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Hidden : 1/12/2015

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Geocache Description:

Safari Cache at the Jackson County Recreation Trail Area.

This mystery/puzzle cache is part of the Jackson County Conservation Geocache Safari series. The safari series encourages geocachers to visit the county parks in Jackson County. Enjoy your visit to all of the safari caches, collect all of the code words from the caches and redeem them for a pathtag reward.

Be sure to follow the Safari Cache directions and rules below to have a successful cache experience.

Puzzle Cache Directions

♦ The cache container is not at the posted coordinates.
♦ To find this cache you must first answer a few easy questions.
♦ The answers to the questions can be found on the many signs located at the trail head near the posted coordinates.
♦ With the correct answers you will be able to fill in the missing coordinates to the cache container.

Final Coordinates= N 42 0(A).60(B), W 090 2(C).25(D)

To find the correct number for (A) choose the correct answer to the following question.

"How long is the Jackson County Recreation Trail?"

♦ 7.5Miles (A)=5
♦ 6.5 Miles (A)=6
♦ 5.5 Miles (A)=7

To find the correct number for (B) choose the correct answer to the following question.

"The Jackson County Recreation Trail connects to what other trail that leads out of Preston, Iowa?"

♦ The Penny River Trail (B)=4
♦ The Copper Creek Trail (B)=5
♦ The Iron Bridge Trail (B)=6

To find the correct number for (C) choose the correct answer to the following question.

"The Jackson County Recreation Trail crosses two creeks along its path. The Copper Creek and which other creek?"

♦ Skunk Creek (C)=2
♦ Bear Creek (C)=3
♦ Deep Creek (C)=4

To find the correct number for (D) choose the correct answer to the following question.

"A sign at the trail head states that all pets must be on a "___________ ?"at all times.?"

♦ Diet (D)=3
♦ Train(D)=4
♦ Leash(D)=5

Jackson County Conservation
Geocache Safari

Explore Jackson County parks, learn about different bird species and have fun geocaching!

#8 Indigo Bunting

The all-blue male Indigo Bunting sings with cheerful gusto and looks like a scrap of sky with wings. Sometimes nicknamed "blue canaries," these brilliantly colored yet common and widespread birds whistle their bouncy songs through the late spring and summer all over eastern North America. Look for Indigo Buntings in weedy fields and shrubby areas near trees, singing from dawn to dusk atop the tallest perch in sight or foraging for seeds and insects in low vegetation..

http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Indigo_Bunting/id

FUN AND INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE INDIGO BUNTING

♦ Indigo Buntings migrate at night, using the stars for guidance. Researchers demonstrated this process in the late 1960s by studying captive Indigo Buntings in a planetarium and then under the natural night sky. The birds possess an internal clock that enables them to continually adjust their angle of orientation to a star—even as that star moves through the night sky.

♦ Like all other blue birds, Indigo Buntings lack blue pigment. Their jewel-like color comes instead from microscopic structures in the feathers that refract and reflect blue light, much like the airborne particles that cause the sky to look blue.

♦ Bunting plumage does contain the pigment melanin, whose dull brown-black hue you can see if you hold a blue feather up so the light comes from behind it, instead of toward it.

♦ The oldest known wild Indigo Bunting was 8 years, 3 months old.

♦ They are more common now than when the pilgrims first landed. This is due to an increase in their favorite habitat of woodland edges, such as power line clearings and along roads.

♦ A group of buntings are collectively known as a "decoration", "mural", and "sacrifice" of buntings.

♦ Indigo Buntings are actually black; the diffraction of light through their feathers makes them look blue. This explains why males can appear many shades from turquoise to black.

Safari Cache Rules

(Disclaimer-The safari journal and the other safari caches do not need to be completed to claim a found it on this geocache)

1) Begin the Jackson County Conservation Geocache Safari at [ Trumpeter Swan-J.C.C.Geocache Safari #1 ] [ GCxxxx ]
2) At [ Trumpeter Swan-J.C.C.Geocache Safari #1 ] there will be blank copies of the Safari Journal for you to pickup. Additional copies are available inside the Hurstville Interpretive Center during operating hours.
3) The Safari Journal has information on the 12 Safari Caches that will need to be found.
4) Each Safari Cache has a code word on the cache container that will need to be entered into the Safari Journal.
5) Once the journal is completed with all of the code words, it can be returned to the Hurstville Interpretive Center for a special Safari pathtag.
6) All of the Safari Caches are on public use property and all rules and laws are to be followed.
7) Cache at your own risk.
8) There will be a limit of 1 pathtag per geocacher and two pathtags per family.
9) All children who complete the safari will be allowed their choice of one prize from the safari prize box located inside the Hurstville Interpretive Center.

Safari Cache Instructions

#8-Indigo Bunting
1) The cache is located at the posted coordinates.
2) Use the information from the cache listing or the Safari Journal to locate the cache.
3) Once you find the cache, sign the log and locate the code word.
4) Enter the code word into the Safari Journal for #8 Indigo Bunting.
5) When all of the caches have been found and all of the code words have been collected, return to the Hurstville Interpretive Center to trade your completed journal for a Safari Pathtag.

As always, be safe, be courteous, be respectful and have fun.

Please remember that all caches in the Jackson County Conservation Areas are CITO locations.

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Indigo Bunting-J.C.C.Geocache Safari-#8 Mystery Cache