Here are 108 acres of woods on Glass Creek, just a few miles north of Otis Farm Sanctuary. There are old growth beech, oak and tulip trees at the northern end of the property, just follow the trail until just after the first bridge across the creek. Trail is 1.7 miles start on Erway Rd to exit on Hart Rd. Easiest is to return to the parking lot via Hart & Erway Roads, also much shorter distance.
2500 Erway Rd., Hastings, Rutland Twp T3N R9W Sec 29
An unnamed pond is on the property and supposedly there was a floating bog, apparently gone now. But the trees are extraordinary! You find yourself in a location where you'll not hear any sounds of civilization. Is this that early settlers experienced? But they were much more used to quiet unlike people nowadays who can't function without a minimum of constant white noise in their life.
Breeding birds inhabiting this area typically are Acadian Flycatchers, Ovenbirds, Scarlet Tanagers and Yellow-billed Cuckoos. Cuckoos! Really!
I'm convinced the deteriorating white house on Hart Rd was built by the Warner family. More about the family background in a later post. This is yet another property that was in the same family for over 100 years. I couldn't bear to take a photo of the west side where the wall is rotted out.
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