Shawnee County, Kansas

Near Topeka

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Shawnee County Kansas (Class B) BFRO

April 2005

Walking the trails there are small ponds near one parking lot. Back in February, I had heard 3 equal-length whoops while in the woods there, about 10 seconds before a train came through. I thought it was probably an owl. Tuesday afternoon, the 26th, I took this picture near the edge of the smallest ponds near the parking lot. I took the photo because I thought it was odd that a bare human-looking footprint would be there in the mud, fairly fresh, as the nightly temperatures had been near or at freezing recently, and the water/mud would have been quite cold too. The more I looked at the footprint, I noticed how flat the sole was and how even the toes were. I don't know what to make of it, so I'm reporting it here.

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Shawnee County Kansas (Class B) BFRO

Fisherman describes being paralleled by a whistler after fishing the Blue River outside Manhattan

My brother-in-law and I were finishing up fishing the Blue River one night and were making the walk back to the car. Its probably a half mile walk or so on like a dry rocky edge of the river. Along th...

July 2011

Shawnee County Kansas (Class A) BFRO

Youth has sighting while fishing on Kansas River near Topeka

I was 10 yrs old roughly my dad and cousin and I were fishing on the Kansas River west of Topeka between Topeka and Silverlake. I was about 125 yards away from them on a sand bar when I looked to the ...

July 1978