August 16 - Sightings

Today is a very hot and humid day in in Adams County, so I only spent about an hour in the woods and choose not to go down towards the bottom of the hill since going down means hiking back up the steep terrain.

Despite the short time in today, I did see 4 deer ...

all within 100 yards of each other next to our power line trail (behind our garden and pond) between 8:30 and 8:45. Two of the deer were small antlerless deer with a sligtly visible spots and the other 2 were well spotted smaller fawns. In between seeing both sets of deer, a jake turkey walked up to me (about 20 feet away) and begin rolling in the dirt and kicking dust on himself - to keep the mites and lice down I suppose. I've seen chickens do this, but it was the first time I had ever seen a turkey giving himself a "dust bath".

After seeing the 4 deer, I went and sat in the permanent stand next to the apple orchid for about 15 minutes, but the no-see-ums and mosquitoes were eating me up, so I didn't stay there too long and didn't see anything.

Temperature was about 75 degrees, clear sunny day.

I added an aerial map showing every sighting and coordinates at the bottom of this page.