Hiking Nature

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IF I’m not mistaken — and why the hell should I be –this is the first Radnor Lake hike I have been on this year which was void of deer.  Odder still, I had heard Kelly boast only a few minutes beforehand that he spotted seventeen — yes, 17 — deer on the hike he’d just finished.

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I could not get enough, so I returned to Radnor Lake at 6pm for another full scope 4.5-mile hike. I decided to let my hair down a little bit & get jiggy with it, so I did a counterclockwise hike.

On this evening’s hike I spotted eight deer.
As dusk neared, I saw a couple of little brown bats, which […]

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Kelly and I met at 12:30 in the Radnor Lake parking lot on the Granny White side. He was wearing a Wordpress t-shirt (this blog is powered by Wordpress); I might be lucky enough to have one, had I made it to Barcamp Nashville. If it were a color other than red, I […]

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It was an uncharacteristically short hike today, but not on purpose. I got a late start due to the difficulty I had in peeling myself away from surfing the web for CSS info with a typography emphasis. Know what I mean?
 There were about 30 wheelbarrows on Otter Creek Road, in a great double-stacked row near the […]

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Strange timing indeed. The deer count for today’s 4.5-mi loop hike was 17 - this time with no backtracking, so the count was legit.  This is a new record for me.
Just before I turned off the radio and hit the trails at 5pm, I heard them say it was 100 degrees.  Excellent, it had cooled […]

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I set out on my almost-daily Radnor Lake hike at about 5:30, on the South Cove Trail. As I ascended the long uphill straightaway — the portion of the SC trail which takes you to the top of the ridge, after the hairpin turn — I ran into a fawn on the trail. […]

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I managed to peel myself away from web development work and head for Radnor Lake; hit the trails around 6:30.  It was a very pleasant hike. I parked at Granny White, walked up the road, and hit the South Cove Loop trail at a respectable pace.

When I neared the top, I just about stumbled over one of […]

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Hit the trails at 5:30 or so and headed counterclockwise, with the intention of meeting Kelly somewhere  — along the way.
I saw a couple of turtles as I stood on the bridge at the start of my hike. I don’t think I have ever seen the water level so low; it looks like the level […]

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The only notable experience on today’s hike at Radnor Lake was a truly close encounter with a large Barred Owl.  The only time I have been closer to an owl was two months ago: Kelly and I tread into the presence of three owls, presumably juveniles, but it was too dark to see them clearly.

With […]

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