There is an effort by The Nature Conservancy to reestablish oysters in the bay. The oysters are filter feeders and will help clean up the bay. They are laying beds of shells and seeding them with oyster spat. Hopefully the spat will survive and grow and establish colonies. Oyster Barge Mark’s blueberries are starting to …
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Late June NEHiN
I am getting behind in my blogging again. Summer is in full swing here and we are busy but not so busy that I should have been able to get my blogging done. The babies are out and about. Baby Deer Baby Woodchuck There is also the usual activity going on in the yard. Buck …
Y NEHiN – Late Spring
This is an update to last Winter’s blog: YNEHiN. It was shown that Nuttin Evah Happens in NewMahket because our yard provides three things: Food, Water and Cover/Habitat. We now can see the results of all of that. FOOD There is a lot of natural food but we still maintain our bird feeders. Deck Bird …
Road Trip X – Wilson’s Creek Battlefield
Wilson’s Creek was the site of the second major battle of the American Civil War. It is in Missouri and occurred shortly after the first battle of Bull Run. It was a Union defeat and the first Union General to die in the war was killed in this battle. It was memorial day and they …
Road Trip IX – Rocky Mountain National Park
We drove from Dinosaur National Monument to Boulder CO. via Rocky Mountain National Park. We had hoped to get to the Visitor Center and walk up to view the continental Divide. The trip to Newmarket would be downhill from that location: 14,000 ft to 0 ft. Moose Elk Snow Home is downhill from here …
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Road Trip VIII – Dinosaur National Monument
I think this was my favorite stop. We stayed at the Dinosaur Inn in Vernal Utah. The people were pleasant and the food was marvelous. There is a museum in town and it was a short drive to the park. It is definitely worth doing. There are dinosaur statues outside the Utah Field House of …
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Road Trip VII – Great Salt Lake
We went to Antelope Island, a peninsula extending into the Great Salt Lake. Our hope was to see migrating shore birds and collect some sand from the beach. We were warned that the bugs would be bad and we should take protective action. Great Salt Lake Views Meadowlark The birding was not especially good on …
Road Trip VI – Canyon de Chelly
We next visited Canyon de Chelly on the Navajo Reservation. It is a national monument that is still inhabited by a few Navajo residents. It’s name in Navajo meant, water comes from it. Right now they are in the middle of a six year drought and so it is pretty dry. Organized tours require a …
Road Trip V – Grand Canyon
The next stop was at the Grand Canyon. There were two parts to this stop, Horseshoe Bend and the North Rim. We visited Horseshoe Bend late in the evening and got a cabin on the North Rim. There are no fences at the rim and the rock is sandy. I erred and wore flip flops …
Road Trip IV – Meteor Crater and Petrified Forest National Park
Meteor Crater National Landmark Meteor Crater was on the way to the Petrified Forest and so we stopped there to gawk. Apparently, it is enough like the moon that NASA used it as a training base. Here is the crater: At the bottom of the crater is an astronaut and flag similar to the moon …
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