tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63895943141354733792024-03-17T23:03:50.368-04:00In Forest and FieldThe observations and opinions of a life-long naturalist.Woody Meristemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17042498252608254901noreply@blogger.comBlogger557125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389594314135473379.post-17642960535122594052024-03-13T07:36:00.000-04:002024-03-13T07:36:04.748-04:00Free Eats<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>The
post from two weeks ago, <i>Dinner is Served</i>, featured the videos from a
camera trap’s the first week at the carcass of a white-tailed deer
that had apparently been killed by a bolt from a crossbow.</b></span></p>
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I checked most recently the carcass had been moved and a lot of
rain had fallen. The wetland vegetation was flattened where the
carcass had been dragged off – Oh Boy thought I, there would be
videos of a bear or eastern coyote (other than humans or large dogs
the only creatures in the area capable of dragging the carcass away)
feeding on or dragging the dead deer. I followed the drag mark and
found what was left of the carcass in the water. Not much remained, the large bones, rib cage and most of the head. </b></span>
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<p style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Checking
the camera I found a multitude of videos of the red fox; actually two
red fox, one readily distinguished by a mange-caused bare spot at the
base of its tail. And a few really poor videos of an opossum and two
raccoons feeding on the far side of the carcass. But there was no video of the carcass being removed. I</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>t seems the camera malfunctioned at the most critical time </b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>– Murphy's Law at work.</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b> </b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Nonetheless there
were some interesting videos –</b></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>The
ravens are probably a mated pair that nest on a nearby high ridge
and regularly visit the valley. Ravens are omnivores, eating
virtually anything edible. They eat waste grain and earthworms, are predators on small mammals and
birds and regularly scavenge other predators’ kills. I’ve watched
them flying along highways searching for roadkilled animals and they
often follow large predators or hunters to share in the
booty. </b></span>
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<p style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Bald
eagles, although they primarily feed on fish, are active
predators of small and medium-sized mammals and medium-sized birds
and also readily scavenge from carcasses.</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>As
for the great horned owl, it apparently didn’t feed on the carcass
but might have considered an opossum a suitable meal.</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>While
I was very happy to get videos of the ravens, owl and eagle, in some
ways the most interesting and indeed the most humorous were several
videos of the man and his pets – especially the goat. Have you
ever seen anyone walking with a goat as they would a dog?</b></span></p>
Woody Meristemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17042498252608254901noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389594314135473379.post-31146187167887866392024-03-06T07:42:00.003-05:002024-03-06T22:09:42.798-05:00Beneath the Leaves<p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>This has been an extremely
warm winter – the lowest temperature in January was 9° F – with
very little snow, and what snow we got didn’t last long before
melting. One day in early February, when there was no snow to be seen
at the house and it was 50</b><b>°F</b><b>,
I repeated an exercise I’d done several years ago (</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><i><a href="https://forestandfield.blogspot.com/2022/03/just-peek.html">see it here</a></i></span><b>)</b><b>.
Out to the woodland behind the house I went and gathered a handful of
fallen and decaying leaves. Into a white plastic basin they went and
back into the house I went with basin in hand.</b></span></p><p></p>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>There, with plenty of
light, I used two precision tweezers and a hand lens to sort through the leaves and
seeds and earthworm casts to search out the small creatures that live
among, and feast on, the forest’s debris and on other small creatures
beneath the leaves.</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Since the temperature had
been a bit below freezing a few days earlier and the ground was without an
insulating covering of snow I was surprised by some of the things I
found.</b></span></p>
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Centipedes, speedy predators of even smaller creatures that live in
the forest floor. They were of different sizes and shades of tan –</b></span></p>
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were among the leaves. I couldn’t identify them but assume they
feed on decaying leaves or fungus –</b></span><p></p>
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was this small and very attractive spider –</b></span><p></p>
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were some that I could identify: a small Wolf Spider, a Dwarf Spider
(yes, that’s its name) and a Bark Crab Spider –</b></span><p></p>
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springtails to be found, both of the same species – Elongate-bodied
Springtail. Springtails somewhat resemble insects and were considered
to be insects when I was in college oh so many years ago, but now
they are in a separate class. They derive their name from a process
under their abdomen that gives them the ability to flip through the
air to escape predators –</b></span><p></p>
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among the leaves, almost certainly a European species since native
earthworms were eliminated from glaciated areas. The European worms
were introduced by settlers who brought potted fruit trees and garden
plants to the New World –</b></span><p></p>
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introduced species that I found among the leaves. Since they’re
entirely soft-bodied it was really surprising that this one survived
January’s colder days –</b></span><p></p>
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was this moth larva (caterpillar), perhaps the larva of an owlet moth
–</b></span><p></p>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm6FtM85HcfvRAU98CKGpQ1OuT2-RSBGsylVxYt5cNfomcorAEW0xYJBcIJItojhVmgvhXeiHAaEpHwbcHLChOj2qUYSShgr-3pbtNvlouT7yYr-r1CiwGW1EveSKpG-QUrXepkkzRtdsZV2KLtY4WlX8ig3sv0nCxTTYawiooM-2Zdmwhcuqd7GDWJ-1q/s1000/Caterpillar%20-%201-DeNoiseAI-low-light.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm6FtM85HcfvRAU98CKGpQ1OuT2-RSBGsylVxYt5cNfomcorAEW0xYJBcIJItojhVmgvhXeiHAaEpHwbcHLChOj2qUYSShgr-3pbtNvlouT7yYr-r1CiwGW1EveSKpG-QUrXepkkzRtdsZV2KLtY4WlX8ig3sv0nCxTTYawiooM-2Zdmwhcuqd7GDWJ-1q/w640-h480/Caterpillar%20-%201-DeNoiseAI-low-light.JPG" width="640" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br />One of the last critters I
found in the handful of leaves was this well camouflaged Rough Stink
Bug –</b></span><p></p>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPzXO68bD0KW0GZdeK43EkbUWPcRoXkquWpPpo_AmMKW26EgOO_JoZK4-dM81MStMS59n54g7pIe-PJv5tBQqcjRrJ_8jwsqUN5XLxG0OJogROmURF_95j7ybwShw0beyix6dPwkIUMOUVOdMTIt0jf1o9L09h-5PkIJL95l4WYiXBGXoysZ2Oz1QQzBi3/s1000/Rough%20Stink%20Bug.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPzXO68bD0KW0GZdeK43EkbUWPcRoXkquWpPpo_AmMKW26EgOO_JoZK4-dM81MStMS59n54g7pIe-PJv5tBQqcjRrJ_8jwsqUN5XLxG0OJogROmURF_95j7ybwShw0beyix6dPwkIUMOUVOdMTIt0jf1o9L09h-5PkIJL95l4WYiXBGXoysZ2Oz1QQzBi3/w640-h640/Rough%20Stink%20Bug.JPG" width="640" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br />Gathering and sorting
through a handful of decaying leaves is an enjoyable activity,
allowing us to see things we don't see in the usual course of our
lives. It also makes me </b><b>curious
about</b><b> how many
small animals are crushed with every footstep </b><b>we</b><b>
take in the forest – </b><b>curious
but not guilty</b><b>.</b></span><p></p>
Woody Meristemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17042498252608254901noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389594314135473379.post-72967148198109403572024-02-28T07:57:00.000-05:002024-02-28T07:57:15.151-05:00Dinner is Served<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Down
at the edge of the wetland lay the carcass of a white-tail buck,
nearby was a crossbow bolt (arrow), a good clue to the cause of its
demise. The deer was probably wounded during the late archery hunting
season which ended in January. Wounded deer, especially those hit in
the abdomen, frequently head for water. The hunter never
found the deer so there it lay.<br /></b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Poachers frequently use crossbows since they’re
silent and quite accurate, so the deer could have been wounded by a poacher
working after dark. In that case there was almost certainly no effort made to find the
deer.</b></span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>When
I found the carcass it had already been fed upon by scavengers –
eastern coyote, bald eagle, vultures or …?</b></span>
</p>
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<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqQgY7sP35_iIh1PIyq5eBG07GV1TiG55J8deXQ80Xw9Q4_FV5tb2-EJluYBt_RlVP_b6iGC8h4D5Aj3kvyEDHN8IkYtfYra-wMo_cmSiguAzBeZ13T6jGfbpqOnsA6loVpz1XYICYGOzj6DeiYJt6dDvfxS_QehxoHzDOF-hFt6TNG4bXbH6brOB7BUir/s1000/Dead%20Deer%20-%20Sylvan%20Dell.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqQgY7sP35_iIh1PIyq5eBG07GV1TiG55J8deXQ80Xw9Q4_FV5tb2-EJluYBt_RlVP_b6iGC8h4D5Aj3kvyEDHN8IkYtfYra-wMo_cmSiguAzBeZ13T6jGfbpqOnsA6loVpz1XYICYGOzj6DeiYJt6dDvfxS_QehxoHzDOF-hFt6TNG4bXbH6brOB7BUir/w640-h480/Dead%20Deer%20-%20Sylvan%20Dell.JPG" width="640" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br />Another
great opportunity to get videos of whatever was feeding on the
carcass. As usual in an area without trees I mounted the camera on
what is called a concrete stake, a half inch diameter steel rod three
feet long with a series of holes along its length. These are usually
used to hold concrete forms in place, but they’re also excellent
for holding a camera trap. </b></span>
<p></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>With
the camera trap in place there was nothing to do but wait for a week
or so and then check the videos it obtained. The first week the
camera had well over a hundred videos of vegetation blowing in the
wind – but it also had many videos taken over several nights of a
red fox feeding on the carcass –</b></span></p>
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<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Most
predators will feed on the carcass of a dead animal or bird. Less
energy is expended in feeding on something that's already dead and
there’s much less risk of injury for the predator – an injured
predator is at a distinct disadvantage in catching prey.</b></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Over
the years </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>In
Forest and Field</b></i></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>
has had a number of posts showing the creatures that have fed on the
carcasses of a black bear, white-tailed deer, raccoon and screech owl.</b></span></p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>The plan is for the camera trap to remain in place until the deer has been reduced to
scattered bones and hair – bones that will be gnawed upon by
rodents, hair that will grace nests of birds and rodents.</b></span></p>
Woody Meristemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17042498252608254901noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389594314135473379.post-76831751629113463172024-02-21T07:37:00.000-05:002024-02-21T07:37:06.338-05:00Last Year at a Fallen Aspen<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>If you’re a regular
visitor to <i>In Forest and Field</i> you’ve seen previous
videos of the wildlife activity on and around fallen trees. Today we’re looking at the wildlife that used a large fallen quaking
aspen in 2023.</b></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Quaking
aspen has the widest range of any North American tree and is named
for the way its leaves shake in the slightest breeze due to their
flattened petioles (stems). Aspens are fairly short-lived trees with
an average life-span of about 75 years although some individual trees
can live twice as long. These trees are pioneers on disturbed sites:
abandoned fields, strip mines and areas burned by a forest fire. They
can be distinguished by their </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>gray bark with a </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>greenish or yellowish cast </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>and almost
round leaves. Old aspen have dark furrowed bark.<br /></b></span></p>
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fallen aspen grew in a long-ago pasture and was one of the last
remaining aspens on the site; it was surrounded by younger maples,
ash and birch trees which will take its place in the forest. The tree
stood for several years before it decayed enough to fall. In death
it’s attracted a host of wildlife species –</b></span><p></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>The
red fox can be easily differentiated from the eastern coyote by its
uniformly colored coat and the dark stripes down its front legs.
Apparently the black bear was exhausted as it rested before it
crossed the fallen aspen. Did you notice the mouse climbing the
distant tree and the mouse carrying its prize, a small bone that will
provide the mouse with calcium?</b></span></p>
Woody Meristemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17042498252608254901noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389594314135473379.post-47509201630600739352024-02-14T07:38:00.000-05:002024-02-14T07:38:19.547-05:00Eagles on Ice<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>It was an absolutely
beautiful morning – clear as a bell, bright blue sky with nary a
cloud, cool bordering on cold. It was also a great day to do
something H and I have done often over the many years that we’ve been together: take a long ride through pretty
country.</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>It wasn’t long before H
spotted an adult bald eagle perched in a white pine; I never saw the
bird and could neither stop nor turn around to take a look. Some time
later we visited a property where I’d occasionally worked in recent
years, a property with large old trees, abundant wildflowers in spring and
beautiful stone walls.</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>The beauty of the day
prompted us to visit a large Corps of Engineers lake to see what we
could see. The lake was almost completely covered with ice with just
a few areas of open water. In the water was a flock of Canada geese
and on the ice was a group of ring-billed gulls.</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>We drove to a spot where we
could see more of the lake – out on the ice was a juvenile bald
eagle feeding on fish frozen in the ice and being harassed by a band
of common crows –</b></span></p>
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the camera’s viewfinder and taking photos when H said “Here comes
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and we did likewise to see three more bald eagles coming in –</b></span><p></p>
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eagles flew further out from shore. One of the eagles that had
come late to the party was a four year old bird which the youngsters
followed to another frozen fish –</b></span><p></p>
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the ice gave it a blue cast and the heat from the sun caused a
heat shimmer that made photography at long distances problematic; the
shimmer can be seen in the video.</b></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">While the ice easily
supported the eagles, it wouldn’t support little ole me and,
despite it being a beautiful day and wanting to get closer, I decided a polar plunge was not in the
cards so the photos and video were taken from shore and at quite a distance.</span></b></span></p>
Woody Meristemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17042498252608254901noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389594314135473379.post-2100996662586106032024-02-07T13:51:00.002-05:002024-02-08T08:43:51.247-05:00Contortions<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Anyone
who has watched chickadees and titmice has seen the gyrations and
contortions they sometimes go through to get a bite to eat. One
recent day I was walking along the edge of an old field and stopped
to watch a tufted titmouse getting seeds from several 5-8 foot tall
dead plants. It would go through a few contortions to get a seed from
the dried seed pods and then fly off to open the seed’s hull to get
at its contents.</b></span></p>
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are a few photos –</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b></b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAzVZnH0rLzTuSdxD7dLgHzdBkXL2QSL8W468CXi7DvHl8t-3z94GATNzf40sENzAfkxiGwMJOteegxIFwTd-iLmecuDFNe_16oKLHzMnq07UtZTaNX63ZeVgEuPDceaV7YG2RMS0t71bVGce3qVw2zFIHKvXWYOlccDmpQ9oIqdMe_0zzd5wJ3q3C1geN/s1000/Tufted%20Titmouse%20-%201d.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAzVZnH0rLzTuSdxD7dLgHzdBkXL2QSL8W468CXi7DvHl8t-3z94GATNzf40sENzAfkxiGwMJOteegxIFwTd-iLmecuDFNe_16oKLHzMnq07UtZTaNX63ZeVgEuPDceaV7YG2RMS0t71bVGce3qVw2zFIHKvXWYOlccDmpQ9oIqdMe_0zzd5wJ3q3C1geN/w640-h640/Tufted%20Titmouse%20-%201d.jpg" width="640" /></a></b></span></div><p></p><p style="line-height: 150%; 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still not been able to identify the plant they were visiting, so I
must hang my head in shame. Although the seed pods vaguely resemble those some other plants, I know not what it is. It may be an
exotic plant from elsewhere that’s not common and isn’t in any of
the field guides in my library. </b></span>
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Woody Meristemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17042498252608254901noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389594314135473379.post-39191345644808847882024-01-31T06:17:00.002-05:002024-01-31T19:23:47.970-05:00Ravens at Play<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Common ravens are our most
intelligent birds – they cache food and move it if they’ve been
observed in the process, can repeatedly pull on a string and hold it
with a foot to retrieve food dangling from a perch, they use simple tools and
they play. They’ve been observed carrying sticks as they fly, dropping
the stick and catching it; dropping a rock for another
raven to catch in the air; and playing similarly with streamers of
surveyor’s plastic tape. While flying in a stiff wind they’ll do
loop-the-loops and barrel rolls seemingly for the pure joy of it.</b></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>We
went back to the farmland where we’d <span style="color: #2b00fe;"><u><a href="https://forestandfield.blogspot.com/2024/01/hawks-and-owls.html">previously</a></u></span>
seen harriers and short-eared owls to try for better photos. That was
not to be, because a northwest wind was howling across the ridges.</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEEc5AOwp12scJMQYwpQEPCGfGrSKUOe99t_XTLGwFzYGKqlPBgN5z9H1AjLm59kC3OUrxZUjCcAJWcFIblyWHwhyphenhyphen3cIIVzVF6NWTq2_Gc64uzDd9a5Ts2lYB1KvBSIl6d-EjAuCLi6kYGeGtpX8Sm_R02Rl1Tx3qrXQD-322UTb4-MixxhyphenhyphenEcKMLRFAPN/s1000/fields.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEEc5AOwp12scJMQYwpQEPCGfGrSKUOe99t_XTLGwFzYGKqlPBgN5z9H1AjLm59kC3OUrxZUjCcAJWcFIblyWHwhyphenhyphen3cIIVzVF6NWTq2_Gc64uzDd9a5Ts2lYB1KvBSIl6d-EjAuCLi6kYGeGtpX8Sm_R02Rl1Tx3qrXQD-322UTb4-MixxhyphenhyphenEcKMLRFAPN/w640-h480/fields.JPG" width="640" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b> </b></span><p></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>What
we saw instead was a band of juvenile common ravens at play –</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5CrTrBbnt0KgZ_wW6MGd4WSdNbcYuh75jx37f_hGnQXr4uTFiCXtAF3Nos3tp-gfDlE6MtYf3IsZ-ykZepWkbx8b2PD84jSXSqgxLyYpcTxFGQaizSwRvEDj8sO5W6KC1CR3ziCfdDvi6j3acjw3Y7PlJI0L6trm7_W5wr9E7FvvYV0QIBTc5risWeFoD/s1000/Raven%20(401)-DeNoiseAI-low-light.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5CrTrBbnt0KgZ_wW6MGd4WSdNbcYuh75jx37f_hGnQXr4uTFiCXtAF3Nos3tp-gfDlE6MtYf3IsZ-ykZepWkbx8b2PD84jSXSqgxLyYpcTxFGQaizSwRvEDj8sO5W6KC1CR3ziCfdDvi6j3acjw3Y7PlJI0L6trm7_W5wr9E7FvvYV0QIBTc5risWeFoD/w640-h640/Raven%20(401)-DeNoiseAI-low-light.JPG" width="640" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7P2Rk4B0BE2e23AqOqv4ez9_OABBfRnV43QeE5WgRY4r4_qEyYLIzsFyTXx0Yx4M4lcd03XQ7WPwrif-eZaxw1_unajduUlXXK8np5-8dSNJJzwJUza_T-ec5mFWvxiDks0VpIk_zJm22snTJsu8uQSABJz81J0xe1PM6SjqJOYHlGC17pOPRb481LviT/s1000/Raven%20(539)-DeNoiseAI-low-light.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7P2Rk4B0BE2e23AqOqv4ez9_OABBfRnV43QeE5WgRY4r4_qEyYLIzsFyTXx0Yx4M4lcd03XQ7WPwrif-eZaxw1_unajduUlXXK8np5-8dSNJJzwJUza_T-ec5mFWvxiDks0VpIk_zJm22snTJsu8uQSABJz81J0xe1PM6SjqJOYHlGC17pOPRb481LviT/w640-h480/Raven%20(539)-DeNoiseAI-low-light.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br />The
ravens were playing in the wind, chasing each other, occasionally
landing on a fencepost, and then resuming the chase –</b></span><p></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>After a while they apparently tired of the games, flew over us and out of
sight.</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>For
more about ravens’ intelligence see biologist Bernd Heinrich’s
<i>The Mind of the Raven</i>.</b></span></p>Woody Meristemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17042498252608254901noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389594314135473379.post-75014564814156343592024-01-24T08:01:00.001-05:002024-01-25T10:14:42.820-05:00Hawks and Owls<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>About a half hour from here
there are a number of farms on a series of high jumbled ridges.
Woodland grows in the valleys between the ridges, but the higher
terrain has all been cleared and farmed for 150 years. Although many
of those farms had been dairy farms, few are now. Most of the land
produces hay, row crops or pastures beef cattle. </b></span>
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one afternoon H and I went to see the northern harriers that hunt the
fields in winter and hoped to see some wintering short-eared owls
that take over the night shift. Although there was but a gentle
breeze at the house, up on the open ridges the wind was strong. It
wasn’t long before we saw a harrier hunting for meadow voles in a
hayfield –</b></span><p></p>
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wind was high and there were raptors aloft soaring on high</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b> –</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b> a
red-tailed hawk accompanied by three harriers –</b></span><p></p>
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were soon joined by an immature bald eagle accompanied by a much
smaller harrier –<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></b></span><p></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz6OMuRGUo0mUs93F_I3YHxZBuHl4zWcsiXxcSbXLaVFtypMlGlARxViWAWoRgUJN5oo4VzZxZrxaEyOHFGAhQUI_Inrj2rBjLoQBwaGm1scU8L8fa-d6xFj4Y9nJKfb8y5i6ZszXQ3jAkyx8m79iyULJD0OfJBR7AYhT_Ut9ldox80aKpPW__YypPRZb9/s1000/Harrier%20&%20Bald%20Eagle%20(1).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz6OMuRGUo0mUs93F_I3YHxZBuHl4zWcsiXxcSbXLaVFtypMlGlARxViWAWoRgUJN5oo4VzZxZrxaEyOHFGAhQUI_Inrj2rBjLoQBwaGm1scU8L8fa-d6xFj4Y9nJKfb8y5i6ZszXQ3jAkyx8m79iyULJD0OfJBR7AYhT_Ut9ldox80aKpPW__YypPRZb9/w640-h640/Harrier%20&%20Bald%20Eagle%20(1).JPG" width="640" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br />They
were all too high for good photos and these harriers soaring close to
a ridgetop were quite far from us –</b></span><p></p>
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were no owls fighting the wind that day, but we went back on another
evening when the sky was gray and the light bad; that evening both
the harriers and the short-eared owls took to the air. Short-eared
owls in flight resemble gigantic moths; they have long wide wings and
are light in weight so they’re fast and buoyant. When they find prey
they often turn quickly and make a vertical dive – </b></span>
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owls frequently sought out perches on the dead stalks of common
mullein or on fenceposts –</b></span><p></p>
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birds were far away and the light poor so we headed home. Several
days later when the light was better, hoping that the third time would be a charm, we went back
late in the day, parked along the township road again and watched
for hawks and owls. Great day in the evening when the northern harriers passed over as they headed to roost, first a male and then several
females or juveniles –</b></span><p></p>
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fading light brought out the short-eared owls to hunt the same fields that the harriers hunted during the day –</b></span><p></p>
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the sky darkened further we headed home, leaving the owls to hunt
through the night.</b></span><p></p>
Woody Meristemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17042498252608254901noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389594314135473379.post-90198913119812620812024-01-17T07:51:00.003-05:002024-01-17T08:14:24.037-05:00Favorites from 2023<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>How
many photographs did I make in 2023? That’s a good question and I
don’t have an answer, but it </b><b>certainly </b><b>numbered in
the thousands. Many went directly into the computer’s trash bin
after they’d been downloaded from the camera; others were edited,
still found wanting and then trashed.</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Of
the thousands of photos taken in 2023, somewhere between 2,000 and
2,500 were deemed worthy of being saved. Of all those photographs
the</b><b>se</b><b> few may not be the best from an artistic standpoint
or the most technically proficient </b><b>but</b><b>, </b><b>for
one reason or another,</b><b> became favorites. </b><b>For those of
you that are photographers the metadata is included for each
photograph. H</b><b>ere are 12 of my favorite </b><b>photographs from
2023, not in any particular order </b><b>–</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>A
</b><b>Pennsylvania </b><b>elk</b><b> photographed on a
foggy morning in September at 6:51 am. </b><b>This was at the peak of
the rut, he had a band of four cows in the field with him.</b><b> </b></span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>Olympus E-M1 ii
camera, Olympus 100-400mm lens, 1/3 second, f/9, ISO 3200.</b></span></p>
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aminita</b><b> is one of the </b><b>mycorrhizal </b><b>fungi
growing on trees’ roots that provide water and nutrients to trees
in exchange for sugars produced by the tree. This is the “toadstool”
that’s often seen in artwork and cartoons. Photographed in October. </b></span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>Olympus E-M10 ii camera, Olympus 60mm macro lens, 1/200 second,
f/8, ISO 1000. </b></span>
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pair of </b><b>filmy dome spiders</b><b>, female above, male
below; </b><b>photographed in our garden in </b><b>August. </b></span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>Olympus
E-M10 ii camera, Olympus 60mm macro lens, 1/125 second, f/10, ISO 400
with flash.</b></span><p></p>
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coneflower</b><b> photographed </b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>in August </b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>in State Game Lands on Barkley Mountain.
</b></span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>Olympus E-M10 ii camera, Olympus 60mm macro lens, 1/400 second, f/10,
ISO 1000.</b></span><p></p>
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</b><b>hummingbird clearwing moth</b><b> is a day-flying moth
often mistaken for a butterfly or a hummingbird. Wild bergamot
is one of their favorite flowers, here at the peak of its bloom in July.
</b></span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>Olympus E-M1 ii camera, Olympus 100-400mm lens with 1.4X
teleconverter, 1/2500 second, f/9, ISO 1000.</b></span><p></p>
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</b><b>red-bellied woodpecker</b><b> showing the color
on its abdomen for which it was named, while clinging to an old fencepost in November. The
species has expanded its range northward in the last 50 years.
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spiders, like this </b><b>tan jumping spider</b><b>, have
personalities and often jump on the camera as I attempt to photograph
them. In November this was one of the last spiders still active in
2023. </b></span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>Olympus E-M10 ii camera, Olympus 60mm macro lens, 1/60 second,
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young </b><b>white-tailed deer</b><b> photographed on the hill
above the house in June. She had a brother born at the same time since most female white-tails have twins each year.
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female </b><b>wood duck</b><b> seemed to be saying “Who’re
you lookin' at?” as she stood on an old stump in a beaver pond in
April. </b></span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>Olympus E-M1 ii camera, Olympus 100-400mm lens with 1.4X
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lily</b><b> photographed after a rain in July in the Quehanna
Wild Area. This was the first blooming wood lily that I’d seen in years, but
just one of several I found that day. </b></span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>Olympus E-M10 ii camera, Lumix
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male </b><b>yellow-bellied sapsucker</b><b> was busy working
on a series of holes in our apple tree. He’ll feed on the sap and
any insects that might still come to the sap in December. </b></span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>Olympus E-M1
ii camera, Olympus 100-400mm lens with the camera’s 2X digital
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Woody Meristemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17042498252608254901noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389594314135473379.post-61901021263433435772024-01-10T08:03:00.001-05:002024-01-13T17:09:03.503-05:00Goldfinch and Harrier<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>An area of restored grasslands along the river contains extensive areas planted
to warm season grasses and prairie wildflowers. Among the wildflowers
are purple coneflower, g</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>aillardia</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>
and giant sunflower; the giant sunflower lives up to its name, often
growing over eight feet tall with bright yellow flowers –</b></span></p>
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have I found any of those wildflowers growing wild in northcentral
Pennsylvania, only in areas such as this where they’ve been
planted. Did they grow in the meadows that developed following Native
Americans’ slash and burn agriculture? </b></span>
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any event, it’s winter now and the flowers of summer are long gone
to seed. It’s those seeds that attract American goldfinch to the
abundant tall dried stalks of the giant sunflower that were swaying in the wind –</b></span></p>
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I inched closer to the flock of goldfinch they took flight and were
quickly lost from of sight. So I continued my walk through the
grassland without the expectation of seeing anything else of
interest.</b></span></p><p></p>
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wasn’t long before a female or immature harrier came into sight,
quartering above the tall grass in its search for a vole or small
bird –</b></span></p>
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some time. Finally it emerged and flew to a large dead snag where it
proceeded to eat its meal, too far away to allow me to see whether it was
feeding on a mammal or a bird –</b></span></p>
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remainder of my walk in the grassland was without any sightings of
interest.</b></span><p></p>
Woody Meristemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17042498252608254901noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389594314135473379.post-83121194303374130522024-01-03T07:34:00.000-05:002024-01-03T07:34:32.502-05:00WHUMP !<p></p><p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Up
the hill, not far above the house, stood a dead tree, a red maple.
Over the years after it died, the bark had sloughed off, the twigs
and small branches gradually fell to the ground, later the larger
limbs also fell, having succumbed to decay, heavy wet snow and wind.</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>For
the last several years the bare trunk stood tall and straight,
gleaming in the sun or dark with rain. In late October we looked out
one morning and there, flat on the ground, </b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>lay the trunk</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>. It was large enough and tall enough that it must
have hit with a solid WHUMP! – but we never heard it, there’s a
lot to be said for a good, sound sleep.</b></span></p>
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an opportunity for a camera trap placed to look down the trunk. The
videos from November –</b></span><p></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="498" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZwrIpM5eQBU" width="599" youtube-src-id="ZwrIpM5eQBU"></iframe></b></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b><br />The
buck in the last portion of the video had survived the first few days
of rifle deer season following a month of archery deer season. Although
bears frequently mess with trail cameras and deer often smell them,
this is one of the few times I’ve had a buck trash a camera trap,
I found it lying on the ground facing the sky. It hadn’t taken a
video after it was treated so badly, but it was undamaged.</b></span><p></p>Woody Meristemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17042498252608254901noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389594314135473379.post-45129352196796665352023-12-27T21:42:00.000-05:002023-12-27T21:42:37.953-05:00Didn't Make the Cut<p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia; line-height: 150%;">For the past year I'd been making what I considered a
good or at least interesting photograph each day within 200 feet of our back
door. The results were posted by the meteorological seasons <i><span style="color: #c9211e;"><u><a href="https://forestandfield.blogspot.com/2023/03/around-house-winter.html">here</a></u></span></i>, <i><span style="color: #c9211e;"><u><a href="https://forestandfield.blogspot.com/2023/06/around-house-spring.html">here</a></u></span><span style="color: black;">,</span><span style="color: #c9211e;"> <u><a href="https://forestandfield.blogspot.com/2023/09/around-house-summer.html">here</a></u></span></i> and <i><span style="color: #c9211e;"><a href="https://forestandfield.blogspot.com/2023/12/around-house-fall.html" target="_blank">here</a></span><span style="color: black;">.</span></i></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; line-height: 150%;">On many days I took multiple
photos, sometimes a burst of several images of one subject, sometimes photos of
different subjects. Many of those, for one reason or another, weren’t included
in the earlier posts. Just as some athletes aren’t good enough to make the team
and are referred to as not having “made the cut”, the same can be said of
photos that just aren’t good enough – here are a few of the many photos that
didn’t make the cut – </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; line-height: 150%;"> </span></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlzjIxKyNkCKPXtAzVmRztyZBjxl9nc8696SLYQemc2jqMOy0Z8sesSKWkegklzWZ5O74lDmRS4aGSqiKw4d4J4AoGkd-2OgBC49EAhP598COvf78kpGvxYIncWaSP42Tzka6FVCrXGEHrmObu5-_iR08Y_SdHWVtW5-AlQNEma5WYghN2b98I4xjSgwC1/s1000/Yellow%20Stagshorn.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlzjIxKyNkCKPXtAzVmRztyZBjxl9nc8696SLYQemc2jqMOy0Z8sesSKWkegklzWZ5O74lDmRS4aGSqiKw4d4J4AoGkd-2OgBC49EAhP598COvf78kpGvxYIncWaSP42Tzka6FVCrXGEHrmObu5-_iR08Y_SdHWVtW5-AlQNEma5WYghN2b98I4xjSgwC1/w640-h480/Yellow%20Stagshorn.JPG" width="640" /></a></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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photographs could have been taken within 200 feet of our back door I’ll never
know, but the number probably approaches the uncountable.</span></b></span></p>
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{page:Section1;}</style></p>Woody Meristemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17042498252608254901noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389594314135473379.post-35492413603199772842023-12-20T07:31:00.000-05:002023-12-20T07:31:35.779-05:00Snow Day<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Our
first sticking snow arrived </b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>early
in</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>
December, 50 years ago we usually had a sticking snow two to three
weeks earlier – climate change is upon us. Snow was falling as I
headed out to run some errands, here's some
of what there w</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>a</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>s
to see on that snowy day – </b></span>
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a mockingbird that slaked its thirst by eating snow from the branch on
which it was perched –</b></span><p></p><p></p>
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next day the temperature rose into the high 40s and all the snow melted.</b></span><p></p>
Woody Meristemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17042498252608254901noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389594314135473379.post-9549181864477437472023-12-13T07:48:00.000-05:002023-12-13T07:48:37.852-05:00Bucks in the Yard<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Mid-November
is the peak of the rut for white-tailed deer in Pennsylvania, with
the average date of fertilization being November 13. But, and that’s
a big but, some does are bred earlier and others later – a few much later.</b></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Bucks
wander far and wide to find receptive does, often far beyond the area
they frequented earlier in the year, and to which they will return
during the winter. In their wanderings into unfamiliar territory some
bucks wander into the path of vehicles, others make a hunter happy.</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Here
on the side of the hill one of my camera traps kept watch on an open
portion of our yard about 50 feet from the house. All summer a doe,
her fawn from 2022 (also a doe) and her two fawns from this year have
frequented the yard. We’ve often seen them during the day and they
spend many nights here too </b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>–</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b> the camera trap has taken many videos of them.</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>As
for bucks, we seldom see them. But those two does, and perhaps this
year’s doe fawn as well, certainly attracted the bucks. How far had
bucks come to visit the ladies, we’ll never know, but during
mid-November the camera trap had 13 videos of eight different bucks in
the yard – </b></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="487" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7kfRBPqBgNo" width="586" youtube-src-id="7kfRBPqBgNo"></iframe></b></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>The
buck’s chase of the doe is common behavior during the rut as bucks
chase does until the doe is ready to breed, this may go on for many
hours. There’s also some thought that chasing is also a doe’s way
of testing a buck’s fitness. </b></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>There were cameo
appearances in the video by a gray fox and a red fox which ended the video.</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Earlier
one of those bucks had badly treated a camera trap placed to take
photos of small mammals and birds. He was
rubbing his forehead (where two scent producing glands are
located) on the camera, leaving his scent as a signal to other deer
of his condition and fitness – </b></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='588' height='489' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxpY-bfNDY1g_VFW99M64Q8jMjjLoGMW5R0wKpwfoLzMSdDXeSqxpJs_8HTNJEHS6PDtA9n3OXUukm3wg0FXw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></b></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span>
<p></p>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>If
the bucks remained nearby during rifle deer season they may stay alive
for another year; nobody hunts near here and the ridge above the
house is steep, rocky and parts are covered in shoulder-high mountain
laurel – perfect country for a buck to live to a ripe old age. But
bucks are like a lot of teenage boys, they do stupid stuff while chasing the girls and
some may not be around for the new year.</b></span></p>
Woody Meristemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17042498252608254901noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389594314135473379.post-37504724037506341722023-12-06T05:33:00.002-05:002023-12-06T05:33:52.775-05:00Around the House - Fall<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>To
all of us</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>
</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>who go by </b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>the
</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>meteorological
seasons, fall begins on the first of September and ends November 30. Certainly there were days with summer-like temperatures, some summer-blooming
wildflowers had blossoms in early fall but black bears were fattening up and some trees, especially
red maples, began to change color – the distant hills often have a
reddish cast by September 1. </b></span>
</p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>As
we entered</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b> fall, the daily photographs in this continuing series were taken within 200 feet of our back door – insects, flowers,
birds, mammals, fungi, trees and other plants. The area within that 200 feet
consists of woodland, lawn, flower garden, ornamental trees and
shrubs and a tiny, tiny pond.</b></span></p>
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</p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>H
and I have been extremely fortunate to have lived here on the side of
the hill for over 50 years in a house that was built for us by
a skilled and conscientious crew. The house was built in
woodland that was once a pasture and had then reverted to forest,
forest that consists primarily of black birch, red maple and
tulip-poplar with a scattering of oaks, hickories, black locust and
other species.</b></span></p>
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</p>
<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>The
woodland has been heavily impacted by white-tailed deer, </b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>many
</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>species
of shrubs and herbaceous plants have been browsed into oblivion. In
order to protect some of those shrubs and wildflowers from the deer,
a deer-resistant fence encloses a small area where white trillium,
mayapple and other plants still grow.</b></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>The videos and photo
from the camera traps within 200 feet of our back door are noted at
the end of this post.</b></span></p>
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the hardwood leaves have fallen, their nutrients will be recycled with help from all the unseen living things on the forest floor; the deer, squirrels and chipmunks may have a lean winter since there weren't many acorns or hickory nuts here; we may, or may not, have much snow and cold as the climate changes </b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><span><b>–</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b> time moves on as do the seasons.</b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>This
post completes not only the fourth of the year’s seasons, but the
fifth photo-a-day-for-a-year series that’s been posted on </b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>In
Forest and Field</b></i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>.</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>
Just as a similar project by a renowned nature photographer inspired
the first of my series, perhaps these photographs will inspire you to take a closer look at the world around your home and maybe do something similar with whatever subject interests you.</b></span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Hopefully
you’ve enjoyed viewing the photos as much as I’ve enjoyed taking them.
Will I do another such series? We’ll see. </b></span></p><p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></p><p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">From the camera traps: 9/20, 10/12, 11/12, 11/16 & 11/28</span></b></span>
</p>Woody Meristemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17042498252608254901noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389594314135473379.post-67839313685236134252023-11-29T07:53:00.001-05:002023-11-29T19:57:29.769-05:00Looked out the front window ...<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p><p align="center" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Looked
out the front window</b></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b> and
what did I see?</b></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>A
sapsucker, sapsucker</b></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b> on
the old apple tree.</b></span></p><p align="center" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
</p><p align="left" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>The
apple tree has been in front of the house since it was planted 50
years ago when it’s trunk was little more than an inch in diameter (so it's not really very old, but that sounds better than "middle-aged apple tree").
A couple of years later it bloomed for the first time and it has done
so every year since.</b></span></p>
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wide variety of bees and flies visit the flowers for their abundant
pollen and in doing so pollinate the flowers.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Migrating warblers and vireos stop in the apple tree to feast on insects before flying on north </b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>–</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhPGUEEwmCvuRDKiu6jiqZZ9KQjltX0ZX0IIPvAkwDAw6i93aE2HDFv_Fm4afjyvEgjLXOD_aF98UPF8MmgqfBXR9Q1yOwNnugKd5THIBmM0abpkFeXAGXHU-c-unulFvLDtiFXUcp046UVZWEhB5eT5Ubt9_NOD15hknHgygE0ot0cmfcp-TU_uYN-fh-/s1000/Red-eyed%20Vireo.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhPGUEEwmCvuRDKiu6jiqZZ9KQjltX0ZX0IIPvAkwDAw6i93aE2HDFv_Fm4afjyvEgjLXOD_aF98UPF8MmgqfBXR9Q1yOwNnugKd5THIBmM0abpkFeXAGXHU-c-unulFvLDtiFXUcp046UVZWEhB5eT5Ubt9_NOD15hknHgygE0ot0cmfcp-TU_uYN-fh-/w640-h480/Red-eyed%20Vireo.JPG" width="640" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b> </b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Months later, before
the apples are mature enough for us to pick, gray squirrels scramble
through the branches to eat some of the apples.</b></span></p><p></p>
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don’t spray the tree against the insects that feed on its leaves or
developing apples. But we have picked the apples when they ripen in
September, some for eating but most to make into apple sauce. The
apple tree hasn’t just fed the bees, or the squirrels, or the birds
that come to eat the insects that feed on its leaves, or us – it
has also fed the yellow-bellied sapsuckers that have made rows of
holes on its trunk.</b></span><p></p>
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so it was on a day in mid-November when I looked out the window and saw
a female yellow-bellied sapsucker on the apple tree. She was busy
making new holes in the bark to obtain a fresh flow of sap. So busy
was she that I could go outside and approach to within 25 feet while
taking a number of photos </b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>–</b></span><p></p>
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still she worked steadily, so I switched to taking videos of her hard
at work –</b></span><p></p>
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<p align="left" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="491" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ojy8jh_TBtU" width="590" youtube-src-id="Ojy8jh_TBtU"></iframe></b></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b><br />It
was quite cool outside and, expecting her to fly off, I hadn’t put
on a coat so after a few minutes I left her hard at work and went
back in the warm house.</b></span><p></p>Woody Meristemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17042498252608254901noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389594314135473379.post-69147297472707693342023-11-22T05:12:00.000-05:002023-11-22T05:12:26.900-05:00Six Months at a Fallen Pine<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>More
than a century ago portions of the Big Woods were farmland. But
then, just about 100 years before this is being written, those farms
were abandoned; some were planted to various species of conifers
while others reverted to woodland. As in much of the northeast, white
pine was the pioneer tree species to begin growing in some of the old
fields.</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>The elongating tip of white pines growing in the open of old fields is frequently killed
by feeding larvae of white pine weevils. When that happens
one or more side branches begin growing upward, the result is a
multi-stemmed tree –</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjpEpxIuhX3N9ONI4ZBnEXJQdSUvr61yoBKVdi_-zkuSXz8ApoHJ-WBcOcrVE6JErAV73iAiH35a8muDVhIzoLTR_lRT1X1bPpuz_-DZfMiC1OxU6Nzyapr3kUdnhqWa89t1l78OIz3ysoFtXEnNvIirYZ3h_RHLmNVoZ0cc7RRtn0afEVSgINWsQbIe1i/s751/Conifers%20(86)%20-%20white%20pine.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="751" data-original-width="563" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjpEpxIuhX3N9ONI4ZBnEXJQdSUvr61yoBKVdi_-zkuSXz8ApoHJ-WBcOcrVE6JErAV73iAiH35a8muDVhIzoLTR_lRT1X1bPpuz_-DZfMiC1OxU6Nzyapr3kUdnhqWa89t1l78OIz3ysoFtXEnNvIirYZ3h_RHLmNVoZ0cc7RRtn0afEVSgINWsQbIe1i/w480-h640/Conifers%20(86)%20-%20white%20pine.JPG" width="480" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b><br />A single fork of one of those large multi-stemmed white pines snapped off in a windstorm
last winter – the sound it made as it fell to the ground must have
been impressive. It’s that fallen pine and the critters that use it
which are featured in this video –</b></span><p></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="510" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Wz1a2PmxUe8" width="613" youtube-src-id="Wz1a2PmxUe8"></iframe></b></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b><br />The
camera’s been removed for the duration of the fall hunting seasons
but will be back in mid-winter.</b></span><p></p>
Woody Meristemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17042498252608254901noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389594314135473379.post-34869627417745449812023-11-15T05:54:00.000-05:002023-11-15T05:54:21.609-05:00Suspended in Air<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>It’s
quite a skill to be able to photograph a falling leaf, a skill that
takes many years and excellent eye/hand coordination to master.
</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Although
the most advanced cameras can lock focus on a flying bird or a
running mammal’s eye, none are designed to photograph falling
leaves and success is largely dependent on a photographer’s skill.
</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Fall
is the time to catch leaves as they gently drop to the ground </b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>after</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>
the corky abscission layer that forms in the fall between the leaf’s petiole (stem) and
the twig </b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>has
</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>br</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>o</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>k</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>en</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>.</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Here
are some leaves, and basswood fruit, caught in mid-air as they fell from their trees –</b></span></p>
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font-size: large;"><b> </b></span><p></p><p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Unfortunately
the skill necessary to photograph a leaf drifting in the breeze isn’t
one I possess. These were caught in </b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>mid-air
by a single strand of</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>
spider </b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>silk</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>
which </b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>had</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>
made photographing them easy – were you fooled? </b></span>
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Woody Meristemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17042498252608254901noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389594314135473379.post-4429283417360230502023-11-08T06:18:00.000-05:002023-11-08T06:18:58.700-05:00Wet Afternoon at the Bear Wallow<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Before you jump to conclusions: No,
I did not fall in the bear wallow! </b></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Rain
had fallen for about 36 hours but turned to little more than a drizzle
just after noon so I decided to head for the Big Woods. The hunting
seasons for bear and deer are but weeks away and hunters are
starting to head out, scouting for a good spot to search for their
quarry. So it was time to retrieve the camera trap I’ve had at the
bear wallow before some-less-than-honest person might come across it.</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>On
the way to the bear wallow I got absolutely soaked (my boots would
spend the night on the boot drier). Although many of the trees’
leaves graced the forest floor, there was still fall color to be
seen: bright yellow on the tulip-poplar amid the oaks’ browning
leaves which will be the last to fall –</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBvOfCwvzXGQ1RlfIqRKp6cQrYpCS9MqreWU4KNBdCPNX0FzqVHmMzfVLNAdIPaRjeB3sWcmDo30udZZ9I0FVMR0xzO-q2GBfBN52dvF6PvccQ-Sgi_nOYKmpmS9Z3ekLbyHeL-VKawo4Jfrc6c87AxuRcji5bz7i0pEvXctZZVEie-Z5e6fwegGEXmLCB/s1000/Z%20(1).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBvOfCwvzXGQ1RlfIqRKp6cQrYpCS9MqreWU4KNBdCPNX0FzqVHmMzfVLNAdIPaRjeB3sWcmDo30udZZ9I0FVMR0xzO-q2GBfBN52dvF6PvccQ-Sgi_nOYKmpmS9Z3ekLbyHeL-VKawo4Jfrc6c87AxuRcji5bz7i0pEvXctZZVEie-Z5e6fwegGEXmLCB/w640-h480/Z%20(1).JPG" width="640" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b><br />Closer
at hand some small beech amid the oaks –</b></span><p></p><p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"></p>
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a scattering of fallen tulip-poplar leaves –</b></span><p></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZak35k-jWf2qPlQlVKz4Joxod8wDrJRm93cBqDLj8jW2W-9gpzqizDbTrFsX6_srcvmDoWNFZdHK7E7Wob5hMYvLl6h66FJJDRwiPvHaL7i-jChP2xu7wE2cqG3Fi6-Ls1PESqa3a0DqTulxaXIDnIMSroP4WtTFGWsKW4-PlzeMEEqUA_-jjrREt3Goh/s1000/Z%20(50).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZak35k-jWf2qPlQlVKz4Joxod8wDrJRm93cBqDLj8jW2W-9gpzqizDbTrFsX6_srcvmDoWNFZdHK7E7Wob5hMYvLl6h66FJJDRwiPvHaL7i-jChP2xu7wE2cqG3Fi6-Ls1PESqa3a0DqTulxaXIDnIMSroP4WtTFGWsKW4-PlzeMEEqUA_-jjrREt3Goh/w640-h480/Z%20(50).JPG" width="640" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b><br />Although
most of the American hornbeam leaves were yellow, some of their
fallen leaves were a rich red –</b></span><p></p>
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showing a bit of red were the leaves of a small scarlet oak (although
the leaves weren’t what I’d call scarlet) –</b></span><p></p>
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to scarlet were the fallen leaves of the red maples –</b></span><p></p>
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that time I was almost at the bear wallow </b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>–</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b> suddenly a woodcock,
that had been less than 15 feet away, flushed and disappeared
behind a clump of small white pine. Woodcock usually don’t fly far,
but this one couldn’t be found again.</b></span><p></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>At
the bear wallow the camera trap, its protective steel box and cable
lock went in my pack and off I went: homeward bound. On the way I
stopped to photograph some false turkey-tail fungus –</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>And
more bright red, the leaves on a blackberry cane –</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPCbjEBpq1J27Y_NkZ_CIKpmt9sF4bTAqj-9zvyMRnTBYe3r9VTqgnEpl0TAdVrJ55-Hw-3uIzN7fam88HDDGzlVyEDMk-9u4j2cVak7LKvlwaSbbpirUvrSYu3dw-IcP4NJlmQPnctbMQH3c49R5jgo_ZhuZuusonLwMamdO92Mjh5AFxAklOd_lKpd9U/s1000/Z%20(70).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPCbjEBpq1J27Y_NkZ_CIKpmt9sF4bTAqj-9zvyMRnTBYe3r9VTqgnEpl0TAdVrJ55-Hw-3uIzN7fam88HDDGzlVyEDMk-9u4j2cVak7LKvlwaSbbpirUvrSYu3dw-IcP4NJlmQPnctbMQH3c49R5jgo_ZhuZuusonLwMamdO92Mjh5AFxAklOd_lKpd9U/w640-h640/Z%20(70).JPG" width="640" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b><br />The
topping the day’s cake was a 6-point white-tail buck that stood and
watched me approach before turning and heading into thick cover – </b></span>
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home I changed out of the wet clothes, then the camera trap’s memory card went into the computer to download
the videos it contained, here are the best from October at the bear wallow –</b></span><p></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="485" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_t9zFlQ_YwY" width="584" youtube-src-id="_t9zFlQ_YwY"></iframe></b></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b><br />I’ve
visited bear wallow for at least 30 years and have had a camera trap
there for nine years, never has there been so much vegetation in and
around the pool. Is this a one time occurrence or a portent of things
to come and a sign of our changing world?</b></span><p></p>
Woody Meristemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17042498252608254901noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389594314135473379.post-91348698421676798882023-11-01T06:32:00.002-04:002023-11-01T06:32:31.696-04:00Colors of Fall<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>It’s
fall and the colors have arrived, the myriad colors of fall. The
Rocky Mountains have their aspen groves that turn the mountainsides
into a beautiful tapestry of gold and green. But northeastern North
America has the grandest colors of all – yellow, orange, red of
various shades; pink and port wine, gold and tan and green.</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Trees
and shrubs, wildflowers and fungi – in the northeast colors are
everywhere at this time of year. Here are just a few – </b></span>
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to the grays and browns, black and white and greens of winter. Enjoy
the colors of fall while they’re here.</b><br /></span></span><p></p><p></p>
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Woody Meristemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17042498252608254901noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389594314135473379.post-51760640634455985882023-10-25T08:33:00.005-04:002023-10-25T22:32:22.117-04:00Putting on Pounds<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>It’s
fall, soon to be time for some of our resident mammals - black bears, eastern chipmunks, woodland
and meadow jumping mice, several species of bats and woodchucks - </b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>to head
underground for the winter</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>.</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Chipmunks
don’t actually hibernate, they do sleep a lot but wake up frequently
to eat food they’d stored in their underground burrows throughout
late-summer and fall; if they run short they’ll emerge to look for
more. Jumping mice truly hibernate, their metabolism slows and their
body temperature drops, they spend the longest time </b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>hibernating</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>
of any of our mammals, </b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>often
six to eight months</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>.
Black bears are somewhere between, they sleep quite deeply, don’t
eat or eliminate wastes but can be easily aroused.</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Woodchucks
hibernate, going into a deep sleep with slowed metabolism and, like
other hibernators, have to bulk up with fat in the fall in order to
have enough reserves to make it through the winter.</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>On
a beautiful fall morning I went to the State Game Lands to see what I
could see. While walking along a grassy road a dark shape in one
track caught my eye, the camera’s telephoto lens revealed it to be a
woodchuck busily eating acorns. Acorns are full of calories, great for
putting on pounds in preparation for winter. Deer, bears, squirrels, porcupines, chipmunks – and woodchucks – feed
heavily on acorns whenever they’re available.</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>This
woodchuck would pick up an acorn in its front paws, peel off the hull
with its teeth and then bite off pieces of the kernel.</b></span></p>
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kept doing that as I slowly inched closer –</b></span></p><p></p>
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a while it apparently ran out of acorns within easy reach and moved a
bit looking for more –</b></span></p><p></p>
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typical woodchuck fashion it would occasionally sit erect as it looked
around for danger and then go back to searching for acorns –</b></span></p><p></p>
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kept taking photos and inching closer, hoping for a good portrait –</b></span></p>
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alpenstock, making a quiet “thunk” that sent the woodchuck
scurrying back to its nearby burrow.</b></span></p><p></p>
Woody Meristemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17042498252608254901noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389594314135473379.post-44750581953559680642023-10-18T08:13:00.002-04:002023-10-18T08:16:35.341-04:00More Fungi Among Us<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><i><b>So
here is to the Mushroom family, a far flung friendly clan.</b></i></span></p>
<p align="center" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><i><b>For
food, for fun, for poison, they are a help to man.</b></i></span></p>
<p align="center" class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Gary
Snyder</b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span>
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<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Although
fungi can be found throughout the year, fall is the prime time of
year to find mushrooms in the forest.</b></span><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>They
come in various shades and many colors; some are large while others
are extremely small; trees, shrubs and orchids are dependent on fungi
to assist their roots in obtaining water and nutrients while some of
those same fungi are the most poisonous to humans.</b></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Here
are a few of the fungi I’ve found and photographed while walking in
the forest this fall – </b></span>
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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCD564vHO7v1IDw8lxNTnzfhcsNAZ8Zt3W1RujBW_8ium739i8jTGMLQ560s4WDifKSmblXvYH6JO8Poqh1j5Syy4bjKH47b1kvdkg_Q4Q9Lx12b23q_pgrMAvV6Dx2-s8RaLZEhC9RWGap6uXcj3EWHwinbgQepHxFzA3n90CHG0OThG8WMMgfF3tUxlj/w640-h480/Witch's%20hat%20(Hygrocybe%20conica).JPG" width="640" /></a></b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b> </b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>It’s
well worthwhile kneeling to look at the beauty and variety of the
fungi among us.</b></span></p><p></p>
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<span style="color: #4c05fd; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Note
– My ability to identify fungi is limited, these are my best
efforts at identification but should not be relied on.</b></span></span></p>
Woody Meristemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17042498252608254901noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389594314135473379.post-53723388595482763252023-10-11T07:39:00.000-04:002023-10-11T07:39:27.865-04:00Go West Old Boy<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>4:55
am: Got on the road headed west to Pennsylvania’s elk range,
picking up a cup of coffee and a cinnamon raisin bagel on the way. Two
hours later, going through a small village that had once been an
important railroad junction, I had to wait while a bull elk crossed
the road. He headed for the edge of town where he posed for some
photos –</b></span></p>
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mile further on another bull grazed along the edge of the road. He
raised his head as the car slowed to a stop –</b></span>
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morning’s light was poor for photos, but some of us
can’t resist the temptation to press the shutter </b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>– thank goodness for photo editing software</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>.</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b> Further on down
the road I stopped at a field that’s maintained as a food plot
specifically for elk. It’s a field I’ve stopped at many times but
where I’ve never seen an elk. But this time – Wow – there was
an elk in the field, a young bull but only that young bull –</b></span><p></p>
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to one of my favorite areas to see elk. Parked the car, headed up the
hill and walked about a mile back into an area that’s remote from
tourists and cell phone photographers. Over the hill and down into the valley
beyond as a bull elk bugled in the distance. Around the next hill a
field came into view and there they were, a small band of elk. To the
naked eye two antlered bulls were visible along with a number of
other elk. It was one of these bulls that was sounding off with a
challenge to any other bulls in the area, including the other bull in
the field.</b></span></b></span></p><p></p>
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</p><div style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b> <span style="color: #2b00fe;"> Make sure your audio is turned on</span></b></span><br /></div><div><p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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bulls had their antlers festooned with grass that they’d raked up –</b></span><p></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>The
larger, more dominant bull </b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>pursued </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>the other bull until the later went up and over the hill
and the dominant bull returned to his harem. He chased a couple of strays back
into the band – to my surprise his harem wasn’t a group of cows,
it consisted of five </b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>1½</b></span><span style="font-size: large;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>year</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b> old </b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>spike bulls –</b></span></p>
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bull resumed bugling, responding to bugles from another elk that was
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I headed toward the other bugling elk. After a while the unseen bull
came into view on the top of a hill covered in goldenrod –</b></span><p></p>
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was the last elk of the day, but I’ll go back.</b></span> <br /><p></p></div>Woody Meristemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17042498252608254901noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389594314135473379.post-83998952930428903002023-10-04T08:52:00.004-04:002023-10-11T22:31:28.203-04:00Osprey Days<p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>On a warm and humid morning that promised to get
just plain hot as the day wore on, increasing the probability of a
thunderstorm, </b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>I’d
taken a short walk in a wooded area</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>. Discretion being the better part of valor, I decided to
drive on to a nearby lake that’s home to a pair of bald eagles and
often hosts wandering wading birds, waterfowl and gulls. A convenient
road borders one side of the lake making observation easy.</b></span></p><p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>September
marks the peak of the fall osprey migration through northcentral
Pennsylvania as they make their way to winter quarters in Central or
South America or perhaps among the islands of the Caribbean. Although
none breed here, we frequently see them along the large streams,
rivers and lakes and sometimes even at a beaver pond.</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b> <br /></b></span></p>
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driven about three-quarters of the way around the lake when an osprey
on the top of a dead tree came into view –</b></span></p>
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there’s a wide pull-off close to the tree that allows the use of a
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followed photo until an immature bald eagle swooped at the osprey,
flushed it, and both birds disappeared behind large groups of trees.
It wasn’t long before the osprey returned to the tree –</b></span><p></p>
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it perched preening, and preening, and preening some more –</b></span><p></p>
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next morning H and I returned to the lake with a better
camera and a longer lens. Unfortunately the weather didn’t
cooperate: the sky was a uniform gray and there was a bit of haze/fog
</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>closer to the ground</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>We’d
driven along the lake, then turned around and headed back the same way when, out in the lake, an osprey dove on a fish. The osprey was followed by
an immature bald eagle that broke off the chase before the osprey landed
on the same limb of the same tree that held an osprey the day before </b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>– was it the same bird?</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b> In its
talons the osprey had a fish –</b></span></p>
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of feeding the osprey looked around nervously –</b></span><p></p>
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a few moments the eagle returned, dove at the osprey and the
chase was on – the twists and turns, zigs and zags were too rapid
for my aging reflexes to follow. After a couple of go-rounds the
osprey disappeared behind a grove of trees and the eagle headed
across the lake –</b></span><p></p>
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the eagle's plumage revealed that the immature eagle had almost certainly been hatched this year and had only been on its own for a few weeks –
no wonder it was in search of an easy meal.</b></span><p></p>
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Woody Meristemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17042498252608254901noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389594314135473379.post-48246400403738979792023-09-27T07:59:00.000-04:002023-09-27T07:59:08.426-04:00BREAKING NEWS: Predator Eats Predator<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Long before
European settlement began, Native Americans had raised corn, beans and
squash in the fertile soils along Pennsylvania’s major rivers and
streams. European diseases and losses during the French and Indian
War and the American Revolution decimated the native societies and
allowed European settlers to move into northcentral Pennsylvania.
Awaiting them were those fertile soils and the meadows that had
developed in the clearings the Native Americans had created, meadows
that were readily transformed into prosperous farms.</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Some
of the settlers’ farms have since become towns and cities, shopping
malls and industrial sites, but many are still raising corn and
soybeans, now on an industrial scale. Several years ago a few hundred
acres of that fertile soil passed into public ownership and is
being restored to its former status as a large open meadow.</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>It
was there I went on a cool gray morning as summer transitioned to
fall. As I stopped to park a hawk burst from a nearby clump of trees
and circled to land atop a nest box erected for kestrels. But this
was no kestrel –</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>It
was a juvenile broad-winged hawk that was atop the nest box and spent
some time looking around, primarily down toward the ground –</b></span></p>
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it plunged into the tall vegetation where it was out of sight.
Obviously it ha</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>d</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>
seen a potential meal, but had it been successful in catching a small
rodent, snake, toad </b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>or
</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>bird?
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>After
several moments it flew back up to land on the nest box once again; and clutched in the hawk’s talons was its meal. Through the
camera’s telephoto lens it was apparent that the hawk had caught a
large preying mantis, </b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>another
predator,</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>
which it proceeded to dismember and eat –</b></span></p>
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quality of the photos and video reflects the fact that they were
taken with the equivalent of a 1200mm lens, handheld at a distance of
almost 80 yards. </b></span><p></p><p align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b></b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b></b></span></p>
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hawk lost part of the preying mantis that fell to the ground. After
eating the remaining portion</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>s</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>
of the mantis, the hawk stared toward its lost portion for a while,
looked around –</b></span></p><p></p>
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