This Weekend at Stafford Forge

[glowordz]

Beautiful bladderwort vistas! I had to go look them up--to see a single flower--and was surprised to find that they're carnivorous. Our laurels have finished blooming, one of my favorites, so it's nice to see the cheerful faces on yours. And I especially like the dewberry shot--the way you caught its delicate shadows. Thanks once again.

Glo

 

[PancoastDrifter]

Some catching up here... enjoy.

Thanks for looking and enjoying the beauty of the pines. ;-)

 

[lakesgirl]

absolutely beautiful!!!!! thank you!

 

[bobpbx]

Great stuff Pancoast--every one of them! I like the black bird. If you look you can tell the tree is leaning away from you at the top (at least it appears to me).

 

[turtle]

Boy, that hawk is eyeing you up! What an ecclectic mix of beauty from every angle..... I think I'm drawn to the weightlessness of the dragonfly pic and the endless sea of stars at the end. It reminds me that I'll be camping for the meteor showers in August....

Thanks, turtle

 

[Teegate]

I'll have you know the last one does not show the pines, but somewhere out there let us hope there is a place just as nice. I really appreciate the photo's and how well they turned out. Very nice!


Guy

 

[PancoastDrifter]

Thanks everyone.

 

[Teegate]

This group was especially nice in my mind. Driving though your town yesterday I was thinking that I have been missing your photo's on the site as of late, but a pleasant surprise awaited me when I arrived home. We do have a group of individuals here who really make the visual aspect of the barrens come alive, and you are one of them.

Guy

 

[PancoastDrifter]

I was out at the northern most lake in Stafford Forge yesterday and I see a repeat of the levy failure about to happen at that lake in the next year... The culverts are still functioning but the snags and logs in the way are a sign the culverts will soon be clogged and undermined. The only benefit I see is it will cut off one of the party spots where trash and empties are a huge stain on the natural wonder. Yet that cuts off the area to me and other nature minded people that I don't like... :-(

I saw this bird land on a hawks back yesterday at that lake and give it a good pecking... you can just see his head while he is 'riding' in the right picture.

 

[PancoastDrifter]

Brawr!

 

[bobpbx]

Brawr!

First-rate! I can smell the cedar water.

 

[PancoastDrifter]

Brisk icy morning at Stafford Forge.

The irony burns.

Father & Son - Paint effect

 

[Teegate]

I loved them all except the second from last

Guy

 

[bobpbx]

That first one is a Juvenile Eagle? What is the other bird, a partridge?

 

[PancoastDrifter]

The first and second are a juvenile Bald Eagle. The other is a female Northern Bobwhite according to Bachmans Ivory.

 

[woodjin]

What a gift you have. Loved looking at these amazing photos.

 

[woodjin]

I don't see glossy ibis's that often. Does he/she return to that same spot often?

 

[PancoastDrifter]

That is actually a White Faced Ibis. There were maybe ten in groups of two and three this year at Great Bay. But I did see one alone at Stafford Forge.

 

[glowordz]

I think the fishing sequence panels are interesting, but the Bobwhite shot is remarkable for its elegance--a lovely bird set in spun-silver grasses.

Thank you for these and many other beauties through the year!


Glo

 

[bobpbx]

I think the fishing sequence panels are interesting, but the Bobwhite shot is remarkable for its elegance--a lovely bird set in spun-silver grasses. Glo

I agree. And to be even more precise (but much less poetic)... a lovely bird set in Schizachyrium scoparium, Euthamia tenuifolia, and Panicum virgatum.