nice afternoon for a hike - did a double loop today
It's Fall in the Northeast #4
Still tying your shoes like a kid?!!
always double loop - hate to have to stop if they untie due to catching a branch
Hee hee - I do too.
Got some shots of late fall color here on Wednesday. Not much left. Pretty much all the trees at my place have lost all their leaves except for a red oak in front whose leaves are still hanging on. Did a lot of yard and garden clean-up today and yesterday. It looks really nice, and it's nice to know that no more leaves with be falling in most of the yard.
Karen
I don't know what kind of tree this is. Perhaps an ash.
I took several shots of this gorgeous Bradford Pear. They are late to change, apparently, and really great color on them. Here's the first one.
A close shot with the lamp post.
Vertical shot...
Close shot of the foliage with the building.
And here's a few shots of just the leaves. #1
#2
and #3....
Last, but not least, a picture taken on Thurs. of a mulberry tree in Plymouth, MA.
Nice shots, Karen. Bradfords have great color, but they're a disaster.
Beautiful, Karen. The colour is so intense.
Victor, why are they a disaster?
They split from wind and ice when they get larger. Unfortunately, urban planners all over the US have used them before this was widely known.
Very intense, such a beautiful red!! Thanks for sharing Karen!
Karen, guess you don't remember what happened to me in June.
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1003132/
I have one pear left but not a Bradford, last one with leaves.
Visit to a farm today really neat, had a bunch of different play areas for the kids, indoor and outdoor.
Baby chicks
They had a walking trail and toward the back had the family cemetary plot from the 1800's... just had the intials on the markers
Thanks, guys!
I didn't know about that happening to your pears, Jen. I took a break from the coffee break thread over the summer, as I just had too much to do and didn't have enough time to keep up with all the threads, too. That's a shame. Your surviving pear looks nice. Good it's not a Bradford.
Karen
the blue birds where back again
they seemed to be very interested
who doesn't like a blue bird?
very cool Bill... I have never seen any around here
I didnt know they wintered over.
Aww, lucky you Bill, I rarely see them!
Hi Pixi
There are fields around this area but if there are BB's I dont see them.
The development where I live has lots of conifers as landscaping for the boundries of the properties.
We have lots of crows, chickadees, nuthatches,finches,titmice,wood peckers and a few hawks.
The field birds are scarce.
Morning Ge, we are lucky enough to have several families of eagles living on the lake.
I get to see them on a regular basis but I need a good zoom lens for my camera or they just look like black blobs! lol
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Surprised to see them this late in the year.
There are bald eagles on one of the lakes near here. Its a project from Cornell U.
I have seen them on tours and events like that.
We do have Mountain Lions too, even though they say they are extinct in this area. I know for a fact they are wrong, DH is working on documented evidence to prove it. Just 10 days a go he sat and watched one for 15 minutes. He had both a high powered rifle scope and binoculars they he and a friend watched it through. Both described it as gray and blending in with the rock wall at times, long tail and weighing approx. 80 - 90 lbs. Both men were sitting in the truck, one used a bleet(doe call) to lure it closer....it prowled the woodline of the field until it up almost behind where DH was parked . It came within 200 yards of them before my husband threatened to throw his friend out and feed it if he didn't stop with the doe call!
Now he needs to get it on film, collect hair and scat sample and he'll be able to prove it. He didn't have a camera on him at the time but now he carries one with him every time he ventures out into the woods. However, catching it on film maybe be harder than getting the samples. lol
What does a doe bleet sound like.?
I think I have heard one crossing our lawn at night or early morning.
The sound is similar to a cat crying with a short sound repeated three or four times.
They call it a 'bleet' because thats what a deer does, bleets. Almost like a sheep goes Baaa.
So if I build a blue bird mansion like Wha's amazing ones, they might come? Too cool. I hope you post those pictures over in the bird forum.
Interesting about the Mt. Lions, and them not believing in the reality of them being there. Of course they are there.
Years before the wolf was reintroduced to Yellowstone we went out for a couple of weeks in Jan and saw a wolf. We watched it for over an hour. It was clearly a wolf. I have seen wolves all my life, every summer in Canada and was able to watch them at close range at a wolf study station in Algonquin Park for many summers. My husband had observed them out west and also in northern Canada on many occasions too. We both had seen coyotes all our lives too, so there was no chance that we didn't know the difference in size, color, gate, and the difference in their legs, but we were told that we were dead wrong, unless we brought it in dead. Not likely to do that. Of course we didn't have the camera with us that day as it was about 20 below and we knew we wouldn't be taking our gloves off to take pictures. Dang.
thx ladies - the bb shots were on the edge of optical/digital zoom and not great - i was surprised i got them after seeing them. patti i am not a visitor to the bird forum have enough here to keep up with:) iris i was surprised to see them too although i think they over winter now for some reason i believe i saw them outside a country restaurant down the street from me in their fields.
celeste i swear i saw a mt. lion here on a dead tree that is in the pond in my backyard. this was 10 years ago - i tried to get a picture and when i just creaked the slider to the deck it leaped a good 25' onto the shore and was gone into the woods - i had watched it for about 10 minutes before going for the camera - it just sat there like a big cat cleaning itself - it had grey/brown coloring long tail, as long as it's body with black tip - no one around here believed me although there were numerous sightings that summer and the since.
I watch the daily pics on bird forum. Also bluebird & titmouse pics as well as a beautiful thread covering an osprey nest in Australia. There are other thread there which I don't watch.
Exactly Bill, many people have witnessed this beautiful cat but until we have proof they snicker at you when you report it.
Pixie, Not me, people like you who, spend so much time in a garden ought to be believed. I don't think many things in nature are not observed with a creditable eye by an avid bird watcher, gardener, hunter, fisherman or hiker. So if someones habit is doing any of those things and they report an odd observance with clarity, I am a believer.
Those kind of people observe what is, not what it is suppose to be according to the books. Yes, I believe in Nessie too!
Mountain lions are so seen these days, but under believed as some people of authority would like them not to be in their neighborhood. My DH dad raised an orphaned one in Belmont Ma in the 30's as his father shot the mother out west, AZ, and then found the cub, oops. They brought the cub east and then I don't know what happened to it when it got too big for Belmont. Maybe they moved him to South China Maine or Pepperell Ma. Here, kitty kitty kitty. I have never seen one in the wild, but we did have a nice Bobcat at our brook in Vt a few years back. No mistaking the two for a domestic cat, ever. Patti
bobcats here as well, although i have never seen one - there were sightings in westford that were laughed at by officials until a home owner came in with a pretty long video of one in his yard - and in townsend a co-worker of my wife's whose yard abuts the town forest has hunting camera stills of bobcats and bears - no mt. lions though.