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Thank you all ! This a truly hilarious thread! Dave

Brandon- That's a superlative shot of the red salamander! Way to go! I turned over untold hundreds of logs, boards, cement slabs, flat rocks, and other such stuff in damp regions of the pines over the years, and saw lots of neat creatures, but never saw a red salamander! I must...

Yesiree! The top predator in the skunk's nightmare pantheon of deadly enemies is the great horned owl GHO). Fact: the skunk is one of the major wildlife species that commonly is a reservior of rabies virus. A little known facet of that predator-prey relationship is that the GHO is the only bird...

Izzat a '38 Pontiac with a rumble seat?

>Oh yeah; I do remember that. I scratched them off my menu as well ... Damn. I lied - forgot, actually. I DID partake of the edible portions of a 6-foot monitor lizard during a stay in Singapore. It was trapped at the Jurong Bird Park where it had been predating the nestlings of several...

The white foci / globules in the skin of the ears are schizonts (a stage of asexual reproduction) of a protozoon parasite known as Besnoitia darlingi. Some individual 'possums have the parasitic nodules only in the thin, lightly haired or hairless skin of the ears, lips, eyeids, and/or toe...

My bet is on the "yellow-and-black" or "Golden" Garden Spider - a species that produces a large, radially arranged web in a generally vertical plane (not an orb weaver). I can't recall the genus for sure, but I think it's pretty close to "Agriopus" or something that sounds much like that...

Hey Dave, I had to wonder if your Dad hadn't come acrossed this road in his travels. Jeff- I'd sure like to think he did, but in fact, of course, I've no idea... But I'd be real eager to see some pics of that corduroy road if you get around to taking them ! Dave

Damn! I meant to delete that paragraph on Gresley copied from a website. Now they'll sue my a--. Krap! Fudge! Dave

In Britain a locomotive has a "driver" rather than an "engineer". The engineer of a locomotive is the gent who designed the thing, not he who drove it. As it happens, the engineer of the Mallard was Sir Herbet Nigel Gresley. Now ... if we spell his name backwards we get "Yelserg Legin...

Copyright; of course. That makes sense. Shoulda thought twice! Thanks,Boyd, Dave

Anything wrong with just posting a text file of the article here? Dave

Vertebrates consumed by the bullfrog include: deermouse (and several other spp. of mice), field vole, moles,several spp. of shrews, small snakes, small birds. If it can be caught and swallowed, the bullfrog'll eat it. During a capture-mark-release project on bullfrogs I saw one caught that was...

Great shot! Is that some sort of green, winged insect the second frog is focused on? And did he get it? Dave

Steve- Aserdaten (a Dave) and I - uuglypher - (a Dave) are two different "Daves". I'd suspect that he and I are approximate contemporaries. I'm vintage '39, howzabout you, Aserdaten Dave? And Guy, as far as the spelling of "Verich's" goes, no, I'm not absolutely certain of the spelling...

Jeff wrtote: "What was most interesting was that he was completely motionless on the surface, almost like he was lying on ice or glass. No part of his body was submerged. I had no idea they had that kind of buoyancy. When I see common watersnakes, they usually just have their heads above water...

I hope you'll agree that this qualifies to be posted here, as it does relate to a possibly forgotten place. In the early 50's, when I was a kid and my folks and I would vacation on Long Beach Island we would make occassional forays onto the mainland to "...go to "Verich's" " an ice...

I'd say that the lake did exist, but ... one hot August night ... (much like this one will be ...) the air redolent of pine ... and glowing faintly, here-and-there, with swamp lights ... the Leed's Devil drank it up... and sucked the very sand dry ... Sweet dreams, my little ones ...

http://forums.njpinebarrens.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=331&pos=7 Can you believe that people on the right bank have to live with this view? Indeed! Just tragic ! Y'd think there'd be a guv'mint program to relieve their sufferin'...