As nobody showed up to the Save the Pine Bush hike this month, I decided to do my own self-guided hike which included parts of the Truax Barrens and other lands off of Kings Highway. Great day, lots of wildlife in the woods. I saw several antler-less white tailed deer, including a big blood spot, which I was hoping to find a shed but no luck. I saw a chipmunk and a gray-squirrel. I also saw a cotton tail, and a red tail hawk flying around probably looking for said rabbit. Ran into two hunters with 20-gauge shotguns, I’m sure they would have liked to get that rabbit too. Maybe they did …

I walked back along Old State Road, which was fine, but motorists really seem to fly along that road and act like they own it. I don’t know, I think as a pedestrian I have just as much of a right to walk on it as the motorist have to drive it.