Lil' Chickadee Series LbNA #10169 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Aug 16, 2004 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Mendon Ponds Park, Mendon |
| County: | Monroe |
| State: | New York |
| Boxes: | 2 |
| Found by: | Jiggs |
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| Last found: | May 9, 2010 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Aug 16, 2004 |
Placed by Genny
New for 2005! I have added another box to this series. I hope to make a total of about 5 so keep checking back! I hope you enjoy the hunt!
This box is located in Mendon Ponds Park, a huge park of over 2,000 acres, it includes many miles of nature trails, scenic picnic grounds, sledding hills, and a small beach.
To find this box you will be walking the Birdsong Trail; a place that many area residents hold dear to their hearts because it is home to some amazingly tame chickadees, nuthatches, titmice, squirrels, and chipmunks, who will eat right out of a person's hand. In winter, even the deer will approach people at very close range for an offering of an apple or some other rare treat. So, be sure to bring along some bird seed (they seem to like sunflower seed the best), in order to make this a fully bird-loving and memborable experience.
Terrain: Mostly flat, easy walking.
Clue Difficulty: Moderate
Time: Allow 15-20 minutes on the trail each way.
To begin, enter the park at the west entrance where Clover Rd and Pond Rd intersect. Once you have entered the park make your first right and park in the nature center parking lot. Walk under the big green nature center sign and under some trumpet vines and pass the nature center on your right.
Walk until you come to a fork in the path and a sign about the glacial geography of Mendon Ponds Park. From the sign head SE down the path 60 paces (2 steps each), until you come to a second fork and a posted trail map.
Continue SE and keep walking the trail until you meet a purple person and a birdie creation station on your left. Now you will have to do a little math (think back to 6th grade). Notice that there are three movable blocks that are each 4-sided. Standing beside the purple person and facing into the woods, take a compass reading of 40 degrees (approx. NE) and walk in this direction the same number of steps as possible birds you could create at the birdie creation station.
You should now find yourself standing in an old dwelling foundation before a hearth of years past. (Please walk with caution here, as there is some broken glass and a bit of old barbed wire on the ground!) From the hearth, look in the direction of 30 degrees past a tree with a double trunk to a tree with a quadruple one (about 21 paces away). It is here that you will find the LIL' CHICKADEE BOX. You will have to reach into the midst of this 4-headed tree to get it.
You should have plenty of privacy to stamp in and enjoy the contents of the box at your leisure, perhaps even to ponder who once called this little hearth home and when. When you are done please re-conceal the box with care, making sure it is not visible from the foundation, as it appears that some litterbugs visit here upon occasion and may not treat the box kindly if they found it.
To return to the path, retrace your steps back to the purple person.
To find where the LIL' CHIPMUNK ran head downhill as quick as you can. The trail will twist and turn this way and that just like a chipmunk when he runs. You will soon find yourself in a pine grove. Look for deer back in the foliage.
This is not your destination. Keep going along the trail for awhile until you find two wooden steps one after the other. At the bottom of this hill the trail makes a sharp turn and heads uphill.
As you go up find a big pine tree to the right of the trail. Walk 50 paces up from the big pine until you find yourself in a mossy situation. Once you have become an expert on moss you are ready to find the LIL' CHIPMUNK. Stand before the moss and look around. Lil' Chipmunk hides where one friend has fallen, yet the other still stands, about 10 paces away. When you come to the two friends look where you think a chipmunk might hide to find your prize. (Please note: There is no ink in this box).
Feel free to explore the rest of the trail (it comes back around in a loop) or simply walk back down the trail to the nature center and your car.
New for 2005! I have added another box to this series. I hope to make a total of about 5 so keep checking back! I hope you enjoy the hunt!
This box is located in Mendon Ponds Park, a huge park of over 2,000 acres, it includes many miles of nature trails, scenic picnic grounds, sledding hills, and a small beach.
To find this box you will be walking the Birdsong Trail; a place that many area residents hold dear to their hearts because it is home to some amazingly tame chickadees, nuthatches, titmice, squirrels, and chipmunks, who will eat right out of a person's hand. In winter, even the deer will approach people at very close range for an offering of an apple or some other rare treat. So, be sure to bring along some bird seed (they seem to like sunflower seed the best), in order to make this a fully bird-loving and memborable experience.
Terrain: Mostly flat, easy walking.
Clue Difficulty: Moderate
Time: Allow 15-20 minutes on the trail each way.
To begin, enter the park at the west entrance where Clover Rd and Pond Rd intersect. Once you have entered the park make your first right and park in the nature center parking lot. Walk under the big green nature center sign and under some trumpet vines and pass the nature center on your right.
Walk until you come to a fork in the path and a sign about the glacial geography of Mendon Ponds Park. From the sign head SE down the path 60 paces (2 steps each), until you come to a second fork and a posted trail map.
Continue SE and keep walking the trail until you meet a purple person and a birdie creation station on your left. Now you will have to do a little math (think back to 6th grade). Notice that there are three movable blocks that are each 4-sided. Standing beside the purple person and facing into the woods, take a compass reading of 40 degrees (approx. NE) and walk in this direction the same number of steps as possible birds you could create at the birdie creation station.
You should now find yourself standing in an old dwelling foundation before a hearth of years past. (Please walk with caution here, as there is some broken glass and a bit of old barbed wire on the ground!) From the hearth, look in the direction of 30 degrees past a tree with a double trunk to a tree with a quadruple one (about 21 paces away). It is here that you will find the LIL' CHICKADEE BOX. You will have to reach into the midst of this 4-headed tree to get it.
You should have plenty of privacy to stamp in and enjoy the contents of the box at your leisure, perhaps even to ponder who once called this little hearth home and when. When you are done please re-conceal the box with care, making sure it is not visible from the foundation, as it appears that some litterbugs visit here upon occasion and may not treat the box kindly if they found it.
To return to the path, retrace your steps back to the purple person.
To find where the LIL' CHIPMUNK ran head downhill as quick as you can. The trail will twist and turn this way and that just like a chipmunk when he runs. You will soon find yourself in a pine grove. Look for deer back in the foliage.
This is not your destination. Keep going along the trail for awhile until you find two wooden steps one after the other. At the bottom of this hill the trail makes a sharp turn and heads uphill.
As you go up find a big pine tree to the right of the trail. Walk 50 paces up from the big pine until you find yourself in a mossy situation. Once you have become an expert on moss you are ready to find the LIL' CHIPMUNK. Stand before the moss and look around. Lil' Chipmunk hides where one friend has fallen, yet the other still stands, about 10 paces away. When you come to the two friends look where you think a chipmunk might hide to find your prize. (Please note: There is no ink in this box).
Feel free to explore the rest of the trail (it comes back around in a loop) or simply walk back down the trail to the nature center and your car.