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Post by hmca on Apr 15, 2024 13:55:24 GMT
Have only seen orange spoonbills.....didn't realize that there were white ones!
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Post by hmca on Apr 15, 2024 23:54:52 GMT
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Post by BuckSkin on Apr 16, 2024 8:42:01 GMT
Took a ride to Sandy Hook this afternoon....
Every time you mention your Sandy Hook, I think of our Sandy Hook; located on old dangerous crooked KY210, there is a little community that used to have a Post Office, a little voting precinct shack for elections, and a sizable "Joint" or tavern or Honky Tonk or just a general bad place to be.
It was a landmark telling me I was halfway between Campbellsville and Hodgenville(birthplace of ol' Honest Abe) when I had to run through there two or three times every Saturday night with a big load of cattle.
It seems like it was always foggy or misting filthy rain or coming a downpour with visibility just about two feet ahead of the bumper.
I guess it is good that I couldn't see very well; else, I would have been more of a nervous wreck if I could see all those bottomless hollers with old tractor-trailer trucks down in them where it was just nigh impossible to winch them out so they just left them as a reminder that KY210 was a good place to get up close and personal with ol' Saint Peter. |
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Post by pontiac1940 on Apr 18, 2024 5:27:48 GMT
White pelicans. Today was blustery to say the least: overcast, howling wind and chilly. There were a few pelicans at the ponds (could see them from the road) so I bundled up and went for a short walk. Pelicans are usually quite spooky, but they let me walk within 50 metres before they were bothered enough to attempt to fly away. HA! They rose up a few feet and just flew a short distance ... right into the wind. Ops. I had to use the 2023 stamp yesterday and just noticed I never change it today. Oh well.   |
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Post by jackscrap on Apr 18, 2024 11:52:25 GMT
Peter Pan statue, Queens Garden, Perth, Western Australia   |
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Post by pontiac1940 on Apr 18, 2024 13:47:13 GMT
Took a ride to Sandy Hook this afternoon.... Cool to see ospreys. They are one of the widest spread species in the world. They feed almost exclusively in fish. It is found on all continents except Antarctica, although in South America it occurs only as a non-breeding migrant. |
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Post by BuckSkin on Apr 18, 2024 14:54:07 GMT
Well....., now that i've got a crick in my neck from laying my head over sideways to read all about him, just who was Peter Pan ? Did he discover Australia or what ?
Nice pictures and interesting bit of history. |
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Post by BuckSkin on Apr 18, 2024 14:57:04 GMT
it occurs only as a non-breeding migrant. |
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Post by hmca on Apr 18, 2024 15:26:31 GMT
Yes, there are numerous nests along the Jersey shore. We have a nest stand in Monmouth Beach that they return to every Spring. One day I may go over there and see what I can capture. My problem is that if they're not there when I go, I don't have the patience to hang around waiting for them to return to the nest. |
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Post by pontiac1940 on Apr 18, 2024 16:25:11 GMT
My problem is that if they're not there when I go, I don't have the patience to hang around waiting for them to return to the nest.  "Patience young Grasshopper." |
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Post by jackscrap on Apr 18, 2024 23:08:52 GMT
Well....., now that i've got a crick in my neck from laying my head over sideways to read all about him, just who was Peter Pan ? Did he discover Australia or what ?
Nice pictures and interesting bit of history. Ask your pretty offsider, she will know who Peter Pan is. |
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Post by jackscrap on Apr 18, 2024 23:11:25 GMT
Gigantic bubbles, some kind of light show apparently?   |
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Post by BuckSkin on Apr 19, 2024 13:42:12 GMT
I was at a tractor show and, for the kids, they had this big shallow pool and these kid-sized big see-thru balls.
They would zip the kid inside and inflate the ball once the kid was in there and then just shove him out in the pool.
The kid could run around like a hamster in a wheel and bump into each other and whatever.
My main thought was sooner or later the kid was going to get overcome with carbon-dioxide and just general bad rotten-milk breath and somebody was going to have to un-zip him or else he might succumb; of course, any kid I put in there would be packing a Buck and could cut his way out.Renfro Valley, Kentucky Saturday_07-October-2017  |
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Post by jackscrap on Apr 20, 2024 11:56:09 GMT
Tonight’s sunset from Fremantle, Western Australia. Quokka, small marsupial native to Rottnest Island.   |
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Post by pontiac1940 on Apr 20, 2024 15:43:11 GMT
Quokka, small marsupial native to Rottnest Island. Too cute. Size of a small cat? |
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"Patience young Grasshopper."