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Last Friday Bernie Knaupp, Ro, and I went birding at Oyster Creek/Leeds Point, Brigantine/Forsythe NWR, and Great Bay Blvd. Saw/they photoed Snowy Owl, Eagles, etc. Views from Brig showed drastic changes in surroundings from Hurricane Sandy, Fish Factory in particular. Took following picture...

Picked up at Costco/Moorestown a copy of "On the Map" by Simon Garfield. Interesting read about history of maps and cartography. From its inside cover: "A mind-expanding exploration of the way the world looks". Very informational.

Earlier this week Ro and I were doing our "try every road to the Bay" bit down near Cape May. We ran out the road to Reed's Beach at its end at Bidwell Creek, saw this stone and just had to share its picture.

This past weekend Ro & I were privileged to be taken on a tour of Featherbed Lane and Mannington Marsh by Karl Anderson and his wife. While not in the Pines, these places are in West Jersey Province. Saw roosting Bald Eagles, maybe a White Fronted Goose, several Harriers, and up close a pair of...

Used "Search" on this site but came up empty. While going north Ro & I did a "Uey" on 539 about a mile south of Webbs Mill when we saw all the flags and the newly repainted stone. Really a wonder, someone spent a lot of effort (and money) to show honor for our Flag. Who? Anyone know how that...

Today Ro and I drove the paved road to the north off NJ72 just east of the sand pit and 72/539 intersection. After a few miles it ended as it ran - pine woods on both sides. Came home and checked some maps: one showed "Howardsville" at about where we turned west on a sand trail and got to 539...

My wife Ro took this picture last week, following its dedication ceremony a couple of weeks ago. It's located on top of the observation tower at the north part of the preserve.

Thanks to a recent posting on this site, there's a map of NJ showing property lines all over the state. The map shows zillions of little lots from Chatsworth north to NJ 72, most without listed owners. Was this to be a super-big development that never happened? When were the subdivisions...

Saturday tour report. Spiranthes at Bill Haines’ have spread to west side of the road. Map (new to me) in Batsto Visitors Center shows extent of Wharton’s planned Pine Barrens water supply system for Philadelphia. Would’ve involved massive changes. Park Road Spiranthes in bloom and in new area...

Another great day in the Pines. Ro & I inventoried plants on one of our botany test sites on the Franklin Parker Preserve, then we met Mark Szutarski and Ann Cavanaugh and identified plants on a section of the Rte 563 shoulder. This evening Ro & I went to Whitesbog, photographing the sunset...

Spent an exceedingly interesting day in the Pines today. A Philadelphia Botanical Club outing, most ably led by Joel Fry and Bill Cahill, abetted by Old Town Hunter, Mark Szutarski, Bill Bolger, visited the areas John Bartram used in his collecting of plants and seeds back in the mid to late...

Ro and I went for a walk in the Pines below Friendship this afternoon. Took a trail we last used 25+ years ago. Trail end at abandoned bogs (Bulls Branch) completely overgrown - frustrating but still a good jaunt. Used to continue and walk the bog dikes. Passed large dump in woods with old...

Came back to the house a few minutes ago (8:30 pm) and heard what sounded like very, VERY, loud crickets in the bushes around the house. Went inside, listened to frog calls on a website and found Hyla squirella, Squirrel Tree Frog, that sounded the same. But... Hyla squirella range supposed to...

This doesn't fit "Nature" but stretching it puts it in "Environoment". Was checking Google Earth for area we were in and found a jet was far below in 01 Jun 2011 shot from the satellite: 39 degrees 18' 24.45" N 74 degrees 52' 02.28" W by their coordinates. There's an interesting...

Ro & I spent the past Saturday and Sunday investigating every side road we could find that lead to the Delaware Bay shore between Bivalve and the PSEG power plant. We saw a hundred or more egrets clustered on the railings of the boardwalk at the end of Strawberry Ave. in Port Norris, thousands...

Spent today roamin' by car and booted foot in the Pines with Ro and neighbor Lori Cronin - Batsto River savannahs, Quaker Bridge, Lower Forge, Hampton Furnace, Carranza Memorial, Friendship, Speedwell, Chatsworth, home. Lots of sand trail miles, pines, cedars, bushes, rare orchids and other...

Just had to post and share a huge disappointment. This morning Ro and I took a neighbor out to the Rancocas Conservancy's Coleman's Bridge trail to see/photograph plants known to be there. Lespediza (cuneata?, asian invasive) and an invasive, alien grass, have completely swamped the trail and...

This morning on our way south on US 206 we saw that the signs and traffic cones were gone that all last week blocked the entrance to Hampton Road. The signs restricted passage to official vehicles only. So we turned in Hampton Road. Badly rutted and many water holes. At Hampton Furnace the...

Today we came north on South Park Road from Route 532. South of the farmstead on the east side of the road, both shoulders had been mowed very close to the ground for quite some distance. Why???? We were looking to see what might be coming up at a couple of wet spots, but they'd been mowed...

This morning Ro, her son Jim, and I went to Parker Preserve to monitor our two botany test sites. While there Ro spotted a great horned owl sitting on a hummock in a bog near the dike road; it appeared sick or hurt. There were feathers around it. We called Dr. Emil De Vito, Manager Natural...