
Way up high on a tree on the trail near Pawlings Farm there was a pair of Pileated Woodpeckers making a nest. I just got one of them, but I marked the tree where they were and maybe, just maybe they will nest there and have a few little pumpkins. Wouldn’t that be fun!

At first I just heard their interesting voices which carried all the way up the newly created meadow to the edge of the woods where I was standing in Valley Forge. Their voices belonged to a pair of mating ravens. I could see them flying into and landing on the stone wall just above…