Monthly Archives: January 2010 A Great Egret takes short repositioning flight over Raymond Pool at the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge outside of Smyrna, Delaware back on 7-18-2009. When they have too much competition for fish in one area they will often fly a hundred feet or so and start fishing again. When you get a couple hundred Egrets...  Mallard drake sits on the edge of the ice on the pond at the Fleetwood Park. Thanks to flickr member pareerica for the use of the texture.  Hot air balloons drift off over miles of adjoining farm fields after their early morning launch at the New Jersey Festival of Ballooning at the Airport in Readington, NJ back on 7-25-2009. For more information on 2010′s New Jersey Festival of Ballooning, visit their web site. Thanks to flickr member darkwood67 for the use of...  Humboldt penguin checks himself out at the Philadelphia Zoo. In the wild, the Humboldt penguin is found on the west coast of South America along the coast of Chile and Peru in the region of the cold water Humboldt current. Humboldt penguins nest on islands or on rocky stretches of mainland coast, especially in areas...  A snowy Egret takes flight and flies across my path. I had been watching this guy for an hour while he sat on a the edge of one of the water tunnels that allows water to move between the marshes and through the dike. He would take flight, circle around and come back to the...  Train tracks from the former Catasauqua and Fogelsville Railroad that used to haul raw materials into the complex at the Lock Ridge Iron Furnace in Alburtis, PA. The Furnace opened in 1868 during the peak of the anthracite iron industry and operated until shortly after World War One. Since 1970, the 59 acre site has...  A Black-necked Stilt reaches for a tasty morsel of food in the Shearness Pool at Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge outside of Smyrna, DE on Saturday 7-18-2009. For more information on the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, visit their web site at http://www.fws.gov/northeast/bombayhook/. For more information on Black-necked Stilts visit the Cornelll Lab Of Ornithology. |
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