I had this one a couple of days ago and purposefully stalled it for the holiday today, which is Is that…? No… Is It? Day, the day when we celebrate the clash between what we think we know and what the evidence is telling us. For this, I present something captured this past Monday while down at Goose Creek State Park.
It was a quiet day, with no sign of either osprey or cormorants and
Last night the lightning alert was going off madly, and the maps showed a couple of massive cells passing through, but not quite getting to us – they looked to be missing us by a small margin off to the west. Encouraged by this, I headed down to the waterfront because that afforded the best views east and west (actually, more west-northwest and east-southeast, but you take what you can get.)
The Girlfriend and I did a relatively brief trip to Goose Creek State Park, shit, over a week ago now, where I snagged a small handful of photos – nothing exciting, but an outing nonetheless. The key part, as always when down near the water, is that I was on the lookout for eagles, of which I saw none. (On a latter trip this past weekend, we found what appeared to be eagle nests in two different
While World Migratory Bird Day yielded just one bird for me, the previous couple of days were a lot more productive, as my brother and I did a short trip out to Washington, North Carolina, and points further east. Here on the waterfront of the town, a nest box for purple martins (Progne subis) shows a lot of activity, in a prime location where there were plenty of riverside
N 35°27’39.05″ W 76°53’44.87″ Google Earth Location
Today we go all the way back to the day before yesterday, on the shores of Pamlico River within Goose Creek State Park – I can’t tell you what the tree is because I still haven’t looked that closely, but it’s decorated with Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides) anyway. My brother and I were
I mentioned taking a trip recently, which was to Washington, only not that one, and not that one either, but the one in North Carolina – the first town to be named after George Washington, as they proudly proclaim. Well, not the whole town, or really anyone living there that I heard, but on a plaque in a park, anyway. Washington sits on a river delta