Since it's now after midnight I was up to Waggoner's Gap yesterday for a little while.  This is the mountain where I grew up here in Cumberland County.  Living closer to the bottom many younger days were spent hiking or bicycling to the top.  One night after dark I didn't bother to come home so my mom drove up looking for me.  She was not mad but just didn't want me wandering around up there at night probably cause of satanic worshipers or something like that.  At the top the elevation is around 1500 feet so does not take too long to hike up there.     

  Because of the thick haze I was not able to see Three Mile Island cooling towers(27 miles away) or even the South Mountain so maybe next time.  I was reading about the new HawkWatch area and wanted to see what it looked like.  Over 19,000 different raptors migrate over the gap every year.  Volunteers spend hours each day counting them between August to September.  I do not know much about the hawks so I was reading about them today.  I guess I won't see them unless I go visit when they are actually migrating and not some hot afternoon in June.  I have no interest in counting birds but would like to see a Merlin.  A Merlin is a type of small falcon that will attack any other bird it sees including eagles. 

I have been feeding the animals the past few days so I took a few new pictures of them.  I was hoping the goats would walk with a leash but they are either very stubborn or think I am trying to steal them.

Brother Menges and Emma