For a day that began in the low 20s, this turned out to be a passably warm day
for this time of year. I had a few photo-ops as Alison and I circled the front
field. Sun was so bright, I had trouble seeing my camera view screen. Did get a
so so image of a Red-tailed Hawk on the power line just a short way north of
the house. Great Blue Heron usually heads to back field pond when we pass
middle pond. Today it landed just across middle pond long enough for an image.
I’m not going to name any names, but someone said I likely saw Loblolly Pines
along the Pennyrile Parkway on Thanksgiving rather than Virginia Pines.
Loblolly Pine is the species many farmers, including me, have planted in
isolated thickets as free gifts of a long ago government program. Virginia Pine
is shown on my field guide range map to be the only pine that naturally ranges
into the Western KY coal fields. The normal range of Loblolly Pine barely
reaches the southern border of Tennessee.
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Frank Lyne
frank@xxxxxxxxxxx - near Dot in Logan County, KY
