After the first January snowfall, my wife and I walked around the Celery Farm, photographing locales -- some easily identified, some difficult.
They form a series of Monday Morning Mysteries. Diehard Celery Farmers should get most of these, but some ain't easy. This is the last one.
Where in the Celery Farm are we?
Clue follows.
After the first January snowfall, my wife and I walked around the Celery Farm, photographing locales -- some easily identified, some difficult.
They form a new series of Monday Morning Mysteries. Diehard Celery Farmers should get most of these, but some ain't easy.
Where in the Celery Farm are we?
The answers this week: The kiosk at the Franklin Turnpike parking lot, the bridge at the Franklin Turnpike parking lot, and the Cattails below the Pirie Platform... (Close enough, Barbara!)
After the first January snowfall, my wife and I walked around the Celery Farm, photographing locales -- some easily identified, some difficult.
They form a new series of Monday Morning Mysteries. Diehard Celery Farmers should get most of these, but some ain't easy.
Where in the Celery Farm are we?
Bonus: A toughie, below!
My latest "Bird Watcher" column in The Record and Herald News is on simple ways you can reduce hawk attacks at your feeders -- providing some cover to reducing the likelihood of birds flying into your windows.
The link is here.
At right, my backyard Cooper's Hawk.
“Survival,” the story of the endangered Red-shouldered Hawks of Allendale, is now available as a download for iPads, iPhones and and iPod Touches.
The eBook is a 70-page, full-color book about a family of hawks who have battled long odds to nest in Allendale for more than a decade.
The download costs $2.99, with half the proceeds going to benefit The Raptor Trust, one of the nation’s leading avian rehabilitation centers.
The Raptor Trust saved the life of a Red-shouldered hawk named Laura, the main protagonist of the book, who had been found dazed on an Allendale lawn four years ago.
“Survival” was created by Jim Wright and Jerry Barrack, authors of several books ton Alendale’s Celery Farm nature refuge.
The beautifully illustrated book includes a chapter on the Red-shoulders’ courtship flight, a first-person account of what it’s like to host a red-shoulder nest, and a reprinted chapter on red-shoulders from the classic 1898 book “Birds that Hunt and Birds that Are Hunted.”
You can download the an iBook version of “Survival” for your iPad or iPhone at http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2677163 or just do a search for blurb.com and “allendale” and “survival.” You can also view a 15-page preview of the book.
Earlier post on the book is here.
After the first January snowfall, my wife and I walked around the Celery Farm, photographing locales -- some easily identified, some difficult.
The photo above was from No Name Culvert, where Julie McCall photographed the Muskrat this past weekend. The bench below is known as Carlos' Bench, and it overlooks Phairs Pond.
After the first January snowfall, my wife and I walked around the Celery Farm, photographing locales -- some easily identified, some difficult.
They form a new series of Monday Morning Mysteries. Diehard Celery Farmers should get most of these, but some ain't easy.
Where in the Celery Farm are we?
Julie McCall writes: "Saw this muskrat from No Name Culvert this morning, sitting on the ice and munching on something for a bit before jumping into the water and swimming off.
"Seems like I often hear people wondering where the muskrats are, so I snapped a picture."
Thanks, Julie! A lot of us have been concerned that we haven't seen any muskrat huts this winter. This is good news.
