Hiking Nature

These events occurred on Saturday, March 27, 2010…

I was completely shocked and amazed by my discovery this morning during a walk at Ellington Agricultural Center in south Nashville, Tennessee. I had absolutely no idea any beavers lived so close to a Nashville residential area, and in a relatively small creek at that.
I live very near [...]

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Monday, February 16, 2009

When I returned to the house today from a meeting and errands – most of which were a waste of time, with today being President’s Day – I flipped the boob tube onto the Discovery Channel and noted that Dirty Jobs was on. I expected the creepy show A Haunting to [...]

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Friendly Google now gives you simple code to embed your maps into iframes on any site:

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It doth rock. Let me know what you think.

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While driving to REI in Brentwood today after a noon meeting, I thought, ‘Why not squeeze in a hike?’ It was around 2, and I was not meeting Kelly at Radnor for our evening hike until around 5:30. So I drove to the east parking lot off Franklin Rd. I’d not been up [...]

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I met Kelly at the Granny White parking lot at 12:30, and it was already in the upper 90s. Whew! We went to the canoe ramp area on the west end of the lake, in front of the cabin. Kelly took some panoramic shots and that was the last I saw of [...]

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This morning’s hike at Radnor Lake started out not unusual. Crowded parking lot meant there’d be more folks to see on the trails but it seems like the majority of the visitors walk or run on Otter Creek Road or take the easier trails. Stephen arrived first so after I replayed his instructions in my [...]

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There have been some incredible and unique wildlife sightings since I started hiking again a few weeks ago; for example:

three owls hanging around in one area, flying from branch to branch in spite of our presence
17 deer on one hike
two great blue herons at once
fawns galore
beaver
pair of pileated woodpeckers

I met Kelly on the South Cove [...]

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