Sunday roadkill report

[jhetley]

Couple of crows, juvenile raccoon, porcupine, shreds of skunk.

Today's ride covered some of the hillier country I try, Copeland Hill and Rider Bluff and King's Mountain, with a few lakes and ponds tossed in just for pretty. I like to ride it in the fall when the trees turn, which hasn't _quite_ started yet -- see next week. But I probably won't do that route again this year, not without a preliminary reconnaissance by car. One section of Bucks Mills Road is under construction, just packed gravel, on a long uphill. That qualifies as at least the first circle of Hell on a narrow-tired road bike....

Stopped in at the nature center on the way back into town. No visible hummingbirds this time. Pair of dragonflies mating in the bird-bath pool, doing that dip-the-tail-in-the-water thing. Yay dragonflies!

44.05 miles, 3:34:30

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[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Later report by Wife gave one definite hummingbird, multiple sightings so maybe more than one individual. But not the buzzing swarm she'd seen last week. They may be starting to migrate.