[rwest]

Big nature day on today’s 55 mile bike ride. High 60’s temp and mid afternoon.

As usual, I saw a few black squirrels along with the very common grey and red squirrels all frantically getting ready for winter.

I herded 2 garter snakes and one red belly brown snake off of the highway; just hate seeing them smushed. Luckily in MN none of our snakes are poisonous to humans, well apparently, we do have rattle snakes way down south in some river bluffs.

Lots and lots of wooly caterpillars.

Two deer in the road.

Finally what I think might have been an owl flying away from me, didn’t get a good look, but it appeared to have a bigger head than a hawk.