The first week of FLRC’s Happy Holidays Scavenger Hunt is already through! The turkeys were a-plenty, the colors were popping, and there sure were some cool trees too! Be sure you post your items by the end of the week (I’ll give some grace if you’ve got any pictures from a Turkey Trot hanging around you may want to get out there – people will go into the hat for the prize draw with any entries submitted.
Are we ready for Week 2?! From Thursday to Wednesday (12/5 - 12/11), find as many of these items as you can while out on your walk, run, or hike.
This week’s set of items are as follows -
The largest animal you can find
The tallest thing - that’s not a building or a tree!
Four calling birds (or the most birds you can find)
FIIIIVE GOOOLD RIIIINGS (or the best ring / circle you can make on a run - you could use and tag our FLRC Strava Club?)
Six geese a-laying (or finding a good spot for a-layin’ down on your run?)
Once you find your item, take a selfie or picture and post it on this thread. Remember, for every selfie or picture of one of these items that you post, you get one point. The runner(s) with the most points will be entered into the swag drawing at the end of the event. And, while five might seem to be the high score, I as the omnipotent race director get to award extra points based on particularly creative or artistic photos, or those that get lots of “likes” here on the Forum.
Your creativity in Week 1 has been awesome, and I can’t wait to see what everyone finds this week! Happy hunting!
I wouldn’t consider a Harvestore silo (blue) a building, but if it is, then I’ll go with the power pole in the foreground as the tallest thing I saw today.
Wow! Those are some tall powerlines (?)! I’m not sure you’re really selling that the Eagle’s nest is a comfortable place to lay down, but it definitely looks cool.
My tall thing is this abnormally large gray telephone pole. It’s next to a regular pole for scale, the wood one just to the left. The two poles are next to each other about 5 feet apart (light wood and gray).
I went for a walk with my parents on Sunday and found a tall structure for birds to build a nest on and what sounded like hundreds of geese coming down to rest on the lake. Though it was warm-ish day, I was disinclined to lie anywhere!
But then I read the directions more closely and waited to post until I could make some proper rings, to make sure I get credit. I know they look pretty tiny but they should suffice:
Took a longish walk/run with daughter, friends, & dog in Prospect Park in Brooklyn. This is a great place to nap
And this is a circle around the dog park
And also some golden rings, some of which were in my daughter’s ears on the walk
And many geese in the park, a-swimming, not a-laying. And there are 2 swans in this foto. I saw at least 5 in the park, but they were not a-swimming. Oh right, the swans weren’t specified in the hunt, but they’re in the song.
This tall thing, the Verrezano-Narrows Bridge, was strictly speaking not on my walk, but on my way home from Brooklyn. It’s very tall, as is the lamppost. I did not run over this bridge, but in fairness I bicycled over it during last May’s Bike5Boroughs bike tour.
Back home, I chose to do yesterday’s run was on my treadmill. My bike rack is the tallest thing in my workout room. (An aside, yesterday I also bought another bike, a used one, which fell apart (!!) while bringing it home on the car. All fixed now, though not pictured)
I think I found an even BIGGER animal! This Hereford bull (well, I think he’s a bull; he wouldn’t stand up for me to get visual confirmation) is bigger than the previous cow I ‘found’.
FIIIIVE GOOOLD RIIIINGS 
