Monthly Archives: May 2010

“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.” ~William Makepeace Thackeray

Mother Bald Eagle tears off bits of fish and feeds it to her young Eaglet. She has two chicks in the nest. The other chick was further back and would pop it’s head up for a share of fish every so often. At this early age, the eaglets are totally reliant on Mother and Father...

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Look what Mommy brought me to eat !

A Red Fox Kit walks the rotting catfish that the Mother Fox brought him, back to the den to share with the other Kits. I watched as the Mother Fox carried this enormous rotting catfish all the way down the wildlife drive around Raymond Pool. She would go for a hundred feet then sit the...

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Gamera versus Bombay Hook NWR

I saw this Snapping Turtle on several different laps of the Raymond Pool loop at Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge on Saturday. When I took this photo, he was on the move heading up road against traffic, oblivious to the one way signs. With his massive size and prehistoric looks, he reminded me of the...

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Safe crossing ?

Klinepeters Covered Bridge was originally built over Middle Creek north of Beaver Springs on Township Route 574 in Snyder County. It was moved to it’s present location on Township Route 427 in Beaver Springs in 1982. It now spans 100 feet across a small run off tributary of Middle Creek. It has a Burr Arch...

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A powerful giant in its time…

Pennsylvania Railroad No. 5901. PRR Class EP20. Purchased 12/1976 from Penn Central Corp. Restored by RMPA to late 1940s-early 1950s appearance. 1st psgr diesel on PRR. It has a fuel oil capacity 1200 gallons and weighs 315,000 lbs when fully loaded. More information on this locomotive can be found on this page. Railroad Museum of...

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Oh to be a horse…

Two horses graze in a field in front of the Bertolet barn at the Daniel Boone Homestead. It was really windy today with gusts up to 50MPH so it was a challenge to try and find things to photograph. The value of a good quality sturdy tripod cannot be underestimated on a day like today....

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Glade Creek – Babcock State Park – West Virginia

From my rainy Saturday 10-17-2009 trip to Glade Creek Grist Mill at Babcock State Park in Clifftop, West Virginia. There was a section of rock that jutted out about a third of the way across the creek and you could walk out on it and take some interesting upstream compositions. I noticed the stillness of...

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