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 of tree swallows on the power lines leading out to Sea Breeze, an opportunity to photograph an osprey with a fish in its wicked talons from the bottom of the pole he was standing on in the marsh at Sea Breeze, an adult bald eagle sitting in a tree near Stow Creek, species of grasses and other plants we identified for the first time (thanks Russell Juelg for your botany course and persistence on the graminoids).
No traffic, virtually no one there except many fisherfolk on bridges and in out-of-the-way places with water access.
The elimination of houses and destruction of the sea wall at the south side of Sea Breeze was shocking evidence of Sandy’s power.
Pictures to follow after Ro sorts them out and applies labels.
What an interesting area - we marked several places we gotta revisit and hike.
We saw a hundred or more egrets clustered on the railings of the boardwalk at the end of Strawberry Ave. in Port Norris, thousands of tree swallows on the power lines leading out to Sea Breeze, an opportunity to photograph an osprey with a fish in its wicked talons from the bottom of the pole he was standing on in the marsh at Sea Breeze, an adult bald eagle sitting in a tree near Stow Creek, species of grasses and other plants we identified for the first time (thanks Russell Juelg for your botany course and persistence on the graminoids).
No traffic, virtually no one there except many fisherfolk on bridges and in out-of-the-way places with water access.
The elimination of houses and destruction of the sea wall at the south side of Sea Breeze was shocking evidence of Sandy’s power.
Pictures to follow after Ro sorts them out and applies labels.
What an interesting area - we marked several places we gotta revisit and hike.
