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professor whose special concern and mission in the hollow is groundhogs— eradication, not propagation or protection.
In the course of a full year, one is likely, if reasonably alert, to see on the road or in his own yard or in pasture woods or meadow, deer, wild turkey, the resident black bear, a fox or two, racoons, opposum, squirrels, chipmunks, beavers, a transcient muskrat, mink or bob-cat and two or three floods of rabbits, field mice, moles and groundhogs.
Nearly all of the small birds of Virginia, including humming birds, live in the hollow or stop by enroute to better quarters, either north or south. Larger ones too come by or stay, vultures and hawks in great variety, including an osprej who pauses during spring and fall migration. Jays anti kingfishers, crows are there. The green heron and great blue fish the ponds and streams and wild geese at least fly over.
A litany of trees can be found along the road in wood lots and on mountain sides— pine, fir, cedar, hemlock, spruce, holly, birch, sycamore, beech, sassafras,
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