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Neat observation. Jeff ! Although I never saw a pine snake IN the water, I did see a smallish-to-middling one in the talons of an osprey just after being snatched from the surface of Wading River. The Osprey didn't know what he'd gotten himself into. Any self-respecting osprey should have...

Identify this toad? If I'm not mistaken, that's Clyde; I almost missed that it was him without his signature eye-patch! Dave

Check with the pet store and find out what they are feeding their crickets. Some get shipments of refrigerated wild crickets, and some get 'em from cricket breeders who feed them crumbled catfood or dog food. Wild crickets are sometimes inadequate in their calcium and/or vitamin D3 content...

Willow's beautiful! I'm a retired vet with a particular soft spot for Danes ... particularly Harlequins. Dave

Yeah, I agree that the black rat snakes can be of unpredictable behavior. There was a big "pilot black" that I once caught at a copperhead den in Connecticut when the denners were just emerging and sunning at the densite in early May. He was really feisy and a challange to catch and was the...

Well, I checked out the Olympus c-725 and from your pics I'm really impressed with its tele (8x optical) and it maco abilities. Looks like a great buy for someone who wants to move up from a low megapixel oldie and doesn't need to make photo quality prints much larger than 5x7 or maybe up to...

Yeah, Brandon; those are great shots ... so were those of the squirrel ... For a guy humbly "... trying to improve (his) technique..." you certainly have caught on surprisingly well to controlling depth-of-field to isolate your subject from its background. I think you've quite a bit more...

Pink eyes and white hair/fur do not (alone) an albino make! There has to be a complete absence of melanin everywhere in the body. One site that often disqualifies a generally white, pink-eyed animal from coveted albino status are the ungual skin (the skin of the claws, talons, hooves) which...

I wonder, Guy, how many folks, like myself, live out-of-state and sufficiently far as not to be able to make it, even though we'd certainly like to. I was actually thinking about moving up an anticipated trip east up by a couple of months to be able to get to the picnic, but the logistics and...

I think so, but you'll never find out for sure 'til you enter it! Do it! Worst that can happen is that they'll tell you to keep at it! Dave

Super shots! Way to go, Brandon! Dave

Yeah, Bob; i pretty much remember anything I've ever read, or maybe just that I've read it ... 'cept that which I've forgotten ... or forgotten that I've read .... Hell, right now... I'm havin' trouble rememberin' how this sentence started ...? Dave

I appreciate the feedback! As for roads that become ribbed due to traffic, the road and highway engineers usually used the term "corrugated" for them. Seen best on gravel and sand roads and has something to do with vehicle speed, harder rather than softer tires, and "saltation" of...

Jeff- "Corduroy road" - Now there's a term that rings a bell from my Dad's discourses! So the extant ones don't really date back to revolutionary times! No good reason that they should, I suppose. The need for a means of traversing and improving a track thru spongy, boggy, soft, wet ground...

Among the tales I heard as a kid of my Dad's wanderings in the pines in the 20s was mention of he and his Toms River friends (Bart Havens and Joe Citta) having come across some stretches of what he called "timbered roads." I can't remember if they were in a Model-T or a Model-A, but the report...

Thanks, Guy, for the link to the article about Wasiowich. Years after the summer I worked on the cranberry bogs I read McPhee's accounts of him and remember thinking at the time that he and I would have been close to contemporaries. And I have wondered, from time to time, what became of him and...

early pix of Pinehurst-wald Bob- Great pix of the early development of the Pinehurst/Pinewald area. I'm still being amazed at the resources available on this site. Ben and others have done, and continue to do, one helluva job! Many thanks, Dave

Come to think of it, John McPhee's collected essays on the Pine Barrens (most, as I recall, having first appeared in the New Yorker) was on my son's reading list in Jr High when we lived in Iowa. It was entitled ... wait for it ... could you have guessed... "The Pine Barrens"? When my son...