the Way of the Turtle

ROAMING THE WILDS OF NORTHEASTERN COLUMBIA COUNTY
3.3 Mile Walk at Ooms Conservation Area
2.0 Mile Walk at Wilson Powell Wildlife Sanctuary
Saturday, October 31, 2009

I left the house heading toward a hike to the summit of Harvey Mountain, on the NY-MA border, and possibly a hike to the Beebe Hill Fire Tower and No Bottom Pond. On the way home I planned to swing by Ooms Conservation Area, one of the Columbia Land Conservancy properties that's supposed to be a good birding site. Unfortunately, as I drove east the clouds moved in and it started drizzling... so I headed to Ooms first, hoping the sky would clear a bit. That never really happened to any great degree, and I didn't feel like hiking up Harvey in the drizzle, so in the end I visited another birding site nearby, the privately owned Wilson Powell Wildlife Sanctuary.

more to come...