Yesterday evening around 6:45pm, my parents, Larry and Sara Jane Hymes, and
I went for a nighttime jaunt in Upper Buttermilk Falls State Park to
attempt to locate a lost phone (which we successfully found on the West
trail around Treman Lake). On the way back from our nighttime hike, around
8:00pm,
I just returned from a long walk on the eastern portion of the east
Ithaca Recreation Way. As I reached my half-way point at Judd Falls
Road I heard the four-note call of a Northern Saw-whet Owl repeated
several times. I returned to my cay and drove back to Maple Ave,
parking in the pull-of
