For some reason, when I originally posted this last evening (April 29th) the comments section was turned off and the only way to fix the setting was to delete the post. So, here I go again. It doesn’t pay to try to blog when you really should be sleeping!
We finally started banding seriously yesterday and [...]
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What started out as a simple move from the winter house back to my cozy summer cabin turned into several days off-line because the phone line in the cabin wasn’t working and on the first trip out, the phone company tech went to the wrong house – and then came the weekend.
It has been a [...]
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So far today there is no sign of the bear family in the swamp, but early this afternoon when I checked, I didn’t totally discount that they might still be there. It is pouring rain and gloomy. I could not see the mother bear yesterday (a beautiful day) once she decided to lie down – [...]
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After some good birding this morning along the Old Mine Road, I decided to return to the observatory and take a look at the net lane in the swamp where the first banding will take place after this next storm passes through. Fortunately, I decided to drive down there instead of walk…even though it is [...]
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One of my regular birding routes takes me past this old house in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, and just off the Old Mine Road. It is a good location for warblers in the spring and fall migrations, and also for many nesting birds in the breeding season. Today there were only a [...]
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At least one wild honey bee colony was located last weekend – on my brother’s boat in Florida. Got an email from Paul yesterday – and pictures. Seems he and his wife arrived at the marina on Sunday morning planning on a fishing trip. As they were preparing the boat, Paul noticed about a dozen [...]
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I kind of felt sorry for this old boy this morning. Not even a sidewards glance by the ladies….
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I think I’ve mentioned here before that the Old Mine Road is one of my ‘haunts” that I visit frequently. With the coming of spring, I have two nice birding survey routes of this area that I take nearly every day. Nice to live within a few minutes of such opportunities.
The Old Mine Road (OMR) [...]
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Rob and I returned to the pond on Saturday with his camera and tripod.
Don’t you just love that face?
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