Sometimes you have to get away from it all. We threw the canoe onto the car roof and headed for the lagoons in Presque Isle State Park Sunday evening. If you look at the map it doesn’t seem you could get that “away from it all” feeling being so physically close to paths, […]

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Sunday, at the Erie National Wildlife Refuge, we saw a Yellow Warbler up close and you really know spring is here when you see this pretty yellow bird flashing around the brush. It had reddish-rust streaks on its belly.

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I believe this bird is an Eastern Wood PeeWee. * (See comment below. […]

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We have seen the building of the roller coaster from the beginning. We drove under it and just thought it’s just not a good entrance to our very special state park. I find it so out-of-place next to the Tom Ridge Environmental Center. It was shocking when I walked out onto the […]

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