Allie's Dancing Duck - Now Missing and Retired LbNA #36419 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Nov 1, 2007 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Colleyville |
| County: | Tarrant |
| State: | Texas |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Viewfinder  |
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| Found by: | WebWalkers |
| Last found: | Mar 30, 2008 |
| Status: | FFaa |
| Last edited: | Nov 1, 2007 |
Allie’s Dancing Duck
The Colleyville Nature Center, located south of Glade Road between Grapevine Hwy (Hwy 26) and Precinct Line Rd (FM 3029), is a beautiful place to walk along Little Bear Creek through wooded areas and around several large ponds. It’s a popular place for fishing, walking and biking, and for feeding the ducks and geese that inhabit the ponds, for family picnics, and for just strollingm sitting, and observing and enjoying a little bit of nature.
To find the Colleyville Nature Center, turn south from Glade Rd. onto Mill Creek and follow the street to the entrance of Colleyville Nature Center. You’ll want to circle the duck ponds to your left and feed the ducks and geese, watching for gray herons and other wildlife before you begin your letterbox search, or your children might enjoy playing on the playground near the parking area.
Clues begin from the black light pole at the SE corner of the parking lot. The beginning of this trail is a concrete path, which later becomes a dirt trail with some benches and interpretive markers along the way. Walk along the concrete path into the woods to the right (SW, away from the pond and playground). About 70 steps along this path (if you’re a short person, as I am), you’ll pass a bridge to your left. Do not cross the bridge; continue on the main path. About 90 steps further along the path, you should find the “Colleyville Nature Center” marker. Facing this marker, you’ll see a stone gate ahead and a bridge beyond. Leaving the concrete path, pass through this stone gate and continue across the bridge. From the far end of the bridge, pass through the amphitheater in front of the stone seats for about 120 steps W and continue along the dirt trail to “The Forest” interpretive marker. From this marker, follow the path as it jogs around, first going left about 15 steps to an intersecting path, and then right at the next intersection, past a green bench, to the “Little Bear Creek” interpretive marker.
Allie’s Dancing Duck is carefully hidden in that short dead tree stump you just passed on the left side of the trail, between the green bench and the Little Bear Creek interpretive marker. Look under the short piece of log and some dead leaf debris. After stamping in, please be careful to reseal all bags and the box, and carefully recover this box in the tree stump, since it is immediately next to the trail and could easily be discovered if not carefully hidden. Be careful not to be seen!
Have fun exploring all the trails in this beautiful natural area. There are several more ponds in an open area, if you continue along the trails, and you can often see more herons, hawks, or even the occasional snake swimming in the water.
Please email me and let me know the status of this box. Thanks!
The Colleyville Nature Center, located south of Glade Road between Grapevine Hwy (Hwy 26) and Precinct Line Rd (FM 3029), is a beautiful place to walk along Little Bear Creek through wooded areas and around several large ponds. It’s a popular place for fishing, walking and biking, and for feeding the ducks and geese that inhabit the ponds, for family picnics, and for just strollingm sitting, and observing and enjoying a little bit of nature.
To find the Colleyville Nature Center, turn south from Glade Rd. onto Mill Creek and follow the street to the entrance of Colleyville Nature Center. You’ll want to circle the duck ponds to your left and feed the ducks and geese, watching for gray herons and other wildlife before you begin your letterbox search, or your children might enjoy playing on the playground near the parking area.
Clues begin from the black light pole at the SE corner of the parking lot. The beginning of this trail is a concrete path, which later becomes a dirt trail with some benches and interpretive markers along the way. Walk along the concrete path into the woods to the right (SW, away from the pond and playground). About 70 steps along this path (if you’re a short person, as I am), you’ll pass a bridge to your left. Do not cross the bridge; continue on the main path. About 90 steps further along the path, you should find the “Colleyville Nature Center” marker. Facing this marker, you’ll see a stone gate ahead and a bridge beyond. Leaving the concrete path, pass through this stone gate and continue across the bridge. From the far end of the bridge, pass through the amphitheater in front of the stone seats for about 120 steps W and continue along the dirt trail to “The Forest” interpretive marker. From this marker, follow the path as it jogs around, first going left about 15 steps to an intersecting path, and then right at the next intersection, past a green bench, to the “Little Bear Creek” interpretive marker.
Allie’s Dancing Duck is carefully hidden in that short dead tree stump you just passed on the left side of the trail, between the green bench and the Little Bear Creek interpretive marker. Look under the short piece of log and some dead leaf debris. After stamping in, please be careful to reseal all bags and the box, and carefully recover this box in the tree stump, since it is immediately next to the trail and could easily be discovered if not carefully hidden. Be careful not to be seen!
Have fun exploring all the trails in this beautiful natural area. There are several more ponds in an open area, if you continue along the trails, and you can often see more herons, hawks, or even the occasional snake swimming in the water.
Please email me and let me know the status of this box. Thanks!