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Old 03-02-2011, 03:21 AM
 
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I heard, then saw the first flock of geese coming in to spend the night on a small eddy of the Lehigh River yesterday.

What a great sound - trumpeting the arrivial of SPRING !!!!

It was a hard, cold, (sometimes brutally cold) winter with thick heavy crusty snow that took it's toll and tested the determination and survival skills of many critters - both 2 legged & 4 legged.

But I like winter - don't know about the rest of you.

I shot this pic yesterday - which is a small lake located on SGL near my house. My dog drug me there for a walk.


Post up a wintry pic if you have one and share your story behind it.
(calling Mathrak - the best photog around IMO)....


Here's mine:

Moosehead Lake - located about a mile from the nearest paved road smack dab in the middle of SGL. This area is loaded with wildlife of all types - including a pair of otters that use the hillsides as their personal playground by creating slides that look like half-pipes the snowboarders use.

One of my favorite get-away and forget your problems place.
Price of admission - a few hundred calories burned via a walk along wooded trails.



In a couple of weeks the bird houses will be inhabited again, the frogs will be creeping, and the salamanders and other slimy critters will doing their thing in the many vernal pools in the area. The smell of new life will fill the air..

Dang, I wish Manny Gordon was still with us so he could shout "ENJOY ENJOY - THE GREAT OUTDOORS of NEPA".

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Just trying to liven up the place, so join in if you have a pic.
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Old 03-02-2011, 04:56 AM
 
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That is a really nice image! Good photography, VB!
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Old 03-02-2011, 05:16 AM
 
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Hi - I lurk in this forum sometimes, as NEPA is one of my favorite places anywhere. Spent many summers in the Honesdale area.

Nice picture, and I also applaud the coming of spring!
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Old 03-04-2011, 10:18 AM
 
Location: Pennsylvania
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I like winter too!

with the new upgrades, I haven't figured out how to post pics. Can't do it like I used to. Post pics, I mean.


maybe this weekend, I'll have time to figure it out.


I hate puter upgrades. sigh
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Old 03-04-2011, 12:06 PM
 
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I heard, then saw the first flock of geese coming in to spend the night on a small eddy of the Lehigh River yesterday.
Heard one go over the other night about 3 days ago, only ones I've heard.

I await the arrival of spring too, this was first year in my life in a house with oil heat and I'm not liking it all, really not much choice in the matter. I cringe everytime the thing goes on as I hear it sucking up another few bucks.

That will all change this spring and summer as the 30 year old Van Wert coal boiler from my old house will be installed.
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Old 03-04-2011, 12:53 PM
 
Location: Swiftwater, PA
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I heard a flock today. I hope that it is catching!

That groundhog promised us spring in a hurry - I expect him to deliver! I have had enough of the snow and ice. I want to start cleaning up my yard of all the branches from a hard winter. Can’t wait to cut the first new grass.
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Old 03-04-2011, 01:33 PM
 
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Taken last year when I wintered in Antarctica for the second time in the last three years. I'm standing on Cormorant Island looking back at Anvers Island, Mt. William is in the center-left. It's about a 5,200 ft. high peak.
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Old 03-04-2011, 06:26 PM
 
Location: Turning Point of the American Revolution
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The Geese 'winter over ' in my neck of the woods, they have a large golf course, a State run Dairy farm, State Park and Gameland, a large acred NJ Insurance 'Campus' as well as an equally large State School for the Deaf...all with ponds and feeder streams to the Delaware as well as the Delaware and Raritan Canal, a major breeding area.
They are already breaking into their mating prep...big Ganders squaring off and honking, flapping their wings, the girls acting all coy,
First real sign of Spring here is the Forsythia buds starting to swell in the Hollows facing southwest, and the first big splash this afternoon of a large Carp as I was walking my Dog along the Delaware and Raritan Canal around three this afternoon...Scared the 'bejeezus' out of both us us...just like it has for the last 11 years.
Life is good

Coalman and Fisheye et al. Enjoy the the impending Spring... Heading down to Island Beach State Park at the shore to get my yearly Beach Buggy/Fishing permit...I usually wait for 'Earth Day' in April, but I'm getting antsy after this loooong winter.

P.S. Coalman, wall paper is all removed...wasn't much, just a few feet above the tiled walls and behind the toilet and 'female' toliet... thanks for the tip.

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Old 03-04-2011, 07:25 PM
 
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A friend of mine said that she has been seeing flocks of snow geese lately heading North, Northeast. I told her that I'm so used to hearing and seeing Canadian Geese that it never occurred to me that there could be snow geese going over. She said to listen for them around 5 pm in the first part of this month. She was right about hearing geese at that time, but so far all I see are the Canadian ones, not the snow geese. I have seen huge flocks of the Snow geese in corn fields near by parents house is South Jersey but would love to see them in the air.
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Old 03-04-2011, 07:46 PM
 
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A friend of mine said that she has been seeing flocks of snow geese lately heading North, Northeast. I told her that I'm so used to hearing and seeing Canadian Geese that it never occurred to me that there could be snow geese going over. She said to listen for them around 5 pm in the first part of this month. She was right about hearing geese at that time, but so far all I see are the Canadian ones, not the snow geese. I have seen huge flocks of the Snow geese in corn fields near by parents house is South Jersey but would love to see them in the air.
The Geese you are referencing are called Canada Geese not Canadian.
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