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Gloria, I don't think Alfie was fishing for a bite, here. As a matter of fact, it appears he was offering me a compliment ... probably the second time in his life this has happened. Al didn't think it was possible to capture in photographs the essence of the size of the trees in Bear Swamp...

I shot almost 200 photos today. Only 50 made the cut here. Ha! Thanks, Gloria & Guy, for the compliments. We paid quite a physical price getting where we got. Alfie, we're not environmental wackos. People hug and kiss trees all the time ... especially those who have been married a long...

third time out It's all about the trees ...

Look, we're over complicating this. (Alfie, you can give yourself a colonoscopy with that useless varve buster, for all I care). All the guy has to do is get his tush out of bed and join me on these excursions. He knows I won't remember to use my GPS (believe it or not, the ol' Triton was in...

No! No! No! I didn't appeal to Darwin. I didn't appeal to anybody (besides you, and a lot of help that turned out to be). Here's the deal ... I crawled over the remains of several others who failed to find their way out of the swamp. I made it! I'm the fittest! I live to propagate! Me and...

The Old Earth Darwinist (reflected above) phoned the Young Earth Creationist this morning ... "Alfie!" Silence. "Alfie?" "It's three o'clock in the morning, Whip. Why are you calling?" "Alfie! I forgot to mention to you that I was getting up early this morning to do some field...

Hard to believe less than a week ago several inches of snow was being dumped on the area. But it's March. The songbirds are singing. I'll be spending the next scheduled dawn (tomorrow morning ...heh-heh) secluded in Penn Swamp listening to these guys, and watching darkness wane. This, if I...

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Thanks, Alfie. I bet I could find the holly on my own. I keep forgetting I had a GPS running in my pocket on Tuesday. All it would take is to follow our track, backwards, right? :) (I might raise my swamp tour-guide fee to eight bucks!) Thanks, Spung-Man ... for the burl info, for your...

Hi Jim, Just flicking back over the thread here and saw your unanswered question. Sorry I didn't respond to this before; mid to late week is a busy time for me. Here's another photo of the growth you mentioned. We came across this during the final leg of the trip on Tuesday. The...

Drive and passion rewarded; how many times I've seen this. Congratulations, HawkinNative; these photographs are stunning.

Toity tollahs? Tat sounds expensif! Alfie sez he'll lead a tour for $14.95 (plus shipping and handling). I'll do it for $6.95 (proceeds going to my personal TastyKake Acquisition Fund). Why am I charging so much less? Because I'll need your help finding the way out. Whip

Bear Swamp redux There are a lot of photos below. Also, I've linked them from Photobucket, so they're larger than normal. Still, believe it or not, these total less than a third taken this morning in Cumberland County's Bear Swamp. Since the photos are so many, I'll keep the words few...

COMING SOON TO A FORUM THREAD NEAR YOU!!!! Alfie and Whip starring in ... BEAR SWAMP, CUMBERLAND COUNTY ... THE SEQUEL Lost in the 6,000 year old Swamp of Doom!!! Sorry ... Guy has hyped me up for the challenge. Figured a little marketing wouldn't hurt! :)

Thanks, Glo (how will I know your owl? :))... and everybody else. It's official; Bear Swamp expedition two is on for Tuesday. Al promises a much wetter track to the center. Hopefully he'll let me ride on his shoulders.

This batch didn't do it for me at first, Alfie. But I've spent a lot of time re-looking, and they're sinking in, deep. For the relatively few hours we spent back there, the swamp made a massive impression on me. I'm thinking your big holly island this Tuesday coming. Your call. Thanks for...

The Bear Swamp was penetrated late Sunday afternoon by one Whip-(the earth is 6,000 years old)-persnapper and one Whip-(add several billion years to that number, please)-poorbill, the latter laden with recording equipment (and as heavily hyped) as an attempt to locate nesting and happily hooting...

Incredible photo. I mean, really, really incredible. Thanks for sharing the great shots and info, 46er. The best great-horned owl recording I got last year was pre-dawn (I usually don't head out at dusk, as aircraft traffic is heavy and spoils recordings), late summer, at a Laurel Lake game...

It's amazing how political the global-warming issue became. Guess we can blame Al Gore for this? I used to listen with astonishment to the conservative radio talk show Big Three (Glenn, Rush, and Sean) and hear repeatedly that man-enhanced global warming was nothing but a bunch of liberal...