Nature

Just another outdoor adventure. 

I always love this one trail. It's not very traveled.  Last time we saw some deer. This trip we scared some grouse. Kids love to check for beaver activity. 

We appreciate the little bridges here and there. Kids met the guy who did all this work once, that was neat.

Justin likes to just start at the beginning and go to the end, but has to put up with his wife pausing, noticing and wondering. This treeline stumped me. I wondered if they were squirrel dreys from before the beaver changed this habitat and subsequently killed the trees? Or some sort of bird nests from after the trees were dead?  I do what I always do when I have a nature question.  Nope. Not google.  Ask my dad. He sends me things to identify multiple times a week (not because he doesn't know, he wants to see if I know).  I do the opposite...send him things I don't know because I figure he'd know.  He said this looked like a Great Blue Heron Rookery. I think he's right! We will reference these dates and visit next year at the appropriate time to see if there is any activity. 

My crew, including my little one who still wants to be carried on my back at times.