Our for a nice little walk up at Partridge Run Game Management Area. 🚶🏻 🐦

The autumn colors have faded but it’s very quiet up here, only run into one person all day driving by in a car with their dog. Doing a bunch of wildlife observation 🔭 saw a few grouse and turkey and nut hatches. 🦃

Cool but fairly sunny although clouds are pushing in as it’s expected to rain the next few days. 🌤️

Walking past that off grid farm on Ravine Road, I guess the Messner Farm from the road sign, they have their generator running because I guess not enough solar this time of year, 🌞although they do have a pretty nice array of 250 watt panels on home made wooden frames. Their cows were bellowing too. 🐮 People probably say their poor rednecks because they live in a trailer with lots of junk but I’m jellous as hell. 🏡 Probably a shit ton more sustainable way of living then those plastic houses with solar panels, electric cars and always full garbage cans and recycling bins. ♻ Wood smoke smells amazing. 🌲

I am sitting here at the Gulf overlooking the Switz Kill Valley. 🏞 Listening to the crows and the cows bellowing in the dairy down in the Switz Kill Valley. I’m sure it’s the cows wanting to be fed or milked.🐄 Maybe the land might be pungent in a few weeks when things start to be fertilized once the crops are in the silos and bunks but it’s good the land still works, produces food and hasn’t become all suburbanites yet with their vinyl covered homes. 🏡

It’s small game season and several species are open and I’ve heard a few gun shots around but it’s been quiet. 🔫 By the lack of vehicles around, I don’t think many folks are even bow hunting – the main attraction is the Northern Zone rifle season for now. 🏹 Horse 🐴 trailer in one of the parking areas 🅿 so there must be horseback riders.