><span>around the summer solstice!)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">
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<span>*The earth absorbs the heat and radiates the heat for many weeks after the solstice; that's why it remains hot for some time after the solstice, eventhough we receive less sunlight.<span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span><br />
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Click <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwdB22opre0">here</a> to see a great video about Why We Have Seasons.<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2lP146KA5A">Earth Revolving around the Sun</a><br />
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<span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: large;"><span>The word <i>solstice* </i>literally means "sun-stop," </span><span>and refers to how</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: large;"> the arch/path of the sun gets higher with each day, then stops,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: large;"><span><span> and</span></span><span> then gets lower with each day. The day that it stops is</span><span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span><span style="font-size: large;">the <i>solstice</i>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;">* the name of our sun is <i>Sol</i>. Sol stops moving north!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-size: large;">Each season is about 12-13 weeks </span>(3 months)<span style="font-size: large;"> long. So, since the solstice</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"> is </span></span><span style="font-size: large;">Midsummer, then the first day of summer would be 6 weeks</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-size: large;"> before the solstice, </span><span>May 1st</span><span style="font-size: large;">, and the last day of summer would be 6</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-size: large;"> weeks after the solstice, </span><span>July 31st</span><span style="font-size: large;">. May 1st is a <i>cross-quarter</i> day. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: large;">It falls exactly between a solstice and an equinox. </span><br />
<span style="color: #ffe599;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">If you're interested in rituals, read this:</span><br />
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Click <a href="http://earthsky.org/human-world/why-do-we-celebrate-may-day">here</a> to read about <i>May Day</i> celebrations (1st day of Summer),<br />
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and <a href="http://www.goddessandgreenman.co.uk/lammas">here</a> for info about August 1st harvest rituals (end of Summer).<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As the earth moves around the sun we tilt further away from the</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> sun with each day, receiving less and less direct sunlight, and the</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> days get darker and cooler. There is a point ~12 weeks from the</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> solstice where the tilt of the earth is </span><span style="font-size: large;">90 degrees from the sun's</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> axis. The sun's arch is directly over the equator.</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">This day is called the <i>Autumnal Equinox</i> (mid-autumn). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Fall equinox occurs <u>around</u> September 22nd or 23rd, and on</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> this day the amount of daylight equals the amount of night, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of night. The ancient people</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> realized this was the halfway point between the summer solstice</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> and the winter solstice. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Since all seasons last about 12 weeks, then 6 weeks before</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Midautumn (the equinox) would be the first day of Autumn </span>(Aug. 1st)<span style="font-size: large;">, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">and 6 weeks after the equinox would be the last day of Autumn </span>(Oct. 31st)<span style="font-size: large;">. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Many cultures celebrated the equinox </span>(~ Sept 21st) <span style="font-size: large;">with rituals of</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> thanksgiving for the fruits of the earth. It was one of the</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">The last day of Autumn (Oct. 31st) was </span><span style="font-size: large;">the time to celebrate the</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> lives of those who </span><span style="font-size: large;">have passed on. Today, we call it Halloween.</span><br />
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<span><span style="font-size: large;">With each day after the autumn equinox we receive less and less direct</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: large;"> sunlight and therefore less daylight and less heat. The days are</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: large;"> getting very cold and very dark, until the darkest day arrives, the</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>longest night</b> of the year, the <i>Winter Solstice</i>. </span> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #351c75;">(In Kentucky we get about 8 hours of daylight; the rest of the day is in darkness)</span><br /></span>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-size: large;">The sun's arch in the sky is at its lowest point and <u>after this day</u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: large;"> the arch will get higher with each day. So, because of that reason</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: large;"> this day was considered by the ancients to be the <u>middle</u> of</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: large;"> Winter, or <i style="font-weight: bold;">Midwinter,</i> and <u>not</u> the first day of Winter.<i style="font-weight: bold;"> </i>After this</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: large;"> day the sun <i>returns</i>, bringing more light and more warmth...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-size: large;">a great day to celebrate!! Here comes the sun!!</span><br />
<span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: large;">Because the sun's light and heat have been diminishing, and now begin to return, I call the winter solstice New Year's Day! A new year begins with the return of the sun's light and heat!!!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: large;">The Natural Calendar begins here on the winter solstice.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Remember, each season is about 12 weeks long, so 6 weeks before</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Midwinter </i></b>would be the first day of Winter </span>(Nov. 1st)<span style="font-size: large;">, and 6 weeks</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"> after solstice would be the last day of Winter </span>(Jan. 31st)<span style="font-size: large;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span><span style="font-size: large;">The ancients celebrated the Winter Solstice </span>(Dec. 21st)<span style="font-size: large;">, because</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></div><div>
<span><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: large;">it symbolizes the <u>rebirth of the sun</u> and reminded them of </span></span></div><div>
<span><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: large;">the fertile seasons ahead. Here comes the sun!!!!</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><span><span>Most cultures called this the most</span></span><span> important time of celebration.</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: x-large;"> </span></div><div>
<span><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: large;">Sacrifices, feasting, and gift giving were common elements of </span></span></div><div>
<span><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: large;">Midwinter (solstice) activities. They used to make wreaths of</span></span></div><div>
<span><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: large;"> evergreen branches and decorate their homes with evergreen</span></span></div><div>
<span><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: large;"> plants, such as holly, ivy, mistletoe, and spruce, and even</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #351c75;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"> bringing</span></span><span><span style="font-size: large;"> in cut trees and decorating them.</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></div><div>
<span style="color: #351c75; font-size: large;">To me (and the ancients) this is the beginning of the New Year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Vernal Equinox</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">With each day <u>after</u> the <i>Winter Solstice</i> the days get longer (more</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"> sunlight) and warmer, until the number of daylight hours equals</span></div><div><span><span style="font-size: large;"> the number of night hours. This is the </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">Vernal Equinox</i><span style="font-size: large;"> (</span><i style="font-size: x-large;">verne </i><span style="font-size: large;">=</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"> green). </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">The plants are turning green and making flowers. The animals are</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"> producing young (chickens, rabbits, sheep, cattle). This is the</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"> time of rebirth, of <b>great fertility</b>. Again, time to celebrate!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Easter</i> evolved from this ancient equinox tradition. By the way,</span></div><div>
<span style="font-size: large;">do you know how the date for Easter is determined!</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Remember, it's a </span><span style="font-size: large;">different date each year!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Six weeks before the equinox </span><span style="font-size: large;">would be the first day of </span></div><div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Spring </span>(Feb. 1st/2nd)<span style="font-size: large;">, and 6 weeks after the equinox would be the </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">last day of Spring </span>(April 30th)<span style="font-size: large;">, Summer's eve.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On the first day of Spring </span>(Feb 1st)<span style="font-size: large;"> the ancients celebrated the first</span></div><div>
<span style="font-size: large;"> stirrings of Spring. They were pleased because of the anticipation of <b>new life</b>! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">With each day after the equinox we receive more and more direct</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"> sunlight and therefore more daylight and more heat. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">We're moving toward Summer; the cycle begins again. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Japanese and other Asian cultures lived by</span><span style="font-size: large;"> a</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"> similar</span><span style="font-size: large;"> calendar, which used the word</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><b style="font-size: x-large;"><i>yang </i></b><span style="font-size: large;">to describe light and</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"> heat and the word</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><b style="font-size: x-large;"><i>yin </i></b><span style="font-size: large;">to describe darkness and cold. They also</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"> called the solstices and equinoxes the</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><u style="font-size: x-large;">middle</u><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">of the seasons, </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">not the first day of the seasons. Many still prefer this calendar,</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"> which helps them with agricultural practices. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">The Summer Solstice </span>(Jun. 21st, Mid-Summer)<span style="font-size: large;"> is the heart of Summer and</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"> would have the most yang (light). The Winter Solstice is the</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"> deepest part of Winter (Midwinter) and has the most yin(darkness). </span></div><div>Notice that the solstices and equinoxes are mid-season days and not the first day of the season.<span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">As the days move away from Midwinter, yin </span>(darkness)<span style="font-size: large;"> diminishes</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"> and yang </span>(light)<span style="font-size: large;"> increases. </span><span style="font-size: large;">This calendar </span><span style="font-size: large;">is explained nicely, <a href="https://hokku.wordpress.com/tag/wheel-of-the-year/" target="_blank">here, </a> in David Coomler's website. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">So, join me and the ancients by calling </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">the </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">Winter Solstice</span><i style="font-size: xx-large;"> Midwinter</i><span style="font-size: x-large;">, and</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">the Summer Solstice </span><i style="font-size: xx-large;">Midsummer,</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Today was a great day for a late winter walk...</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">sunny, but below <i>freezing</i></span><span style="font-size: large;">. I visited one of my favorite places, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Beaman Park, in NW Nashville. </span><br />5911 Old Hickory Blvd. 37015</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">To get there from I-65 (north of Nashville), take Old Hickory and head west past I-24. <br />
Go a few yards past Eatons Creek Rd and you will see the sign (photo below). <br />
Take a right at the sign and park near the Visitors' Center.</div>
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<a href="http://www.nashville.gov/Portals/0/SiteContent/Parks/docs/outdoor/Hiking%20Trails/MapBeamanPark.pdf" target="_blank">Click here for Information about Beaman Park</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The map, below, was taken from the website Nashville.gov</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Begin your walk <u>behind</u> the Visitors' Center on the </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Sedge Hill Trail.</i> This first trail is a little over a half mile.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is the reason they call this the <i>Sedge Hill Trail. </i><br /><i>Sedges </i>line the trail just about all the way to the creek. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">They don't look like much now but in the Spring </span><br />
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<a href="http://edleathers5.blogspot.com/2015/03/beaman-park-in-late-march.html" style="font-size: medium;" target="_blank">Click here to see the Sedges with stamen/pistils in Spring</a></td></tr>
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<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: large;">A slow descent;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: large;">Observing all life forms</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: large;">Along the way.</span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Robins </i>are so common around here that people tend</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo taken from the Cornell website, below.<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/American_Robin/id" target="_blank">Information on Robins (plus their songs)</a></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">After a good walk downhill you will see the bridge <br />that spans <i>Henry Creek. </i>Today, the creek was almost frozen</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> solid. </span><span style="font-size: large;">You can see the </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">Creekside Trail </i><span style="font-size: large;">on the other side. </span></td></tr>
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<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Henry Creek Bridge;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Slowly walking over</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The frozen creek.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Turkey_Vulture/id" target="_blank">Information on Turkey Vultures</a></span></div>
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<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">A turkey vulture;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Gliding over our heads</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Without one flap.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">On the other side of the bridge you will see this sign. <br />Turn right to walk the <i>Creekside Trail.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Soon you will see a short side trail that leads to <i>Henry Creek.</i></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You can see the bridge that you just crossed, in the background. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Stay at this spot for awhile and just observe and listen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you're a <i>birder</i>, this is a great place to be. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you see a bird the size of a Robin scratching in the fallen</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Stop, look, and listen!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Hermit_Thrush/id" target="_blank">Information on Hermit Thrushes</a></span></td></tr>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">A solitary bird</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Scratching the leaves;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">A hermit thrush.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">There are evergreen <i>Yule Ferns</i> everywhere. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The name comes from the fact that people used to decorate their homes around <br /></span>the winter solstice, <span style="font-size: small;">using these ferns or making wreaths from the fronds. <br /></span>aka christmas fern<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/grasses/plants/christmas_fern.htm" target="_blank">Information on Yule Ferns</a></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">As you can see, moss grows all year long. Pretty hardy plants.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://bryophytes.science.oregonstate.edu/page3.htm" target="_blank">Basic Information on Mosses</a></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">At the top of each stalk are the spore cases of the moss plants. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Mosses don't make flowers and seeds. The male plant makes sperm and the female makes eggs.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">After the egg gets fertilized the zygote will grow into the stalk/sporecase, called the sporophyte.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">These sporophytes release spores, which grow into male and female plants. </span></td></tr>
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<i style="font-size: x-large;">Snags </i>(standing dead trees)<span style="font-size: large;"> play a very important role in</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today, I saw a little <i>Titmouse </i></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">. They are one of the birds that you will </span><span style="font-size: large;">most </span><span style="font-size: large;">likely hear and see on your walks. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo taken from the Cornell website, below.</td></tr>
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<a href="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Tufted_Titmouse/id" target="_blank">Click here for Info on the Tufted Titmouse, and hear its call.</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A titmouse sticking</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Its head out of a hole;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">A cold morning walk.<br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A neat looking fungus, whose mycelium is slowly decomposing</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The next thing you'll run across is this smaller bridge,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">which spans a small stream that empties into <i>Henry Creek.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I walked up the stream to get this photo.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">You can see the trail heading off into the background to the left. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I turned around and got this shot of this beautiful waterfall <br />turned into ice. The water was flowing under the ice. </span></td></tr>
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One of my favorite sounds...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">the sound of a little waterfall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://edleathers4.blogspot.com/2015/01/winter-birds-part-1.html" target="_blank">Click here for Info about Winter Birds</a></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">You can see the bridge that we just crossed; the stream is on the</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You might have noticed that some trees tend to hang onto</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">some of their </span><span style="font-size: large;">dead leaves throughout the Winter, until</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">is the <i>Beech </i>tree </span>(below)<span style="font-size: large;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Beech trees are very distinctive and can be identified </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">2. the dead, tan, leaves, remain through winter, and</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Another small </span><span style="font-size: small;">(frozen)</span><span style="font-size: large;"> stream emptying </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another bird that you will always hear when you're walking in</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">the woods is the Carolina Chickadee. It has a variety of calls that</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">you can hear by going to <a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Carolina_Chickadee/sounds" target="_blank">this site</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo taken from the Cornell website, below.<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Carolina_Chickadee/id" target="_blank">For Information and to hear a Chickadee, click here.</a></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Crossvine </i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">This vine will produce some </span><span style="font-size: large;">beautiful </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">trumpet-like flowers in the summer.</span><br />
<i><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=BICA" target="_blank">Information on Crossvines</a></span></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Getting very close to the <i>Creekside Trailhead</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Sit here, look around and listen.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ahead on the left is an area with many <i>red cedar</i> trees.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Besides the Beech tree, here is another conspicuous tree </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">easily identified in the Winter, the <i>Red Cedar</i> tree. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Red cedars</i> are evergreen trees and are known as a</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">pioneer species. This means that they are the first species to</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">populate a barren area. With time the deciduous trees grow</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">above the cedars, shading them out and killing them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That's why you do not see cedars in a mature forest in TN. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you do see them, they'd probably be near a creek or at</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the edge of the woods where there is plenty of sunlight.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.arborday.org/trees/treeguide/treedetail.cfm?itemID=913" target="_blank">Information on Red Cedars</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Trailhead is about 100 yards beyond this point. <br />There is a parking lot there, if you choose to park there next time. From the Nature Center to this trailhead is about 1 mile. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">(see the map) </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You can take a little break here. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">From here you can continue up the hill to the <i>Ridge Trail</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and circle back down to the bridge spanning <i>Henry Creek,</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">or you can just walk back the way you came.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I turned around at this point and headed back</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">the way I came, on the <i>Creekside Trail</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Looking back the way I came. Heading back </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">to the bridge and up the hill to the <i>Visitors' Center</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What a great hike! It was cold, but</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">once you start walking you warm up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just make sure you dress appropriately</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">for walks like these.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>Hope you get a chance to visit </span><span>Beaman Park. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wildflowers will be coming out soon!!</span><br />
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<a href="http://edleathers5.blogspot.com/2015_03_01_archive.html" target="_blank">Click here to see Beaman Park in the Spring.</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">So, get out and explore!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Taka_Shimono_http://www.blogger.com/profile/17741884584159268957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762856059404767947.post-5849487748668082372024-01-07T07:30:00.000-06:002024-01-10T11:15:08.210-06:00Turnhole Bend @ Mammoth Cave Park<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Turnhole Bend Overlook </span><span style="font-size: medium;">@ Mammoth Cave Park</span></td></tr>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Turnhole Bend</i> is the name given to the section of</span><span style="font-size: large;"> the </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Green River</span><span style="font-size: large;"> that forms an <i>oxbow</i>; it bends in the shape of </span><span style="font-size: large;">a "U."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> This trail</span><span style="font-size: large;"> takes you by a very large sinkhole on your way </span><span style="font-size: large;">to </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">the </span><span style="font-size: large;">Green River Valley Overlook.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Below the overlook is one of the region's largest springs, where</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">many of the subterranean streams empties into the river.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">On the second half of your walk you'll see another very large</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">sinkhole. This area is filled with sinkholes...a karst landscape.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.nps.gov/maca/planyourvisit/trails.htm" target="_blank">Information on Mammoth Cave Hiking Trails</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://treadintroddentrails.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/mammoth-cave-trail-map.jpg" target="_blank">Map of Mammoth Cave Park</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Click the map </span>(above)<span style="font-size: large;">, and look just west of the Visitors' Center </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and you'll see </span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Turnhole Bend</i>. The sign </span>(photo below)<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">at the parking lot shows </span><span style="font-size: large;">you a trail map. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">At the top of the steps you can decide whether to turn right or left;<br />it's a loop trail. I turned right, walking into the woods toward<br />the Green River Overlook.<br /><br /><br /></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The most common fern you'll see is the <i>Yule Fern</i>.</span><br />
<span><span style="font-size: large;">It's an evergreen plant that people used to decorate <br />their homes with during Christmas time. </span><br />This fern is also called <i style="font-size: medium;">Christmas Fern</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=poac4" target="_blank">Information on Yule Ferns</a></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Soon you'll come upon this bench </span><span style="font-size: small;">(the 1st Exhibit on the map)</span><span style="font-size: large;">.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">From the bench area you can look into the <br />Green River Valley.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">Can you see the river, below?</span></td></tr>
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<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">A rock tumbling</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">Almost reaches the river;</span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">Turnhole Bend.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Very close to the bench was this fern that <br />I <b>think </b>is a </span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Marginal Woodfern</i>.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><span>This is one of the pinnae of the above fern.</span><br /></span>
<span>If someone disagrees on the ID, then please <br />e-mail me </span><span>the info (see my profile).</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is a <b>hybrid</b> of <i>Ebony Spleenwort </i>and another species of fern.</span></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">As you continue on your walk you'll be able to see an extremely </span><span style="font-size: large;">large sinkhole ahead.</span></td></tr>
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<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Before you get to the large sinkhole, you'll see this small cave.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This cave entrance was just off the trail to the left. <br />The plants still had dew on them.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-size: large;">Dew on moss sporophytes.</span><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Sporophytes are plants that make spores.</span></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-size: large;">Dew clinging</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-size: large;">To the moss stems;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-size: large;">Nature's beads.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Heard a <i>Carolina Wren</i> calling insanely.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo taken from the Cornell website, below.<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Carolina_Wren/id">Information on the Carolina Wren</a></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Take a few minutes to read the sign and view this sight...<br />a very large sinkhole.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This fern is a hybrid with one of the parents being <br /><i>Mountain Spleenwort</i> </span><span style="font-size: small;">(Asplenium montanum)</span><span style="font-size: large;"> growing on<br />the side of the sinkhole.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">As you continue on your walk observe the area that you just came<br />from. The Valley Overlook is just beyond the rocks in the<br />background. At the bottom of the hill to the left is the<br />Green River (out of view).</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is called </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">Turkeytail Fungus</i><span style="font-size: large;">.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">When trees die and fall many species of fungi will consume it...<br />decompose it and return much of the nutrients back to the soil<br />for future plants to use. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Trametes versicolor </i>- appropriately named.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.mushroomexpert.com/trametes_versicolor.html">Information on Turkeytail Fungus</a></span></td></tr>
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<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;">Turkeytail fungus;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;">Colorful decomposers</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;">On a fallen tree.</span></div><div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">A look back at the area I just walked through. <br />The sinkhole is to the right, hidden from view.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ahead to the left is the Turnhole Bend Overlook <br /></span><span style="font-size: small;">(the second Exhibit on the map)</span><span style="font-size: large;">. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">From this overlook you can see the Green River and how the<br />valley curves into the background. You're at the base of the<br />oxbow...the bend in the river.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This sign is posted at the overlook. Take plenty of time to read</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">After your break continue up the hill on<br />your walk around the loop. You're at the<br />"top" of the trail </span><span style="font-size: small;">(see map below)</span><span style="font-size: large;">.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">At the bottom of the cliff was the <i>Turnhole Bend Spring</i>, which<br />is where the subterranean stream comes out of the cave system.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">This is directly below the overlook.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Your looking east with this view...the bottom of the bend.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The spring is in the background to the right (out of view).</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Looking NW at the Green River as it meanders around the corner.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is an <i>Adiantum </i>species of fern.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Which kind, I do not know.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: large;">A carpet of low growing plants, called </span><i><span style="font-size: large;">Ground Cedar </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: small;">(Lycopodium digitatum?)</span></i><span style="font-size: large;">...a kind of Clubmoss that</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">does not produce</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> flowers </span><span style="font-size: large;">nor seeds.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is as big as an individual <i>Ground Cedar</i> gets.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: large;">They reproduce by producing club-shaped<br />strobili (spore cases)...thus the name, clubmoss,<br /></span>which is misleading, because it's not a moss plant; it's more closely related to ferns.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: large;">A neat looking set of fronds of </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">Black-stemmed Spleenwort<br /></i><span style="font-size: large;">(<i>Asplenium resiliens</i>), at least that's what I think it is.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">What I like about this genus of ferns is that they tend to make hybrids, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">which result in interesting looking fronds.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: large;">I was surprised to see this <i>Holly </i>tree<br />growing all by itself.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">At this intersection you want to turn left. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">An old road is on the right, which goes to Brownsville Road.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Growing on a boulder with mosses and liverworts was this</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">beautiful little <i>Adiantum </i>fern; I think this one is</span><br />
<span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><i><span style="font-size: large;">Venus' Hair Fern </span>(aka Southern Maidenhair Fern)<span style="font-size: large;">, </span></i><span style="font-size: large;">but</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">I could be mistaken. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">(compare the fern size with that penny)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Notice the zigzag pattern of the leaf axis and the veins in the<br />leaflets. Very fragile looking. I think it's beautiful.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=ADCA">Information on Venus (Southern) Maidenhair Fern</a></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Growing very close to the fern were these mosses and liverworts.<br />Look how tiny this liverwort species is!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.backyardnature.net/liverwrt.htm">Some good Info on Liverworts</a></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This fungus</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span>(<i>Annulohypoxylon thouarsianum</i>)</span><span style="font-size: large;">, <br />is </span><span style="font-size: large;">reproducing...making more of its species.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Its mycelia is under the bark <br />consuming the wood.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Walking Fern</i> </span><span>(<i>Asplenium rhizophyllum</i>)</span><span style="font-size: large;"> growing on a boulder </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">with mosses. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">When the tip of the frond touches substrate, new fronds are<br />formed...a great example of asexual reproduction.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">A <i>Hydnum </i>species...a <i>toothed </i>White Shelf Fungus.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">A look under the cap reveals the "teeth."</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ran across a population of a species of "Bushy" Mosses.<br />The fern is Ebony Spleenwort.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is a different view of the large sinkhole <br />that I passed earlier.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Heard the ringing call of </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">a Golden Crowned Kinglet!!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo taken from the Cornell website, below.<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Golden-crowned_Kinglet/id">Information on this Kinglet</a></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Just about every boulder has a species of <i>Lichen </i>growing all<br />over it. They break down the rock surface pulling the minerals<br />into their cells. Mosses and lichens create a thin surface of soil</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ahead is the Overlook for the other (second) large sinkhole.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Take some time to read this sign and enjoy the view.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">(this 2nd sinkhole is the 3rd Exhibit on your map)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Notice the <i>Lobed Spleenwort</i> (ferns) </span><span style="font-size: small;"><i>(Asplenium penatifidum)</i></span><span style="font-size: large;"> growing in the crevices of the bluff of this 2nd sinkhole.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Close-up of one of the <i>Lobed Spleenworts</i></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Looking at the second large sinkhole from its south side</span><span style="font-size: large;">.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">As you round the corner you'll see the parking lot.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I feel extremely lucky to live so near so many trails that wind</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">through karst landscapes with caves, sinkholes and all the different</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">species of plants, animals, and fungi that call this area home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Take some time to get out and explore </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">your surroundings.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">A <i>Sundog</i>!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">On my way home I saw one of my favorite phenomena...</span><span style="font-size: small;">a </span><i style="font-size: medium;">Sundog </i><span style="font-size: small;">(a </span><i style="font-size: medium;">parhelion</i><span style="font-size: small;">)!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">You can see it on the right side of the photo (the sun is </span><span style="font-size: small;">on the left). </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.livescience.com/26402-sundogs.html">Information on Sundogs</a></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The eastside sinkhole in Cedar Sink.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">The person at the bottom of the photo shows you how large this one sinkhole is.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Cedar Sink</i> is a large depression in the earth</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">caused by the collapse of the top surface of a cave, creating an</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">extremely large sinkhole ("sink"). This trail takes you to the</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">sink, where you can climb down into it and observe an unusual</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">ecosystem, with its ferns, lichens, mushrooms, and birds</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and you'll also see </span><span style="font-size: large;">a small segment of an underground river </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">that is exposed </span><span style="font-size: large;">because of erosion. </span><br />
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<a href="http://www.nps.gov/maca/index.htm" target="_blank">Click here for Information about Mammoth Cave Park</a><br />
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<a href="https://treadintroddentrails.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/mammoth-cave-trail-map.jpg" target="_blank">Map of Mammoth Cave Park</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Drive to the south end of Mammoth Cave Park (see map)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and park at this lot </span><span style="font-size: large;">to begin your hike. </span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh50yDGrtxzVR96d2rvP5fH5UPmPga5xksCFVq9z5Cj7rAoBVvkxoD0pQPkUQSASl48ddLVs-tP4z6TaSK5ScFgFi8L0c0OwAMp-B5H9ZGYRQXRrcTm6VK7HOj-Kfjbge7xJLZl-T5HJew/s1600/DSC_0001.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh50yDGrtxzVR96d2rvP5fH5UPmPga5xksCFVq9z5Cj7rAoBVvkxoD0pQPkUQSASl48ddLVs-tP4z6TaSK5ScFgFi8L0c0OwAMp-B5H9ZGYRQXRrcTm6VK7HOj-Kfjbge7xJLZl-T5HJew/s640/DSC_0001.JPG" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The Trailhead for the Cedar Sink Trail.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This was on the right side of the trail...a neat looking<br />waxy-cap mushroom living in the moss.</span></td></tr>
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<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fcff01; font-size: large;">Late winter;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fcff01; font-size: large;">Hidden in the moss</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fcff01; font-size: large;">A yellow mushroom.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That yellow mushroom is a great example of a </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">beautiful mushroom</span><span style="font-size: large;"> thriving </span><span style="font-size: large;">in the cold of winter.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The first bridge on the trail.</span></td></tr>
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<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">When hiking you should stop often and just look around you...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">don't walk fast on these kind of forays. Walk slowly and observe</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">what's around you. Look, listen, smell and feel! I don't advise</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">tasting, unless you are an expert ecologist! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">More winter mushrooms...lots of fungi, today.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.first-nature.com/fungi/~id-guide.php" target="_blank">Fungi Photo Gallery from First Nature</a></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The leaves of a wild orchid, Downy Rattlesnake Plantain</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>(Goodyera pubescens) </i></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Kentucky is home to many wild orchids, the majority of which<br />grow on the ground and not in trees.<br />This will produce a beautiful raceme of white flowers <br />in the summer. </span><span>A summer wild orchid!! </span><br />
<span>The green leaves thrive in winter, storing energy-compounds, </span><br />
<span>which will be used to produce the flowers. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/flower/downy-rattlesnake-plantain#lboxg-4" target="_blank">Click here for Information</a></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">A dry stream where water flows after a rain.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>Some trees are easy to identify in the winter,</span><span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>such as this </span><span><i>Beech </i></span><span>tree. It's one of the few trees that</span><span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>hang on to its dead leaves </span><span>throughout the winter. </span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Notice the tan <b>leaves hanging onto</b> the <i>Beech</i>.<br />Notice also the <b>smooth bark</b> and <br />the <b>spear-like leaf buds</b>,<br />unique to this species </span><span style="font-size: small;">(photo below)</span><span style="font-size: large;">.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Spear-like leaf bud of a <i>Beech </i>tree</span></td></tr>
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<a href="https://www.walterreeves.com/landscaping/ornamental-trees/beech-tree-leaves-in-winter/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Information on Beech Trees</span></a></div>
<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-size: large;">They cling to the trees</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-size: large;">Throughout the winter;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-size: large;">The tan beech leaves.</span></div><div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">What a beautiful landscape!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Great lighting at this time of day and year.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In early January the path of the sun across the day sky</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">remains low, because the earth is tilted away from the sun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">With each day the sun's path will get higher and higher</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">providing more sunlight and warmth with each day! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I, and others, call the solstice <i>New Year's Day</i>, because it is</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">the beginning of a new solar cycle.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The sun's path across the day sky will continue to get higher</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>and higher with each day, for six months, until the summer solstice, which is when its </span><span>path stops moving northward and begins </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">to move southward, again. That will be the longest day of the year!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">A stick with <i>Lichens </i>and <i>Jelly Fungi</i> growing on it,<br />lying in a bed of <i>Moss</i>.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.mushroomexpert.com/jellies.html" target="_blank">Information on Jelly Fungi</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Who would think that a jelly fungus would be growing</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">in late winter! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>The moss is, also, a hardy species, but it is a plant and not a fungus. Both species </span><span>can survive the harshest of winters! </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div>
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<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The sun reaches perihelion at this time of the year! This is the earth's</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">closest approach to the sun. Since the earth's orbit is ellipical (non-</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">circular) there is a point when we are closest to the sun, and that is now. So, if that's true, then why don't we experience hotter days?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(the answer can be found below)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Heard and saw a couple of <i>Tufted Titmice</i> in the trees.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo taken from the Cornell website, below.<br />
<a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Tufted_Titmouse/id" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Information on the Titmouse</span></a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Moss </i>and bi-colored <i>Mushrooms </i>on a fallen tree.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #04ff00;">Mosses and m</span><span style="color: #04ff00;">ushrooms </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #04ff00; font-size: large;">All along the shaded trail;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #04ff00; font-size: large;">A winter hike.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">When you get here you have reached the Loop Trail </span><span style="font-size: small;">(1/2 mile)</span><span style="font-size: large;">.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">You can go either clockwise or counter-clockwise...your choice.<br />I went left, toward the West Side Staircase.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">(see the map of Cedar Sink at the top of this post)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">You can see the edge of the gigantic sinkhole in the background.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The staircase on the West Side of Cedar Sink.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's as if you're descending into another world! </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The view from the staircase, looking east.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">At the bottom of the staircase is this Overlook. This is the small<br />portion of an underground river that's exposed for us to see.<br />It returns underground to the right of this overlook.</span></td></tr>
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<a href="http://www.howitworksdaily.com/subterranean-rivers/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Information on Subterranean Rivers</span></a></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Oyster mushrooms </span><i><span style="font-size: small;">(Pleurotus ostreatus)</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></i><span style="font-size: large;">maybe</span><i style="font-size: x-large;">.</i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Aren't you amazed at all the different kinds of fungi</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;">This is the northside sinkhole within </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">the larger Cedar Sink. </span><span style="font-size: large;">You're looking northward</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">at the bluffs in the background.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Looking southward within Cedar Sink.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Saw a <i>Brown Creeper</i> moving up </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">the trunk of a <i>Tulip Tree</i>.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo taken from the Cornell website, below.<br />
<a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Brown_Creeper/id" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Information on Brown Creepers</span></a></td></tr>
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<a href="http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?kempercode=a878" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Information on the Tulip Trees (Liriodendron tulipifera)</span></a></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">At the base of a tree was this population of </span><i><span style="font-size: large;">Walking Ferns</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: small;">(Asplenium rhizophyllus) </span></i><span style="font-size: large;">growing with the Mosses.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The backlit fronds reveal the sori (sporecases).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/grasses/plants/walking_fern.htm" target="_blank">Information on Walking Ferns</a></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The view from the north side of the sink, looking southward.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The leaves of <i>Hepatica acutiloba</i>, which will<br />produce some beautiful flowers in the Spring.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/woodland/plants/hepatica.htm" target="_blank">Information on Hepaticas</a></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Leaves of </span><span style="font-size: large; font-style: italic;">Crossvine </span><span style="font-size: small;"><i>(Bignonia capreolata)</i><br />This will produce some neat looking trumpet-shaped flowers<br />in early Summer.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=BICA" target="_blank">Information on Crossvine</a></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">On the left is a <i>Puttyroot Orchid</i> leaf </span><span style="font-size: small;"><i> (Aplectrum hyemale)</i></span><span style="font-size: large;"> and<br />on the right are the fronds of a fern called<br /><i>Ebony Spleenwort</i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><i> (Asplenium platyneuron)</i></span><span style="font-size: large;">.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">(This fern may be a hybrid between two species.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Puttyroot produces flowers in the spring, but </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">All ferns are flowerless and seedless...</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">they reproduce using spores, sperm, and eggs.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This Wisconsin couple </span>(photo below)<span style="font-size: large;"> kindly agreed to let me take</span></div>
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(Thanks! Hope you two had a great hike!)</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is the sinkhole on the east side. When you compare the size<br />of the people to the sinkhole you get an idea of how large this<br />sink is! <u>This</u> sinkhole is within the even larger Cedar Sink!</span></td></tr>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Yule Fern </span><span style="font-size: small;">(Polystichum acrostichoides)</span></i><span style="font-size: large;">...aka <i>christmas fern</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/grasses/plants/christmas_fern.htm" target="_blank">Click here for Information</a></span></td></tr>
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<span><a href="https://www.first-nature.com/fungi/galerina-marginata.php" target="_blank">Deadly Galerina</a> </span><span>(G. marginata)</span><span>. </span><br />
<span>Do not eat wild mushrooms unless you are </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">an </span><i><span style="font-size: large;">Earth Star</span><span style="font-size: small;"> (Astraues hygrometricus)</span><span style="font-size: large;">. </span></i><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span>Similar to puffballs, except this species has its outer layer<br />pulled back. </span><span>When raindrops or animals touch this, <br /></span><span>its spores explode out, blowing in the wind.<br /><br /></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">When you get to the top of the South Side Staircase turn around<br />and take a look at the gigantic sinkhole one more time.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">As you come out of the sink follow the trail<br />to the Overlook we saw, earlier. You can see<br />it in the background.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The view from the South Side Overlook. You can see the bluffs<br />on the left (west side) and the exposed river below. Remember,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>This will produce tiny, nodding, white flowers in June/July.</span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://uswildflowers.com/detail.php?SName=Chimaphila%20maculata" target="_blank">Information on Spotted Wintergreen</a></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is one place that everyone should see sometime in their life...</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">a cave with its ceiling/roof removed. It's a fairly easy hike, but</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">some of you may have difficulty with the staircases. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is one of the best places for Spring Wildflowers, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">so make plans to come here </span><span style="font-size: large;">in April and May!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Hope you get a chance to get out </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and <b>explore </b>this unique ecosystem.</span><br />
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<a href="http://edleathers5.blogspot.com/2015/04/cedar-sink-at-mammoth-cave-national-park.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Click here to see the wildflowers of Cedar Sink in April</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>If you're ever near Crossville, TN, take a break </span><span>and walk one of </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">the trails at Cumberland Mountain State Park. </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">On this Winter Solstice, I decided to walk </span><span style="font-size: large;">on the <i>Pioneer Trail</i>,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">south of the bridge.</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I parked in the lot next to the lodge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Every year I try to take a good walk on the Winter Solstice, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">remembering that this is the day with the longest amount of darkness.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">After today the arch (path) of the sun gets higher with each day,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">bringing more direct sunlight which means more warmth!!</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">This was a great time for celebration for ancient cultures and, also,<br /> for me as well as other people who observe sun/earth events. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I consider this to be New Year's Day, because this is the beginning<br />of a new solar cycle.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span>See my blog post below for information about the seasons.</span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://edleathers4.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-wheel-of-year.html" target="_blank">Click here for Info on The Solar Calendar</a></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For this walk I parked at the lodge </span><span style="font-size: small;">(see fork/knife icon on map)</span><span style="font-size: large;"> and <br />walked along the lake past the <i>Overlook</i> and to the suspension<br /> bridge. I then crossed the bridge and walked back along <br />the other side back to the lodge. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">This is only a small portion of the Pioneer Loop.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span><a href="http://tnstateparks.com/assets/pdf/additional-content/cmsp_trail_map.pdf" target="_blank">Click here to see a map of all the trails.</a></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/beaver/" target="_blank">Information on Beavers</a></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">like this female, below.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Northern_Cardinal/id" target="_blank">Information on Cardinals</a></span></td></tr>
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<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mini-pine trees,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Covered in snow and ice;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Juniper moss.</span></div><div><br /><br /><br /><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Believe it or not, mushrooms were growing on this frigid day,<br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">like this one, covered in ice!<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span><br /><br />Looking like <br />Fungal ice sculptures;<br /> Frozen mushrooms!<br /><br /><br /><br />What you may not know is that the main body (mycelium) <br />of the fungus </span><span>lies within the </span><span>fallen tree, decomposing the wood.<br /> When it </span><span>decides to reproduce, it creates this structure </span><span>that </span><span>we<br /> call a </span><span>mushroom. The mycelium is there, year round,<br />absorbing its nutrients.</span></span></td></tr>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I heard the soft ringing sound </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">of a golden-crowned kinglet.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE8YBd7LBtaNxB7MJ58y58XGEscvG2TvcOxW9_r5C3XWGwATwNr48oyGotK-zWW0YDQ-dMAlgBgJ1F4utpjlbCW4IS-L4CAIr_DAgKUljfxcYZEBVY6H6LpsyMKazRIOjpngf76LKbN04/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="720" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE8YBd7LBtaNxB7MJ58y58XGEscvG2TvcOxW9_r5C3XWGwATwNr48oyGotK-zWW0YDQ-dMAlgBgJ1F4utpjlbCW4IS-L4CAIr_DAgKUljfxcYZEBVY6H6LpsyMKazRIOjpngf76LKbN04/" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The photo above and information about </span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">this species came from <a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Golden-crowned_Kinglet/id" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">There are many conifers here at Cumberland State Park. A conifer is a tree that bears cones. These cones are produced instead of flowers, but they perform the same function...reproduction. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <i>White Pine </i>trees possess very large cones and dominate the conifers, here. Another trait of white pines is that their needles are in bundles of 5. One needle for each letter in "w-h-i-t-e." </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: large;">At this point I could have continued straight </span><span style="font-size: small;">(see map)</span><span style="font-size: large;">,<br />but I decided to turn left and cross the suspension bridge. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I then turned left and headed back toward the lodge,<br />but I will be on the other side of the lake </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>(see <a href="https://tnstateparks.com/assets/pdf/additional-content/cmsp_trail_map.pdf" target="_blank">map</a>)</span><span>. </span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Tulip</i> <i>trees</i> are everywhere. They are also called <i>tulip poplars</i> and</span><span style="font-size: xx-large;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>yellow poplars</i>, although they are <u>not</u> poplars. They're called</span><span style="font-size: xx-large;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">tulip trees because their flowers and their seedpods both </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">look</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">like tulips. </span></div>
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If you look up at the limbs of the <i>Tulip</i> <i>Tree</i>,<br />
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<span><a href="http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?kempercode=a878" target="_blank">Information on Tulip Poplar</a></span></span></div>
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<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Moss grows during all the seasons, in Kentucky. You can see their</span><div><span style="font-size: large;">gametophytes here, with ice stalactites extending down below them.<br /></span>
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<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;">This is a fantastically beautiful walk, with the hemlock trees and the</div></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">rhododendrons growing side-by-side. It's a magical landscape!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I'll have to come back when the rhododendrons <br />are blooming in June. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.rhodoland.nl/leaves_and_buds.en.htm" target="_blank">Information on Rhododendrons</a></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">More hardy mushrooms next to some moss,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">neither of which make flowers. </span><br />
<span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Mosses are nonvascular plants, not fungi. They are different<br /> from plants that you are </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span>usually familiar with, in that they do not<br /> have vessels (xylem and phloem), and they reproduce </span><span>by<br />spreading spores, not seeds. <br />They are different from fungi (the mushrooms) in that they</span><br />
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<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Just look at this magical sight!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Hemlocks </i>are another common tree, here. They produce cones,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">as do the pines, but the hemlock cones are only about one inch</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">long, while pine cones are many inches long.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Here's an uncommon fern called <i>Climbing Fern</i>.</span><br />
<span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Ferns are different from most other plants in that they do not make<br /> seeds. They reproduce by releasing spores. These spores will grow<br /> into a different looking plant, which is still a Climbing Fern but it's<br /> the gametophyte of this species, meaning it produces sperm and<br /> eggs (gametes). </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span>The gametes will fuse, forming the sporophyte of<br /> the species, which is shown in the photo.<br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/species/lygodium/palmatum/" target="_blank">Information on Climbing Ferns</a> </span></td></tr>
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<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">There are some very neat little ferns growing on that boulder ahead!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is <i>Mountain Spleenwort</i> (another fern).<br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Its fronds are one inch long or less.<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/122055-Asplenium-montanum" target="_blank">Information on Mountain Spleenworts</a> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">A small waterfall...one of my favorite sounds. <br />The lake is right behind me.</span></td></tr>
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<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">It was very quiet here...something that I cherish greatly!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I like the reflections of the trees in the pond.</span></td></tr>
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<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Going across this short bridge tells you that you</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> are</span><span> close to the lodge. Stop and take a minute to</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> just look around you. Listen and </span><span>smell the trees</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> and stream and watch the birds.</span></div></div><div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you're lucky, like I was, you might see a </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Hermit Thrush </i></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">scratching for food in the leaves.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Hermit_Thrush/id" target="_blank">Information on Hermit Thrushes</a></div>
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<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now you can see the lodge just across the pond.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> You'll have to </span><span>cross the bridge to get to your car.</span></span></div></div><div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Continue to the right until you reach the road;<br />then you can cross the bridge, returning to your starting point. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>The next time I come here I'll walk the trails </span><span>north of the bridge </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>and might have to </span><span>stay at the lodge. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span>If you dress appropriately you can stay warm on</span><br />
<span>a cold day like today. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Get out and explore your natural habitat!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div>
</div></div></div>Taka_Shimono_http://www.blogger.com/profile/17741884584159268957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762856059404767947.post-44940854233487905402023-12-12T05:30:00.000-06:002023-12-13T03:15:03.756-06:00Barren River Lake<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">This park is located just south of Glasgow,KY, and has </span><span style="font-size: large;">a beautiful</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> hiking trail running through the golf course and through the woods</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> toward the lake. We went there in search of a bald eagle, so we</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> took the paved Bike Trail, to Peter's Creek trail (see map),</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">which lead to a bluff with a view of the lake. </span><br />
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<a href="https://parks.ky.gov/lucas/parks/resort/barren-river-lake-state-resort-park" target="_blank">Click here for Info about Barren River Lake</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The lodge is at the bottom left on the map. Refer to the map at any time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So far, we've spotted chickadees, titmice, wrens, cardinals,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Dark-eyed_Junco/id" target="_blank">Click here for Info about Juncos</a></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Kai spotted a <i>Golden-crowned Kinglet</i> in this tree!</span></td></tr>
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from Bernt Heinrich's book <i>Winter World</i>.</div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The lake in winter;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">A golden-crowned kinglet</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Flitting above us!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">We heard a strange sound that sounded like loud wooden bugles. <br />We looked up and saw some <i>Sandhill Cranes</i>!!!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: large;">Three of the five <i>Sandhill Cranes</i> that we saw!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FcCJIpsH0U" target="_blank">Click here to see a video of the Sandhill Cranes</a></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">These cranes stay at the lake throughout the winter!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The cranes bugling</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">As they fly overhead;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">A winter resident.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I will have to explore this quiet creek, next time. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lichen and Small White Bracket Fungi</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Website for mycophiles: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVP-MWBmKG_wxepwZahh8eQ" target="_blank">click here.</a></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">If you look at the map </span><span style="font-size: small;">(below)</span><span style="font-size: large;">, this trailhead is above fairway #11. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It leads to an area overlooking the lake. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">They do not make seeds.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/grasses/plants/fan_clubmoss.htm" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Click here for Info</span></a></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Follow the sign and turn right, past the large <i>Beech </i>tree<i>.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://leafyplace.com/beech-trees/" target="_blank">Info about Beech Trees</a></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">There was a good mixture of pines, cedars, <br />and deciduous trees, here, with many </span><br />
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from David George Haskell's book, The Forest Unseen</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_tnLwJG1HnfhIWQLYLF3XMKAqGGH8pK5FUCuqyuHbXJJYtHLjWLfOqtJzHdM_Bbh3VoM4TrafeQ5Jp_WpLHTzKTSbtjwyDCLDVk-lvMCF-8OHVelySu6-N3eSOJZ1EMSDta3RhoP5MdU/s1600/DSC_0036_edited.jpg"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_tnLwJG1HnfhIWQLYLF3XMKAqGGH8pK5FUCuqyuHbXJJYtHLjWLfOqtJzHdM_Bbh3VoM4TrafeQ5Jp_WpLHTzKTSbtjwyDCLDVk-lvMCF-8OHVelySu6-N3eSOJZ1EMSDta3RhoP5MdU/s1600/DSC_0036_edited.jpg" width="640" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">Finally, we can see Barren River Lake. If you look at the map, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">this is at the very top of the <i>Peter's Creek</i> <i>Trail</i>.</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br /><div> <a href="https://parks.ky.gov/sites/default/files/listing_documents/3ae060a51b61b3828c415647413cbd2b_BarrenRiver2019.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Map of the Park</span></a></div><div><br style="font-size: medium;" /></div><br />We were there for only a minute when Kai spotted a Bald Eagle!!!</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">We saw two Bald Eagles and heard another! I didn't get a good photo; can you s</span><span style="font-size: large;">ee the eagle flying away from us in the <u>above</u> photo?</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is a great trail with a variety of tree species...sycamores, oaks, hickories, maples, tulip poplars, sweetgums.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="https://blog.tentree.com/10-interesting-facts-about-the-oak-tree/" target="_blank">Click here</a> for info about <i>Oak </i>trees.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It's an odd plant that doesn't have chlorophyll and has become <br />dependent on the nutrients of the Beech tree, provided by fungi. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/woodland/plants/beechdrops.htm" target="_blank">Info about Beechdrops</a> </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Read a post on <a href="http://edleathers4.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-wheel-of-year.html" target="_blank">The Solar Calendar</a>, which explains the seasons</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">as I, and the ancients, observe them. To me, the Winter Solstice </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">You can see that at this time of the year the angle <br />of the sun at noon is very low, and that angle gets lower<br />each day,until <i>Mid-Winter</i>, the solstice.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.rd.com/list/winter-solstice-traditions/" target="_blank">Info about Mid-Winter, the Solstice</a> </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This was a fantastic day. We saw what </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">we came here to see, the bald eagle, and also</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">were pleased to see and hear the sandhill cranes!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you're in the area stop and see this State Park.</span></div>
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<span>forest for a couple of hours. It's a beautiful place.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Get out and explore </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">your natural surroundings!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">After you've learned the 10 Winter Sparrows </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">study these </span><span style="font-size: large;"> 10 song birds, which are also </span><i><span style="font-size: large;">Passeriformes,</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: medium;">or (Perching Birds)</span></i><i><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span> </i><span style="font-size: large;">but are </span><u style="font-size: x-large;">not</u><span style="font-size: large;"> sparrows. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">All of these birds live in KY and TN during winter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Check out the websites found just above the photos.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">They are a great source of </span><span style="font-size: large;">information and y</span><span style="font-size: large;">ou can </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">also hear the </span><span style="font-size: large;">song/calls each makes</span><span style="font-size: large;">. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Carolina Wren </span> <span>4.7-5.5 inches</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Carolina_Chickadee/id"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Click here for Info about the Chickadee</span></a></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Carolina Chickadee</span> <span>3.9-4.7 inches</span><br />
<span>- gray back; black cap and throat</span><br />
<span>- white cheek; pale grayish nape</span><br />
<span>- pale gray below, often with buffy sides</span></span></td></tr>
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<a href="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Tufted_Titmouse/id"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Click here for Info about the Titmouse</span></a></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Tufted Titmouse </span> <span>5.5-6.3 inches</span><br />
<span>- gray upperparts and crest</span><br />
<span>- pale underparts & face; orangish flanks</span><br />
<span>- black forehead and beak</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Red-breasted_Nuthatch/id"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Info about the Red-breasted Nuthatch</span></a></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Red-breasted Nuthatch</span> <span>4.3 inches</span><br />
<span>- black and white striped head</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>White-breasted Nuthatch </span> <span>5.1-5.5 inches</span><br />
<span>- bluish gray back and wings</span><br />
<span>- white face, breast, and belly</span><br />
<span>- lower belly and under tail often chestnut</span><br />
<span>- long upturned black and gray bill</span></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/House_Finch/id"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Info about the House Finch</span></a></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>House Finch</span> <span>5.1-5.5 inches</span><br />
<span><b>- orangish red on forehead, throat, and breast</b></span><br />
<span>- brown back and wings</span><br />
<span>- thick brown streaks on flanks</span><br />
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<span>- black mask, lined with white on cheek and forehead</span><br />
<span>- brown head and chest</span><br />
<span>- yellow wash across belly</span><br />
<span>- white undertail with yellow tail tip</span></span></td></tr>
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<span>- gray upperparts with dark streaks</span><br />
<span>- black mask with white eyebrow and eye crescent</span><br />
<span>- black and yellow patch on sides </span><br />
<span>- bright yellow crown and rump</span></span></td></tr>
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<a href="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Golden-crowned_Kinglet/id"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Info about the Golden-crowned Kinglet</span></a></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Golden-crowned Kinglet </span><span>Tiny 3.1-4.3 inches</span><br />
<span><b>- bright yellow crown stripe bordered by black</b></span><br />
<span>- mostly gray with olive-green wings and tail</span><br />
<span>- white eyebrow; tiny thin black bill</span></span></td></tr>
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<span>- olive-green overall, brightest on wings</span><br />
<span><b>- pale ring around dark eye</b></span><br />
<span>- male may raise its bright red crest</span><br />
<span>- tiny thin black bill</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now, focus on these 10 birds for many days,</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">until you </span><span style="font-size: large;">have learned them.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">ake a quiz</span></b><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b>over the Part 3 winter birds. </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Write the names down on a sheet of paper as a reference.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Simply click one of the </span><span style="font-size: large;">photos and all the photos will appear </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">at the bottom of the page. Click any photo in any order </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">and </span><span style="font-size: large;">try to ID that bird.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Go over these birds </span><span style="font-size: large;">very often until you know all of them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Then go over all 30 of the common winter birds.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">I have not included <b>all</b> the birds found here in the winter, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">but this is a good start. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/browse/taxonomy#" target="_blank">Here</a> is that Cornell site again! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">It's a great way to learn birds. </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">Get out with your binoculars and </span><span style="font-size: large;">try to spot some of these</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">birds </span><span style="font-size: large;">and identify them. It's a great </span><span style="font-size: large;">activity that </span><span style="font-size: large;">gets you</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> outdoors </span><span style="font-size: large;">and gets you moving, </span><span style="font-size: large;">something </span><span style="font-size: large;">that alot of people</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> don't </span><span style="font-size: large;">get much of these days.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Explore your natural surroundings!!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">With this post you will be able to ID 10 more winter birds.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">These are all <b>sparrows</b>, </span><span style="font-size: large;">which are</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">Passeriformes</i><span style="font-size: large;">, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">or perching birds. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Remember that, with birds, the female tends to be a less colorful,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> less showy bird, which helps when incubating eggs </span><span style="font-size: large;">in the nest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There you can find general characteristics, behavior, </span><span style="font-size: large;">as well as a life history and possibly a video. You </span><span style="font-size: large;">can also listen to typical songs and calls of each bird. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">These 10 winter birds are all <i>Sparrows</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Fox_Sparrow/id">Click here for Info about </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Fox Sparrow </span><span style="font-size: small;"> about 7 inches; smaller than a Towhee</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">- reddish overall with gray on face </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">- heavily streaked breast</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">- large clump of spotting at center</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Song_Sparrow/id">Click here for Info </a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Song_Sparrow/id">about the Song Sparrow.</a> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: large;">Song Sparrow </span><span style="font-size: small;"> 4.7 - 6.7 inches</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">- breast has course brown streaks, spot in middle</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">- dark malar (moustache)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Savannah_Sparrow/id">Click here for Info about </a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Savannah_Sparrow/id">the Savannah Sparrow</a> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: large;">Savannah Sparrow </span><span style="font-size: small;"> 4.3 - 5.9 inches</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">- yellow patch in front of eye, small pink bill</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">- dark streaks on chest</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Notice how the three birds <u>above</u> all have chest streaks </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Swamp_Sparrow/id">Info about the Swamp Sparrow</a> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Swamp Sparrow </span> <span style="font-size: small;">4.7 - 5.5 inches</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">- unstriped gray chest</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">- reddish wings, whitish throat and belly</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">- gray face and sides of neck</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/American_Tree_Sparrow/id">Info about the American Tree Sparrow</a> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">American Tree Sparrow </span> <span style="font-size: small;">5.5 inches</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">- mostly pale gray</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">- bright rusty crown and eye stripe</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Field_Sparrow/id">Info about the Field Sparrow</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Field Sparrow </span> <span style="font-size: small;">4.7 - 5.9 inches</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">- distinct white eye-ring</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">- rufous crown and line behind eye</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">- brown back with black streaks</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">- 2 weak wingbars</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/White-throated_Sparrow/id">Info about the </a></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">White-throated Sparrow </span> <span style="font-size: small;">6.3 - 7.1 inches</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">- <b>white throat</b> and head stripes</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">- yellow lores (in front of eye)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">- gray face and bill; unstreaked breast</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">- streaked brown back, wings and tail</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/White-crowned_Sparrow/id">Info about the White-crowned Sparrow</a> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">White-crowned Sparrow </span> <span style="font-size: small;">5.9 - 6.3 inches</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">- bold black and white head stripes</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">- brown and gray streaked back</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">- <b>gray throat</b>, breast and belly</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>- yellowish bill</b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Eastern_Towhee/id">Info about the Eastern Towhee</a> </span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6yTn0JTMTMe04KS-TJbcfcgCOVUiJUBm_yrQohZq9-TSia_pAivHbd5wLMljF5S8DucI4R3b5vWT05BaeDML3uLKd2uZ0SiQUPPahFMEAmyK-AvYAj6liZiDcdoX7bIc8NLg8U0S3B1g/s1600/eastern+towhee.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6yTn0JTMTMe04KS-TJbcfcgCOVUiJUBm_yrQohZq9-TSia_pAivHbd5wLMljF5S8DucI4R3b5vWT05BaeDML3uLKd2uZ0SiQUPPahFMEAmyK-AvYAj6liZiDcdoX7bIc8NLg8U0S3B1g/s1600/eastern+towhee.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Eastern Towhee </span> <span style="font-size: small;">6.8 - 8.2 inches</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">- black hood and white belly; </span><span style="font-size: small;"> rufous sides</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">- long black tail with white under outer sides</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Dark-eyed_Junco/id">Info about the Dark-eyed Junco</a> </span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy48sHIVvH4UBgbGQ8lOgEJ85IwwaeWKCY9WnC1QWzsYuLVvUOT7aPHWaMxjGvx4U7QGsB9NEmPTONg5ZTJdSqGxxpv1nRrOeOt6NYx7Cp-HZZvyovdsgXL1zE3LWHVWUYhMcGHzkLAF8/s1600/dark-eyed+junco.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy48sHIVvH4UBgbGQ8lOgEJ85IwwaeWKCY9WnC1QWzsYuLVvUOT7aPHWaMxjGvx4U7QGsB9NEmPTONg5ZTJdSqGxxpv1nRrOeOt6NYx7Cp-HZZvyovdsgXL1zE3LWHVWUYhMcGHzkLAF8/s1600/dark-eyed+junco.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Dark-eyed Junco </span> <span style="font-size: small;">5.5 - 6.3 inches</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">- dark gray with white belly</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">- pink bill</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Now, </span><b style="font-size: xx-large;">take a quiz</b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> over the 10 Winter Sparrows. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Write the names down on a sheet of paper as a reference.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Simply click one of the </span><span style="font-size: large;">photos and all the photos will appear </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">at the bottom of the page. Click any photo in any order and</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">try to ID that bird.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Go over these birds </span><span style="font-size: large;">very often until you know all of them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">They have very distinctive songs, too, which you can hear</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After you learn these you can attempt to learn </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the next set of birds </span><span style="font-size: large;">on my next post. </span><br />
<a href="http://edleathers4.blogspot.com/2014/12/winter-birds-song-birds-non-sparrows.html"><span style="font-size: large;">Click here to go to Winter Birds Part 3</span></a><br />
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Taka_Shimono_http://www.blogger.com/profile/17741884584159268957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762856059404767947.post-83814397984815693882023-12-03T04:30:00.000-06:002023-12-03T05:06:09.713-06:00Winter Birds - Part 1<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">There are many beautiful colorful<u> </u>animals</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">that can be found in the KY/TN area throughout the Winter. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">They are the Winter Birds! </span><br />
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<a href="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/browse_tax.aspx" target="_blank">Click here to see the Cornell Birds Website. </a></div>
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(The <i>Perching Birds</i> are at the bottom of the list of bird groups)</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are many birds that hang around KY/TN during the </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">cold months of winter. You can learn 30 of them very easily.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">This post and the next 2 posts contain photos and information </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is Part 1. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Learn these 10 birds first and then </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Be sure to click the site <b>above each photo</b> to get some great</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">information about that bird, including their songs.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The photos were taken from the allaboutbirds site,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">unless otherwise specified.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Northern_Cardinal/id" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Click here for Info about the Cardinal</span></a></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Northern Cardinal </span><span> 8.3 - 9.1 inches<br />- Bright red overall with red crest<br />- Black mask and throat<br />- Large thick red bill</span></span></td></tr>
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<a href="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/American_Robin/id" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Click here for Info about the Robin</span></a></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_Thk0d9p2zVk2MCmHjWnXT4NBCAPQeLZD4xoCMfnrCKvthJ_Zg6Uy0PcbbFkS7ge77TpEmAazYqh8twXIqKdw-gy2Lq7QOZsf6H173KIvl99A6HYSLhBbXA5aU55wnNdmTXKSrvJMGhA/s1600/2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_Thk0d9p2zVk2MCmHjWnXT4NBCAPQeLZD4xoCMfnrCKvthJ_Zg6Uy0PcbbFkS7ge77TpEmAazYqh8twXIqKdw-gy2Lq7QOZsf6H173KIvl99A6HYSLhBbXA5aU55wnNdmTXKSrvJMGhA/s1600/2.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>American Robin</span> <span>7.9 - 11 inches<br />- Gray upperparts, darker head<br />- Rusty red breasts and sides<br />- Yellow bill, white eye crescents</span></span></td></tr>
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<a href="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Blue_Jay/id" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Info about the Blue Jay</span></a></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzPyTo7WSFMTgABhNRRxBFKS_FTHNId51knAjxfXamROHSVL7PZHSTwXYg9rTjSi5xDAjFkQ9WUw5VZikpyyaR7Boqf2H29EOS9pt1xWdElem0CFoFwjII-mD1EFFEGjNskwMJKmUTTtA/s1600/3.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzPyTo7WSFMTgABhNRRxBFKS_FTHNId51knAjxfXamROHSVL7PZHSTwXYg9rTjSi5xDAjFkQ9WUw5VZikpyyaR7Boqf2H29EOS9pt1xWdElem0CFoFwjII-mD1EFFEGjNskwMJKmUTTtA/s1600/3.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Blue Jay </span> <span> 9.8 - 11.8 inches<br />- Bright blue crest, back, and wings<br />- Black collar and bill<br />- Gray and white underparts</span></span></td></tr>
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<a href="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Eastern_Bluebird/id" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Info about the Bluebird</span></a></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Eastern Bluebird </span> <span>6.3 - 8.3 inches<br />- Deep blue above <br />- Rusty on throat and breast</span></span></td></tr>
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<a href="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/European_Starling/id" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Info about the Starling</span></a></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Starling </span> <span> 8 - 9 inches<br />- Glossy black to dark brown overall<br />- White spots all over<br />- Yellow bill</span></span></td></tr>
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<a href="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Mourning_Dove/id" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Info about the Mourning Dove</span></a></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Mourning Dove </span> <span>9 - 13.4 inches<br />- Brown to buffy-tan all over<br />- Black spots on wings<br />- Long, streamlined distinctive shape</span></span></td></tr>
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<a href="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Northern_Mockingbird/id" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Info about the Mockingbird</span></a></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Mockingbird </span> <span> 8.3 - 10.2 inches<br />- Overall gray-brown, paler on breast/belly<br />- Two white wingbars on each wing<br />- Long black tail, white outer tail feathers</span></span></td></tr>
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<a href="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/American_Crow/id" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Info about the Crow</span></a></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Crow </span> <span>15.7 - 20.9 inches<br />- All black, even legs and bill<br />- Thick neck with a heavy straight bill</span></span></td></tr>
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<a href="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Eastern_Meadowlark/id" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Info about the Eastern Meadowlark</span></a></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Eastern Meadowlark </span> <span> 7.5 - 10.2 inches<br />- Pale brown marked with black<br />- Bright yellow underparts<br />- Black V across chest</span></span></td></tr>
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<a href="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Hermit_Thrush/id" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Info about the Hermit Thrush</span></a></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Hermit Thrush </span> <span> 5.5 - 7.1 inches<br />- Chubby with rich brown head and back<br />- Reddish tail<br />- Pale underparts with distint spots on throat and <br />smudged spots on breast<br />- Complete white eye ring</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Go over these 10 birds many times and learn them </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">before continuing on to the next set of birds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> When you think you're ready, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>then take a quiz</b> over these birds. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Write the names down on a sheet of paper as a reference.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Simply click one of the </span><span style="font-size: large;">photos and all the photos</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">will appear </span><span style="font-size: large;">at the bottom of the page. </span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Click any photo in any order and </span><span style="font-size: large;">try to ID that bird.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Go over these birds </span><span style="font-size: large;">very often until you know all of them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When you think you're ready to learn more birds then </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://edleathers4.blogspot.com/2014/12/winter-birds-kytn.html">click here to see Winter Birds Part 2.</a> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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Taka_Shimono_http://www.blogger.com/profile/17741884584159268957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762856059404767947.post-55019856096359148262023-12-01T03:30:00.000-06:002023-12-01T21:04:01.510-06:00Winter Trees<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">There are a number of tree species </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">that tend to be easier to identify than others in <b>winter </b>because of their </span><span style="font-size: large;">unique characteristics, such as their seedpods, or the texture </span><span style="font-size: large;">of their bark. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Some are evergreen and can be identified by </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">their cones or leaves (needles). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Click <a href="http://leathersbiophotos.blogspot.com/2014/02/winter-trees.html" target="_blank">here </a>to learn about those <b>winter trees</b>.</span></div>
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Taka_Shimono_http://www.blogger.com/profile/17741884584159268957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762856059404767947.post-22739576885692992262023-11-26T08:30:00.000-06:002023-11-26T08:44:31.257-06:00Shelby Bottoms Greenway<div style="text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;">The Nature Center at Shelby Bottoms in Nashville, TN.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Unfortunately it was closed at this time, today. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">This natural area park in East Nashville</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">is a beautiful place to </span><span style="font-size: large;">take some time away from your busy </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">schedule and just slowly </span><span style="font-size: large;">walk and observe the landscape. </span><br /><div><span style="font-family: "Public Sans Light"; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />"With approximately three miles of Cumberland River frontage, </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Public Sans Light"; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">this area features bottomland hardwood forests, open fields, wetlands, and streams, providing excellent habitat for birds, </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Public Sans Light"; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">amphibians, deer and more. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Public Sans Light"; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">The greenway offers over 5 miles of paved ADA accessible trail </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Public Sans Light"; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">for hiking, biking, running, skating and wildlife watching </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Public Sans Light"; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">and over 5 miles of primitive trails for more passive activities </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Public Sans Light"; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">of walking, running and exploring nature."</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Click <a href="https://www.nashville.gov/departments/parks/nature-centers-and-natural-areas/shelby-bottoms-nature-center/shelby-bottoms-park" target="_blank">here</a> for information about Shelby Bottoms.<br /></span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Click <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Shelby+Bottoms+Nature+Center+%26+Greenway/@36.1741853,-86.7127406,17z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x88646851af34c923:0x4af91a73b9260817!8m2!3d36.1663178!4d-86.7247422" target="_blank">here</a> to get a better view of the map.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">We had a couple of hours to spare so we decided to explore</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">the south side of the <i>Shelby Bottoms Greenway</i> along </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">the river </span><span style="font-size: large;">and near the Observation Deck. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We began our walk at the </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">Nature Center </i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and headed east along the greenway.</span></div>
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Refer to the map (above) at any time. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Nature Center is at the bottom of the map. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you decide to come here be sure to bring your binoculars</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and a field guide. </span><span style="font-size: large;">There are </span><b style="font-size: x-large;">many </b><span style="font-size: large;">bird species here.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The view (railroad bridge) in front of the Nature Center. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is where Kai saw a strange bird called a <i>Woodcock</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo taken from the Cornell site.</span><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie1SK7rdPUk">Click here for a Video of a Woodcock</a></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is the first bridge you cross once you leave </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the Nature Center heading east toward the <i>River Overlook</i>.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The main trail of the <i>Shelby Bottoms Greenway </i>heading east. <br />The <i>Cumberland River</i> is to the right. </span></td></tr>
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<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Shelby Bottoms;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Walking at the river's edge --</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The heron hunting.</span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is the <i>River Overlook, </i></span><span style="font-size: large;">just after you pass the <i>Ecology Trail</i>.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The <i>River Overlook.</i> </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Soon after we left the <i>River Overlook</i> we turned left and</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">headed toward </span><span style="font-size: large;">the <i>Observation Deck</i>. </span>(see map)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The bridge next to the </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">Froggy Bottoms Trail</i><span style="font-size: large;">.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">Observation Deck </i><span style="font-size: large;">is just ahead. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Can you find the Red-shouldered Hawk?</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Froggy Bottoms;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The red-shouldered hawk perched --</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">A loud "<a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Red-shouldered_Hawk/sounds" target="_blank">kee-aah</a>."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo of this Red-shouldered Hawk taken from the Cornell site.</td></tr>
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<a href="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Red-shouldered_Hawk/id">Click here for Hawk info</a></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">You can see the <i>Observation Deck</i> in the background. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />We saw <b>many </b><i>Yellow-rumped Warblers</i> here. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo taken from the Cornell site, below.</td></tr>
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<a href="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Yellow-rumped_Warbler/id">Warbler Info</a></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Kai spotted a <i>Swamp Sparrow.</i> This area is sparrow heaven.<br />There is a pond off the <i>Ecology Trail</i> in the background. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo taken from the Cornell site, below.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Swamp_Sparrow/id">Swamp Sparrow Info</a><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ahead was the Observation Deck, a place where you can</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">take a break and just enjoy the surroundings.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">There are many birds species that love The Bottoms.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The <i>Observation Deck</i>. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Saw many birds, mostly sparrows, </span><span style="font-size: large;">from this neat structure. </span></td></tr>
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View from the Observation Deck. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We stayed at the <i>Deck </i>for quite awhile listening to</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Froggy Bottoms Trail</i>. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">After the bridge we turned left onto this <i>Froggy Bottoms Trail</i>. <br />We immediately heard/saw many <i>White-throated Sparrows</i><br />and spotted some <i>Towhees</i>. <br /><br /></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Photo taken from the Cornell site, below.</span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/White-throated_Sparrow/id">White-throated Sparrow Info</a><br /></span>
<br /><span style="font-size: large;">Click <a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/White-throated_Sparrow/sounds" target="_blank">here</a> to hear and watch a short video </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>of a white-throat, p</span><span>robably my favorite birdsong!!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Eastern Towhee</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo taken from the Cornell site, below.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Eastern_Towhee/id">Towhee Info</a><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This trail lead us to the main trail of the <i>Greenway</i>,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">which we walked on until we reached the <i>River Cane Trail</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">We walked down to the river and backtracked. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">On this trail we saw some <i>Cedar Waxwings</i>.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Cedar_Waxwing/id">Waxwing Info</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I wish we could've continued longer, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">but I had to leave, </span><span style="font-size: large;">so we headed back to the car. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you're a birder this is the #1 spot in the Nashville area.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Most people just walk the trails, enjoying the landscape. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Some people jog, others ride their bikes.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">It's great at this time of the year to walk along the river. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">So, get out and Explore </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">your natural surroundings!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
</div>Taka_Shimono_http://www.blogger.com/profile/17741884584159268957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762856059404767947.post-49449852895475741172023-11-11T05:00:00.000-06:002023-11-13T05:45:05.832-06:00Radnor Lake in Early Winter<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: large;">Radnor Lake in the south part of Nashville, TN</span></td></tr>
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<a href="http://radnorlake.org/" target="_blank">Click here for park information.</a></div>
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<a href="http://radnorlake.org/the-park/trail-map/" target="_blank">Map of park trails</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">This was a perfect day to walk and observe birds,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We started on the <i>Spillway Trail</i>, then took the <i>Lake Trail </i></span><span style="font-size: large;">to the road. </span><span style="font-size: large;">We then turned right and got on the <i>South Lake Trail</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We then got back on the road and headed back to the car. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">We began our walk at the Visitors' Center</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">on the west </span><span style="font-size: large;">side </span><span style="font-size: large;">of the lake. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">(There's another parking lot on the east side.)</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The trailhead of the </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">Spillway Trail</i><span style="font-size: large;">.</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<span style="font-size: large;">At this spot we saw the two kinds of kinglets,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">the golden-crowned and the ruby-crowned!!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Ruby-crowned_Kinglet/id" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">Info on the Ruby-Crowned Kinglet</span></a>.<br /><br /><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span><a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Golden-crowned_Kinglet/id" style="font-size: medium;" target="_blank">Info on the Golden-crowned Kinglet</a><br /><span>Both photos were taken from the Cornell websites.</span></span></td></tr>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">A slow winter hike;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">So many bird songs at</span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This sanctuary.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>At the end of the </span><i>Spillway Trail</i><span> we turned right and walked to</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">the house to observe the many species of birds. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">We turned right here to observe birds. Later, we took the <br /><i>Lake Trail</i>, which is in the background of this photo. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">We saw many <i>Yellow-rumped Warblers</i>.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span><span>Photo taken from the Cornell Site, below.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Yellow-rumped_Warbler/id" target="_blank">Click here</a> to get Information and <br />to <b><u>hear </u></b>a Yellow-rumped Warbler.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Kai hears a <i>Golden-crowned Kinglet</i>. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">So beautiful in front of the Caretakers' House!</span></td></tr>
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<span><span style="font-size: large;">heading toward </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">Ganier Ridge, <br />going</i><span style="font-size: large;"> around the lake, clockwise.</span><br />(I just realized that many people will not know what clockwise means, <br />since we rarely use analog clocks, today.)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The beautiful <i>Lake Trail</i>. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Many White Oak trees can be found on this trail.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/trees/plants/white_oak.html" target="_blank">Click here for info on White Oaks</a></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.theholidayspot.com/christmas/history/mistletoe.htm" target="_blank">Click here for info on Mistletoe</a></span></div>
<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Even though mistletoe is a plant, it is considered a <i>parasite</i> on the trees on which they grow. Their tissues grow into the tree, the host, and take nutrients from it...the definition of <i>parasitism, </i>a kind of <i>symbiosis</i>, by the way.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Mallards </i>on the north side of the lake. <br />They are very common in this area.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Mallard/id" target="_blank">Click here for Info about Mallards</a></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Walk slowly and every now and then just stop <br />and observe everything around you...plants, animals, and fungi. The colors will amaze you, and there are many different bird species singing around you. <br />The color of the leaves are stunning.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Some of the last <i>Snakeroot </i><br />flowers of the year. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/woodland/plants/wh_snakeroot.htm" target="_blank">Click here for Info</a></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="font-size: large;">Saw about 5 <i>White-tailed Deer</i>, so far.<br />Here's a huge buck walking behind a doe. </span><br />
<a href="http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/white-tailed-deer/" style="font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">Click here for Info</a><br /><br /><br /></span></td></tr>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-size: large;">White-tailed deer;</span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-size: large;">Browsing the leaves on this</span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-size: large;">Cool winter day.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Some <i>Shelf Fungi </i>decomposing </span><span style="font-size: large;">this downed tree.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.first-nature.com/fungi/~brackets.php" target="_blank">Shelf Fungi Website</a> </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One tree was filled with <i>Black Vultures</i>!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span>Photo taken from the Cornell website, below.</span><br />
<a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Black_Vulture/id" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Info about Black Vultures</span></a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One distinctive trait of the black vulture is the white coloring at the ends of their wings. With turkey vultures the white coloring extends all the way to the body.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">A deciduous forest like this has many Hickory trees.<br /><a href="http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/trees/plants/shbk_hickory.html" target="_blank">Click here for info on Shagbark Hickories</a></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">We turned right to continue on the </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">Lake Trail</i><span style="font-size: large;">.</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">One day we'll take the <i>Ganier Ridge Trail</i>.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The hill on the left is the base of the <i>Ganier </i>ridge.<br />The lake is to the right, barely in the photo. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lots of Sugar Maples grow in this area.<br />I think they are ideal for your front<br />or backyard landscape.<br /><a href="https://www.treehelp.com/sugar-maple/" target="_blank">Click here for info on Sugar Maples</a></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">We continued straight, toward the road.<br />The trail to the left goes to the east-side parking lot.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Some <i>Red-earred Sliders</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We also spotted <i>Gadwalls </i>in this pond.</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Gadwall/id" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Info about Gadwalls</span></a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Just off the road is the trailhead to<br />the <i>South Lake Trail</i>. </span><span style="font-size: small;">(see map)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">View of Radnor Lake from the <i>South Lake Trail</i>.</span><br />
<span><span>Kai saw another <i>Kinglet</i>, here.</span> </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">a hundred <i>Ring-necked Ducks</i> swimming together.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo taken from the Cornell site, below.<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Ring-necked_Duck/id" target="_blank">Info about Ring-necked Ducks</a></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">There are many Ash trees at Radnor Lake.<br /><a href="http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/trees/plants/white_ash.html" target="_blank">Click here for info on Ash Trees</a></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/trees/plants/am_beech.htm" target="_blank">Click here for info on American Beech trees</a></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I looked up and saw this!! Wow! <br />So stunning!! I absolutely love it here!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Saw a <i>Red-tailed Hawk</i> flying overhead.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Photo taken from the Cornell Site, below.</span><br /></span><a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Red-tailed_Hawk/id" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">Information about the Red-tailed Hawk</span></a></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I love this view of Radnor Lake...looking east. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">We continued straight to the Visitors' Center, which is<br />at the bottom of this hill.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lots of people, today, walking among the trees and birds...</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and this was a weekday. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Radnor Lake is one of the best walks in</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the Nashville area. It's supposed to be one of the </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">best places for <i>birding</i>. You can try the <i>Ganier Ridge Trail</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and the <i>South Cove Trail</i>, next time, if you want a longer walk. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you're ever in the southern </span><span style="font-size: large;">part of Nashville try to stop</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">here. Enjoy a relaxing nature walk in early winter. </span><br />
<span><br /><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: x-large;">Hope you can get out and explore </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: x-large;">your natural surroundings!!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span> Radnor Lake is beautiful in the <a href="http://edleathers5.blogspot.com/2015/03/radnor-lake-nashville-tn.html" target="_blank">Spring</a>!</span><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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</div></div>Taka_Shimono_http://www.blogger.com/profile/17741884584159268957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762856059404767947.post-54102814328534420122023-11-04T11:34:00.000-05:002023-11-13T05:42:20.737-06:00Shanty Hollow Lake, KY<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Shanty Hollow Lake, KY</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">About 15 miles north of Bowling Green, KY is this great walking</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">trail at the south end of Shanty Hollow Lake. This trail takes you</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">through a deciduous forest with a variety of tree and wildflower</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">species, as well as mushrooms and many different kinds of song </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">birds and insects. The geology is typical of this karst area...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">a cap of sandstone with limestone beneath. You'll see rocky bluffs,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">with unusual <i>honeycomb </i>formations, and if you look closely, you'll</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">see some unique plants tucked away in the crevices. At the end of </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">the trail is a 150 ft waterfall, where you can take a break and enjoy</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">the landscape.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.visitbgky.com/listings/shanty-hollow-lake/288/" target="_blank">Click here for Information/Directions.</a></span><br />
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<a href="https://www.bivy.com/browse/adventures/us/kentucky/shanty-hollow-lake-trail-6440965086642176" target="_blank">Trail Map</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">To the right of the parking lot is </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">the trailhead (photo below).</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is the beginning of the trail. <br />If you're in the parking lot facing the lake, <br />then the trailhead is to the right.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">With all the colorful leaves, on and off the trees, it feels like<br />you're walking through an Impressionist's painting.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Liverworts </i>growing on the cliffs.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">All plants have vessels, xylem and phloem, (that transport water and minerals and organic molecules, such as glucose) except for mosses and liverworts. These tiny plants don't have vessels, so their nutrients must diffuse from one cell to another. Liverworts are flat and tiny and live near water, so that they can soak-up water/nutrients like a sponge. </span><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Click <a href="https://www.backyardnature.net/liverwrt.htm" target="_blank">here </a>for information about liverworts.</span></div><div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Shanty Hollow Lake</i> will be to your left as you're walking. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">You can see the side trail that takes you down to the lake. If you have plenty of time and energy, take this side trail down to the lake and explore the area, <br />before you return to the main trail.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Spotted this white bird, a <a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Great_Egret" target="_blank">Great Egret</a>, <br />fishing, successfully.</span></td></tr>
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<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffe599; font-size: large;">Shanty Hollow Lake; </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffe599; font-size: large;">A great egret finds</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffe599; font-size: large;">A quiet spot.</span></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">On your right are large boulders on a hill leading to the<br />top of the sandstone bluffs.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Spotted this patch of green moss growing on one of the boulders. Remember, mosses and liverworts are plants that have no vessels, no flowers, no seeds...reproducing sexually, with sperm and eggs, and asexually, using spores. You can see spore cases at the top of the stalks, sticky upward. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Get off the trail and walk up to the bluffs and explore. Growing on the rocks are small rock-ferns, called spleenworts. <br /><br /></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I heard a <i>Golden Crowned Kinglet,</i> here. They are only about</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">3 inches long and have a ringing call.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNJLs_gAUKrlStnm7b9luKY_GH2CF3va1AIEqUMokDVKTCveqtY6lX_EWmS9NwzXcgoSZhrOzOn95nzFrtRla0oBhUnQgUZWOybYQeen_r-GnvD2nO0OocI5ytypaXBNz9BxDElLVlWws/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNJLs_gAUKrlStnm7b9luKY_GH2CF3va1AIEqUMokDVKTCveqtY6lX_EWmS9NwzXcgoSZhrOzOn95nzFrtRla0oBhUnQgUZWOybYQeen_r-GnvD2nO0OocI5ytypaXBNz9BxDElLVlWws/" width="320" /></a></div></div><span style="text-align: center;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Photo taken from the Cornell site, below.</span><br style="text-align: center;" /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">For information about this species, go </span><a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Golden-crowned_Kinglet" style="font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="font-size: x-large;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A soft ring</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">On a cold windy day;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">A kinglet calls!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Noticed alot of these wildflowers.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I think they're called <i>Small-flowered Alumroot</i>.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Very neat tiny flowers!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">On top of the bluff, looking down toward the trail.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I'd say I'm about 150 feet above the trail.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I don't know how I saw this <i>Inchworm</i>. It is perfectly </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">You can see the <i>honeycomb </i>pock marks in the cliff.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I walked down this side trail to get back on the main trail. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">You will see evergreen plants, like this fern, all along the trail.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I heard a <i>White-breasted Nuthatch</i>, here.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Photo taken from the Cornell site, below.<br /><a href="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/White-breasted_Nuthatch/id">Click here</a> for Information and to hear the Nuthatch.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mostly oaks, hickories, and maple trees.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Looks like the leaves of <a href="https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?kempercode=e692" target="_blank"><i>Allegheny Spurge</i>,</a> with some<br /><i><a href="https://wildadirondacks.org/adirondack-ferns-maidenhair-fern-adiantum-pedatum.html" target="_blank">Maidenhair Fern</a></i> </span><span style="font-size: small;">(top right)</span><span style="font-size: large;">.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The trail goes up and down several times; <br />just take yourtime and look/listen often.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Be sure to look down at the sides of the trail<br />often...never know what you'll see.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">A very bright yellow <a href="https://www.mushroomexpert.com/" target="_blank">mushroom</a> spotted right off the trail.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now, you're fairly high above the valley, walking along the<br />base of the bluffs. There are lots of tiny ferns growing in the</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Look at the bright green color of the moss growing </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is <i><a href="https://virginiawildflowers.org/2015/05/24/mountain-laurel/" target="_blank">Mountain Laurel</a></i>. In May it will have some of the most <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/142432893@N08/29328888516/in/photolist-N16RJM-LFGdKE" target="_blank">unique flowers</a> you'll ever see. I think they're beautiful! <br /><br /><br /></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">These are popular rock-climbing bluffs, I hear.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-size: large;">These </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">Yule Ferns</i><span style="font-size: large;"> are evergreen and can easily</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">be seen in the winter when most of the plants have</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">lost their leaves. </span><br />This fern also goes by the name, <a href="https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/fern/christmas-fern" target="_blank">Christmas Fern</a>. </span></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Noticed this very tiny fern, </span><i style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/species/asplenium/montanum/" target="_blank">Mountain Spleenwort</a>, </i><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">A species of <i>bushy moss</i>, one of the largest kinds of moss.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This looks like the male gametophytes of that moss species. Gametophytes produce the gametes, which are the sperm and the eggs.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">toward the mini-canyon, which also takes you to the falls. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">But, you will </span><span style="font-size: large;">have to jump over a section of the </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">canyon </i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This strange 30 ft long <i>canyon </i>leads to the waterfall, just ahead.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It's about a 10 ft drop/fall into the <i>canyon</i>.</span></td></tr>
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<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">It just amazes me how water can carve out a canyon like this, </span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">with lots of time, of course.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is a gorgeous image, to me! <br />Very impressionistic!</span></td></tr>
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<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #93c47d; font-size: x-large;">A colorful trail;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #93c47d; font-size: x-large;">Large green boulders covered</span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #93c47d; font-size: large;">With moss.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #93c47d; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #93c47d; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Along the <i>canyon </i>wall, growing with the moss, <br />is a fern species called <i>Walking Fern</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Walking ferns belong to the genus <i>Asplenium</i>, which consists of those rock ferns, the rock spleenworts, live Mountain Spleenwort and Ebony Spleenwort. People used to think that these plants had an effect on our spleens. <i>Wort </i>is old English for plant...thus, <i>spleenwort </i>or <i>plant that effects the spleen. </i>This has not been proven, however! </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Looking back at the <i>canyon </i>I just jumped over.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It's only 2-3 feet across, but a little slippery.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Some clubmosses </span><span style="font-size: small;">(<i>Lycopodium porophilum</i>)</span><span style="font-size: large;"> in the foreground and</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Unfortunately, these plants are called <i>clubmosses</i>; however, they are not true moss plants. Unlike mosses, these are vascular (have vessels), but, like mosses, they are seedless and do not make flowers.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This species of <i>Liverworts</i> is extremely tiny <br />(compare it to the penny).</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">It's a beautiful area, even though there's <br />not much water falling, today. <br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Click <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/140386565@N02/50874949488/in/photostream/lightbox/" target="_blank">here </a>to see the waterfall on a different day,<br />with much more water!</span><br /></span><br /><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Take a break here and enjoy the landscape. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you're near Bowling Green, take some time </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">to see this </span><span style="font-size: large;">fantastic </span><span style="font-size: large;">trail ! It's so beautiful at this</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">time of the year!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Explore your surroundings!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and <a href="http://edleathers4.blogspot.com/2016/01/winter-at-shanty-hollow-lake.html">here</a> to see it in the Winter snow.</span></div>
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</div>Taka_Shimono_http://www.blogger.com/profile/17741884584159268957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762856059404767947.post-81340652931243470982023-11-01T10:00:00.000-05:002023-11-13T05:40:19.765-06:00Bowie Nature Park, TN<div style="text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Lake Van</i> </span><span style="font-size: small;">named after Dr. Evangeline Bowie.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">November 1st: We celebrated this first day of Winter </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">at </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">Bowie Nature Park, in Fairview, TN,</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">a beautiful place to walk, with 700 acres of woods and lakes </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and 17 miles of walking trails. </span><span style="font-size: large;">It's open sunrise </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">To understand why I, and many others, call Nov. 1st </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">the first day of Winter</span><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://edleathers4.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-wheel-of-year.html">just click here.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We began our walk at Shelter #1 next to <i>Lake Van</i>,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and walked around the lake in a counter-clockwise</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">direction, until we reached the<i> Loblolly Loop Trail.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Refer to the map at any time. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The <i>Lake Van Trail</i>, which encircles the lake. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We're now on the opposite side of the lake from where we started our walk. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>The beginning of the <i>Loblolly Loop</i> trail (see map). </span><br />
<span>We came to this sign at the "top" of the lake.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This loop trail is divided into an upper trail and a lower trail. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We stayed on this trail until we reached </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the <i>Twin Lakes Loop</i> Trail. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The <i>Loblolly </i>Trail, named after all the tall <br /><i>loblolly </i>pines along the way. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The <i>Upper Lake </i>next to the <i>Loblolly</i> trail. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is where we heard and saw a <br /><i>Golden-crowned Kinglet</i>!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Kai also saw a <i>Ruby-crowned Kinglet</i>!!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/browse_tax/51/">Click here to get info about Kinglets. </a></span></td></tr>
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<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Kinglets are such beautiful, tiny birds...about the size of a </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">hummingbird. They are extremely hardy animals, surviving in severely harsh weather. That's what amazes me...they are so tiny, yet so hardy!! I love them. Listen for a high-pitched ringing sound.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Continue straight on the <i>Loblolly Loop.</i></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Turn right here and get onto the <i>Twin Lakes Loop</i>.<br />This is the connector trail, connecting the <i>Loblolly Loop</i><br />with the <i>Twin Lakes Loop</i>. </span></td></tr>
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<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Persimmons are very tasty, if they are ripe. You can tell they are ripe, by their dark color and wrinkly appearance.</span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now you're on the <i>Twin Lakes Loop</i>,<br />next to<i> Lake Byrd</i>. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just beyond <i>Lake Byrd</i> is the third main lake, <i>Lake Anna</i>.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Lake Anna</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Just to the right of the sign is the trailhead <br />of the <i>White Pine Trail</i> (see the map).</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Turn right to walk on the <i>White Pine Trail </i>(see map),<br />but take a break first, here, at <i>Lake Anna</i>, and<br />appreciate the sounds of birds, frogs, and insects. </span></td></tr>
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<br /><span style="font-size: large;">Why don't you take a short break here at Lake Anna. Whenever you are on a hike, be sure to take breaks once in awhile to appreciate the many different sounds and to observe all the living things around you...animals (butterflies, deer, turkey, and the sounds of birds, grass hoppers, and frogs; plants (the many different kinds of trees, and the great variety of wildflowers), and fungi (mushrooms, puffballs, and jelly fungi on trees). There's so much to see and hear and smell!</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Kai, looking for birds at <i>Lake Anna</i>.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Continue on the <i>White Pine Trail</i> </span><span style="font-size: small;">(to the right)</span><span style="font-size: large;">,</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The <i>White Pine Trail</i>. </span></td></tr>
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or you can turn left (below photo) and get onto the <i>Bluff Trail</i>. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We bypassed this connector trail.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Take a left here if you want to walk <u>to</u> the <i>Bluff Trail</i>,<br />which circles back toward <i>Lake Anna</i>. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">At this point we chose to turn left onto the <i>Bluff Trail</i>.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The top of an odd looking fungus<br />called a bolete.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As soon as we got onto the <i>Bluff Trail</i> we got off of it</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and got onto a side trail that took us to a beautiful creek. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is a side trail that leads to <i>Little Turnbull Creek.</i> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Hearts-a-Burstin'</i>, a very odd name for a flowering plant. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">At the bottom of the hill is <i>Little Turnbull Creek</i>. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">We crossed the creek and got onto the </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">Perimeter Trail</i><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">heading back toward the <i>Twin Lakes Loop</i></span><span style="font-size: large;">.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">This gets very confusing unless you can see a map. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The bluff next to <i>Little Turnbull Creek</i>.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Here, we crossed <i>Little Turnbull Creek</i>, a second time. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">A bridge, which is very close to <i>Lake Anna</i>.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">We're back at <i>Lake Anna</i>. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is the </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">Sycamore Springs Trail </i><span style="font-size: small;">(see map)</span><span style="font-size: large;">,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">which leads back to the picnic area where we began our walk.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Back at Shelter #1 at <i>Lake Van</i>.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">If you want to take a quiet walk, </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">this is the place. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Bowie Nature Park has pine trees, </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">deciduous trees, </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">creeks, and lakes </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">with many species </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">of wildlife! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">What a perfect place to wind down </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">after </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">a </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">hard day or a long week!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Get out and explore your natural world!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div>
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