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Hi Andrew & All, May 1, 2008
Could that dark coarse hair have been Bear ?
Your road sounds like the one that heads West from near the South
end of Sunken Lake. A new wide gated road forks to the left from the old
road and a road of similar width and age joints the old road about 1/2
mile E of the Salmontail River and shortly beyond this the old road is
(was) obliterated by a clearcut. Several years ago there were many bear
tracks, flattened swamp grass etc. near the east edge of this chopping.
[Before this old road was obliterated one could follow it all the way to
Route 12. Hopefully someone with a GPS and a chainsaw will open it again.]
Are you familiar with The Falls on the Little River ? When you
follow the old road west there is an old camp on the left (about an hour
in ?). Several hundred paces beyond the camp the road rises from a low
area and Grouse often dust in the sand on the right. Just beyond this
dusting area (25-100 paces) look for a marked path to the right. [the
path used to start just beyond the dusting area but has worked westward
as windfalls and thickets have blocked sections of the original path and
westerly variants.]
The Falls are about 1/2 hour in from the road.
Yt, Dave Webster, Kentville
Andrew Steeves wrote:
> I did a short ramble this morning with my son and a couple of friends.
> We walked in the Sunken Lake/Little River area in Kings County. The
> first third of the trip was through woods on an narrow, old, muddy,
> rocky woods road. The last two thirds were on wide gravel logging
> roads mostly through the post-industrial wasteland of recent clearcuts.
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> In the wooded part we saw lots of birds, most interestingly a pair of
> PILEATED WOODPECKERS, a pair of YELLOWBELLIED SAPSUCKERS and a pair of
> DOWNY WOODPECKERS. We also saw lots of the usual suspects (grackels,
> eagles, bluejays, robins, chickadees, ravens, a couple of distant
> ducks, and sparrows.) There were pleantiful deertracks once we got
> into the chopping, and we found a strange clump of dark corse mammal
> fur on the road, but couldn't come up with a good guess between us
> what it came off of or how it got there.
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> Mid-morning, we stopped for a snack. I discovered a tick in my pant
> cuff, and Gary discovered wildflowers. At first we assumed they were
> mayflowers -- none of us are really flower-smart. Later, on
> examination of the pictures we took, they were clearly Sweet White
> Violets (Viola blanda ). At Little River we saw six bald eagles
> soaring high, two of them entangling and dropping momentarily at one
> point.
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> Andrew Steeves
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> Wolfville
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