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You will be fine. There is one set of bogs (which happens to be the prime recording location in the entire state forest) that is technically off-limits; this has caused me to do some haggling with rangers the past couple of trips there. A problem with partying kids is to blame for the...

Back to the beautiful road leading to Sea Breeze, planning on a late afternoon to dusk near-bayside bird recording. I only managed to set up the gear and take a few photos ... ... when Alfie called. I'd mentioned I was going to be wandering about and was planning on some frog...

I didn't do anything to the photos, I swear! They're mussed up because your high heels kept kicking water back and onto my lens. Whip PS Finally, a couple of the photos taken of the vernal pond we visited last Tuesday. Al and I both preferred the vernal swamp (post #51 on previous page)...

"Wha's around dat bend, Alfie?" "Oh ..."

I drove all the way down to the kangaroo once, brought along my wife and kids, toting recording gear, promised them all sorts of wild sounds. It was early spring. The southeast promptly got a cold snap and I didn't hear a whisper in the entire swamp my entire time there (besides the boys...

Yakmak, Yeah. That's Herman City. The cemetery photos were taken downstream from Herman City. I'm don't know where Marigold is located. :( Thanks, Guy. I keep a polarizing filter on the camera almost all the time (night photography being the main exception). It protects my lenses...

Alfie is checking out what appears to be a nest in the top of the large tree. We were unable to determine what made it. It was green, fresh, and seemed to be unoccupied.

Alfie is a compulsive fabricator. The stone is Benbrusets and we were in Brick Twp. all day.

They beat me into the earth, too, Alfie. But we both know that there are great rewards to be found in challenges. Aren't those vernal ponds more beautiful after we've brushbeat through the world's worst briar patches to reach them? Whip

Follow me on this one, g. You put the same amount of passion into the People/Places posts I've read here on the forum as McPhee does in his essays. I think you'd find him to be a kindred spirit.

Haven't had a chance to sit down and look at all them, Alfie. Freddy needed the computer to do a project last night. Figured I'd look at a few and post them while it was timely. I'll try to get some others up this weekend. Whip

Bwa-ha-ha-ha! Out they go again! vernal pond search ... yay! woo hoo! pipe dream stone search ... boooooooo! thanks for putting up

Guy, Will yours go back? :) I was about to title my thread "Sunday in the Pines with the Wife!" but saw I'd been scooped. Guess it was a weekend for rare events. Anyway, my wife loves nature, but spends almost no time enjoying it. She's a horse nut. It's all she does, horses; all her...

Ha! Love it!

More! More! Is that being selfish?

My son (foot on ball) had a soccer game in Medford today. After a nice victory, I volunteered to give Mrs. Whip and Lil' Whip a tour of my favorite place on earth (as we were so close). I think it took a while for the beauty to win the pair over; Mrs. Whip lives in a horse world, Lil' Whip in...

Hmmmm ... funny you should mention; Limbaugh is on the cover of the current New Yorker, pictured as a baby, crying. Should clarify that the non-stolen stones in my truck (the mention of stolen stones on the forum might cause suspicion) come from my driveway... They weigh down a tarp that...

Great writing sends me. John McPhee is a living legend. He's been a regular contributor to The New Yorker and much of what has been published in his 27 books I've read there first. Another piece authored by McPhee has appeared in the current issue of the magazine, and the man's writing...

Not sure why I'm posting this here, but this is the thread I think of when I listen to what I mention below. I've been listening to an audio version of To See Every Bird on Earth: A Father, a Son, and a Lifelong Obsession, by Dan Koeppel, which has prompted me to wonder if any of the...