Six Mile Hills Nature Hike
On a mid-spring day, I drove up the old bumpy road from the highway up to Pat Lake in the Six Mile Hills. i paddled around the lake twice, once in each direction, the secured the boat before I hiked around the lake, following faint trails on grassland slopes above the lakeshore. I stopped to observe blackbirds, wrens, and ducks in the marshy areas and loons and muskrats in the lake. Wildflowers and flowering shrubs were abundant along the route and I stopped to observe and photograph some along the way. Included here are:
- white clematis (Clematis ligusticfolia)
- showy milkweed (Asclepias speciosa)
- silverweed (Argentina anserina)
- blanketflower (Gaillardia aristata)
- locoweed (Oxytropis campsestris)
- wax currant (Ribes cereum)
- hairy false goldenaster (Heterotheca villosa)*
All photos by the author, taken during that hike.
The Google Photos album can also be seen at this link – Six Mile Hills
*ID open for discussion
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