Monthly Archives: March 2009 Odd Fellows Cemetery in Centralia, PA. In 1962, a group of volunteer fireman in Centralia were hired to burn some municipal trash in an open landfill next to this cemetery. What they didn’t know is that the landfill had a coal seem that met the surface and the burning trash ignited the coal, starting an...  These are the decaying remains of the miner’s wash house in Byrnesville, Pennsylvania. The wash house was part of the Raven Run Coal Company. The building was once used as a garage for the company ambulance, a lamp house that serviced miner’s lamps used in the mines and a place for miners to wash after...  A Tufted Titmouse dives in to knock a White-breasted Nuthatch off of one of the feeders at the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in Basking Ridge, NJ on Sunday 3-15-2009. For more information on the Great Swamp Wildlife Refuge, visit their web site at http://www.fws.gov/northeast/greatswamp/.  This is an adult Bald Eagle, one of over 100 raptors of 20 different species found at the Raptor Trust, a private, non-profit facility dedicated to the preservation and well-being of birds of prey. It is located next to the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in Millington, New Jersey. The facility is very well run...  t’s mating season for the Mallard Ducks. I think maybe we should let these two have some “alone time”. Taken at the Fleetwood Park Pond on Sunday 3-8-2009.  American Flamingo at the National Aviary in Pittsburgh, PA. From my 1-17-2009 trip to the Aviary. These birds are quite the contortionists. For more information on the National Aviary and how you can help support this great oasis for birds please visit www.aviary.org  Canada Goose taking a drink from one of the water areas at the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in northern New Jersey on Monday 3-9-2009. For more information on the Great Swamp NWR, visit their web site at http://www.fws.gov/northeast/greatswamp/. |
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