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Leaf Litter: Sydney gets in the spirit

Syd jumped off the deck and started playing in the oak and hickory leaves …
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Leaf Litter: Sunny Sunday Sycamores

Sunny checks the woods behind Dove Cottage for coyotes during her Sunday morning stroll.
We went for a hike at the Stroud’s Run campground, where this stand of Sycamores greeted us.
Sycamore seed ball
Sycamore seeds
There are hundreds, maybe thousands, of seed balls dangling from this sycamore …
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Leaf Litter: Turkeys on the wing

Walking with Sunny in the pre-dawn hours yesterday morning, we both stopped dead in our tracks at the sound of frantic flapping in the trees above us. Barely discernible, a blob lumbers out of the branches and glides down the hill. Then several other trees start rustling with similar results. Sunny doesn’t get excited over much. But this got her dander up. We’d walked into a stand a trees where a flock of turkeys had sought refuge the previous night.

As we continued walking, we played hopscotch with one turkey who kept gliding to trees ahead of us, then moving on at our approach. Sunny soon lost interested and started sniffing for signs of the red fox who frequents that area …

I’ve captured the red fox on my game cam a few times, but so far Sunny hasn’t run into him. Maybe she’s looking for the wrong red fox …