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Along the Way to Vernooy Falls
Crossed this cute little brook. -
Upper Vernooy Falls
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Lower Vernooy Falls
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Sunset on Hadley Mountain
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Fox
Winter coat is looking a bit raggid, but a welcome sight nonetheless... -
Pileated Woodpecker
Saw this (not-so) little guy two weeks previously... and discovered my camera had run out of batteries! Fortunately, he decided to turn up again. -
White-breasted Nuthatch
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Cardinal
A cardinal claims a sunflower seed that the chickadees missed. Mendon Ponds, NY. -
Buttercup
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Viola
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Waves of Wood
Unsteady ground has forced this swamp boardwalk into a pattern of miniature hills and valleys. -
Kaaterskill Falls
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Forget-Me-Not
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Stream and Stone
A small, spring-fed mountain stream cascades down the face of a boulder. -
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C
A decaying log forns the shape of the letter C... or is that 80% of a circular pie graph? -
Female Grackle
A female common grackle. -
A Kettle Cracked
The unfortunate thing about cast iron kettles is that they can become brittle with age... Fortunately, even when no longer usable for cooking, they can always be used to stand in for a rock in your landscaping (in a pinch). -
Grackles
A pair of male common grackles. -
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Bald Eagle
I /think/ this might be the female... -
Evening Grosbeak
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Chickadee
A chickadee enjoys a small seed. Helderberg Escarpment, NY, USA. -
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Spillway
Abnormally-high water levels force dumping of excess water. Hours earlier, two of these gates were fully opened. -
The Hobbit Tree
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Mist
Sometimes you need to get a little wet... Mist off the waterfall fogs the lens. Plotter Kill, New York, USA. -
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Eerie
It's just fog, no need to be frightened... -
Sunset
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Spring melt waters cascade over a small waterfall. Helderberg Escarpment, NY, USA. -
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Cotton Candy Sunset
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Too Much of a Good Thing
This hydroelectric plant can drop the level of the lake behind its dam six feet in an hour... Usually. With the plethora of water draining into the lake, the plant has been running nonstop, and this overflow sluice has been opened for almost three days straight! Lucky they designed for that... -
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Hadley Mountain
The view from the summit of Hadley Mountain, New York, about fifteen minutes before sunset. -
I Said, NO SWIMMING!
He looks angry -- I'd do as he says... -
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Bluebird
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Bluebird in Flight
An Eastern Bluebird in flight, as seen from below. -
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Bald Eagle in Flight
With a wingspen of nearly six feet, these raptors can cast a pretty formidable shadow when they pass ilow n front of the sun (but usually they fly higher)... -
Pre-Flight Check
An adolescent bald eagle practices flight from the safety of the nest. They weren't quite getting into the air yet. In another week or two this young predator will be able to lift himself a few inches off the nest; in three to four, he'll be flying on his own. -
Great Northern Loon
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Salad Bar
A beaver enjoys an evening snack. -
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Red Squirrel
A red squirrel enjoys some fresh pine sprout (s/he was arguably my most cooperative subject of the outing). -
More Bald Eaglets
Adolescent bald eagles -- still too young to fly -- couriously observe left on the river below, awaiting the delivery of their next meal by their parents -- at this stage in their growth, their appeities have balooned to keep their parents hunting nearly continuously during daylight hours. -
Bald Eaglets
A pair of adolescent bald eagles size each other up while waiting for lunch... -
Bald Eagle
I /think/ this might be the female... -
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The shadows around the eyes almost resemble eyebrows... (and I shall call him Bob). -
Suspicious
Think I've been spotted... -
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Late Breakfast
A male evening grosbeak discards part of a sunflower seed as he enjoys a late-morning snack. -
Evening Grosbeak
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Otter
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