The Dog Days of Autumn?
Filled with Warm Afternoon Sunlight, Our Hike at West Hills County Park was a Spectacular, Soon to Be, Dog Day of Autumn
West Hills is on Long Island's Ronkonkoma Terminal Moraine. Some sixty thousand years ago, a glacier from Canada, carrying ice, boulders, rocks, gavel and soil, deposited its debris to form the many hills of this county park. It has a mixed deciduous forest, including oak and beech trees. And its understory contains mountain laurel which is one of my favorite spring flowering shrubs. There is also an assortment of wildlife, but not wild turkey, according to our hike leader, Tom Casey, who frequents West Hills. This lack of wild turkey continues to be a mystery to me, as wild turkey was reintroduced to Long Island in the early nineties and hasn't distributed evenly throughout Long Island. And there is a dog park. A dog park is a playground of sorts for dogs, and for people too.
Credit: Mindy Block
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