Posted on March 3, 2013 in Animals, Documentary, Nature, Wildlife, Winter
Yesterday’s post featured the snow geese at Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area blasting off in huge numbers! Today, the opposite – 3 snow geese coming in for a landing! I love watching these birds land! They are so graceful as they glide along, just dropping their legs to touch down at the last minute. Here they are ready to join thousands of other snow geese on the ground at Middle Creek.
Posted on March 2, 2013 in Documentary, Nature, Wildlife, Winter
They’re baaack! The snow geese have returned to Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area in Pennsylvania….by the tens of thousands! Middle Creek is a stop over point on the migration path of the snow geese every year between mid-February and mid-March. It’s an exhilarating sight to see THAT MANY geese take to flight all at the same time! I never tire of watching and hearing the sound of so many wings flapping simultaneously! So cool! Speaking of cool…..it was doggone COLD today standing outside in the field watching the geese for several hours, but well worth it to see this miracle of nature!
Posted on November 10, 2012 in Documentary, Topaz
This is a scene in the Reading Railroad Heritage Museum depicting what the conductor’s office looked like ‘back in the day’. I love the old fan, phone, and lunch box. Life was so much less complicated then!
Posted on February 20, 2012 in Documentary, Nature, Wildlife, Winter
They’re back!!! The snow geese and tundra swans have returned to Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area in Pennsylvania. This is an annual stopping point along their migration route and from mid-February until mid-March, numbers of snow geese as high as 100,000 stop by to pay a visit and roost on the lake. When I visited, the count was 35,000+ snow geese …. this is a photo of 3 of them! I tried counting to make sure that the Middle Creek website was accurate with their numbers, but I lost track after about 12,471. They all started to look alike at that point! 🙂 I love visiting and watching the geese take flight throughout the day! There is nothing like the sight of 35,000 geese taking off together, 70,000 wings flapping, and WOW the sound is just amazing! I have a zillion images to look through but this one stood out at first glance. It appears that the two in the back are playing ‘follow the leader’!
Posted on May 27, 2011 in Animals, Documentary, Pet Photography
I thought this was an appropriate image to depict the kind of week it’s been in my area. We had a tornado touch down in the region earlier this week and last night …. torrential rain, golf ball size hail, and severe thunderstorms. The neighborhood is really a mess – leaves and tree limbs are down everywhere, not to mention the damage done by the hail. It’s becoming more and more common for Eastern PA to have tornado warnings. Thank goodness for my weather radio because we don’t have sirens here! The thing scares the beejeebees out of me, but it IS helpful. Below are two images of last evening’s hail. The good news is that once we get beyond tomorrow, the long range forecast is looking much better.
