We’ll be leading a walk for the general public this coming Sunday, May 5, starting at 8:00 a.m. Meeting at the gate, we will take a leisurely stroll up the hollow to see the wildflowers and birds that are increasing their numbers daily. Overflow parking is available between the bridge and tracks and at the parking area along 453 just downstream from the bridge. Bring your camera and binoculars. Plan on it being over around 11:00 a.m.
In other exciting news, Mark just recorded the first Yellow-breasted Chat on the mountain in many years, in the blackberries near the top of our old meadow. We’ve been pleased with the slow but steady recovery of blackberries over the past couple of decades of good hunting, and this gives us another reason to value them, in addition to the many quarts of berries we harvest from them and the excellent protection they give to native tree and shrub sprouts trying to survive the deer we do still have.
Plummer's Hollow, Pennsylvania 