rmuckey
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<p>"Crick" lilies (wild daylilies) blossoms started to open last week along the streams and ditches</p><div></div>
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<p>Canon 7D, EF 70-200 f4 IS L</p><div></div>
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<p>Swallowtail on stock</p><div></div>
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<p>While watching a male Eastern Bluebird feed it's fledglings , I noted that he returned with a meal about every 2 or 3 min. - that's alot of bugs in the course of a day!</p><div></div>
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<p>This male catbird repeatedly ran through his repertoire of calls while I enjoyed the sights, sounds and smells of our property across the creek back here on Mother Earth </p><div></div>
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<p>Interrupted this young doe's morning drink from a woodland pool at less than 10 yards .</p><div></div>
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Beautiful capture! We always time their arrival by the maples budding and the hummers have arrived early this week. We're about 30 mi.east of you in the hills surrounding Conklin - outside of Binghamton. Unfortunately,this year we have a black bear that has taken to making the rounds and raiding bird feeders. He demo'd our feeder about mid April and has been quite adaptive in gaining access to neighbors feeders and has bent poles and ripped feeders off porch soffits besides breaking the limbs of trees to get to them. We now take our trash out in the morning rather than the night before pick-up day but some neighbors haven't figured that out yet ... As long as it finds food, it'll keep returning so we're not going to put out the oriole or hummingbird feeders this year - hopefully the flowers, trees and shrubs will suffice... Kind of heartracking though when the oriole or the hummer flitters in the windows,as they did previous years,to let us know the syrup was getting low - sorry, but... -
<p>#3 Snoozing in the warm afternoon sun</p><div></div>
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<p>#2 "Honeymooning in local swamp</p><div></div>
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<p>Never ceases to amaze me how quick the signs of spring advance with a few relative warm days. The ponds, rivers and marshes are now open and the calliope of tree frogs and peepers fill the air. Hilltops are twinged red with the buds emerging from the maples and silver"worms" drape from the poplars. Robins, red wings and bluebirds have staked claims to nesting sites and mallards and geese have paired off as the great migrant flocks have passed - leaving behind new seasonal residents.</p><div></div>
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<p>Middle of last week, the ice on the pond across the road was just beginning to melt when this heron stopped to look for a meal(pond is now ice free and the swallows are picking out nest boxes)</p><div></div>
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<p>A couple of near 60' days and the 1st crocus blossoms appeared - only to be covered with an inch or so of fresh snow. Got to love spring time in the NE</p><div></div>
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<p>About 1 PM photo submissions in critique forum appeared normal again - no thumbnail/link icons.</p>
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<p>So far this AM photos in the critique forum are not available for review in a hit and miss pattern. Photo thumbnails are hidden as in too large an image but when I click on the thumbnail - nothing shows anyways, see attached screen shot. To my knowledge I have not changed any of my settings re: Google, photo.net and or Norton. Was not a problem before - result of p.net's update ?</p><div></div>
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