Fawns dropping everywhere-best to leave ’em where they lie We escaped a frost last Friday and Saturday mornings. It got down to 38 degrees at Eight Acre Wood though there were probably pockets of frost in some spots.

Frost wouldn’t have been a good thing as most of the trees, berries and flowers have set their flowers and are ready for seeds to form.

The Bears might have something to eat as we may have a good berry crop this year.

Bears have been seen in the area so keep the garbage under wraps until it’s picked up or you take a trip to the transfer station.

The storm last week knocked out my phone along with the phones of others up the line.

Phone service was on and off all week and finally got it back for good last night (6/4).

It would come on in the morning and go off at night. A couple days we had no service at all.

The telephone company kept telling us it was fixed. Lightning must have burned out something.

I see a couple big forest fires in Arizona were started by lightning. The one in the Northeast corner has zero containment so far. This is one of the biggest fires ever in the state.

According to news reports they had run out of local resources to fight the fires so I’m sure out- of-state crews will be going that way soon.

I miss that kind of action, but not so much that I would ever do it again.

I got together with some of the local Forest Rangers and Forestry people from Herkimer on Friday for a trip to Ice Cave Mountain where there is also a cave.

Forest Ranger Bob Coscomb of Boonville, whose area covers the unique area, called last winter and asked if I would join a group that would be taking the trip in the spring.

I had only been there once, back in 1969.

I contacted Jim Massett, who had hunted in that area many times in the past, to see if we were going to the same cave.

There is an unmarked trail from the east end of North Lake that goes right to the cave site. He agreed to join us on the trip.

Forest Ranger Coscomb said many people walk to the site every year. He wanted other Rangers to see the site in case they were ever involved in a rescue in that area.

The site is a 96-foot-long crevice in the rock ledge about ten feet wide at the top. It is over forty feet deep with a small room at the south end.

The crevice on Friday was filled with snow and ice part way up from the bottom. I’ve been told that some years the snow and ice stays until October.

Years ago when the Adiron-dack League Club leased this property, one of the line walkers ventured there and fell in and died. It’s not a place where someone should wander too close to the edge.

There is a large erratic rock that balances at the end of the mountain not far from its south end.

When we were there we spread the group out and looked for out-spots that could be a problem. We found a nice cave or crevice that went back into the rock ledge over forty feet with a small room at the end.

If anyone ventures there they should be careful. They should sign the register at the beginning of the trail as it continues on to Horn Lake.

Bob has already conducted a search for a missing fisherman who wandered off the trail to Horn Lake. He was found a long way from the trail alive and well but hungry!

I forgot to tell you that the day after I saw the cow Moose on the Sagamore Road I was on the way back to Crown Point when I saw that a large bull Moose had been killed on the Blue Ridge Road.

Three years ago I saw two small bull Moose just down the road from there. I’m sure this was one of them that had grown some.

This animal must have weighed around 1200 pounds.

Conservation Officer John Blades was on the scene waiting for something to haul it away. It had been hit by a big truck for sure, but no parts of the truck were left behind.

Does are starting to drop their fawns-maybe right in your front yard. The does seem to know that their fawns are safer in your yard than out in the woods where the Coyotes and Bear roam.

Bears are he biggest predator of fawns in the north country. They seem to know where the does drop their fawns from year to year.

If you see one of these fawns just leave it alone as mother will be back.

This goes for baby birds that bail out of the nest early. Their mothers will feed them on the ground until they can get airborne.

Fawns have no odor for the first few days after they are born which offers them some protection.

Loons are doing their thing, but that’s another story.

See ya.