We Made a Wrong Turn…Stop the Car!
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The Daily Post Photo Challenge:
“For this week’s challenge, show us something that surprised you on “the road taken.”
Essex, CT 4/9/2016.
Category Archives: Connecticut
Airborne Lunch
Elegant flyers, gulls winged up into the blue sky with a clams and other treasures pulled from the surf at Long Beach in Stratford.
Let go.
Then chase it to the ground hoping to be the one to retrieve the released lunch.
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Three or four pairs of Yellow-crowned Night-Herons were nesting in this tree. It was hard to tell if the showy display was for the benefit of a mate or to scare off the circling crows. Maybe both.
This fellow paraded back and forth on this limb first showing off.
Then standing sentinel.
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Caught this hawk watching over our backyard bird feeders. The small birds were aware and safely hidden.
North Cove Reflection
Very few birds around North Cove in Essex today even though the water was calm.
A weeping willow is showing a hint of spring across the cove.
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In or Out
Are you inside looking outside or outside looking in?
Mural on the side of a Main Street, Middletown, CT building.
Hartford Icon
If you have driven through Hartford, CT chances are you have seen the “onion dome” atop the Coltsville armory. Zipping by on I-91 you can’t really focus on the detail. These pictures were taken from the Huyshope Avenue side.
The blue sky on this February, 2015 day was a great backdrop to the gold, blue and white of the dome structure.
American Crow
This Crow was wading at the shore of the Connecticut River at Haddam Meadows State Park. As Crows will do, he poked, dunked, and tried to eat any number of things.
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This piece of trash kept his attention for a few minutes then he went back to dunking acorns.
Flood Control
Levees are not that common in Connecticut and it looks like it has been quite awhile since any water has climbed the sides of this one in Windham. Mansfield Hollow Lake is formed, or enlarged, behind the levee and the water empties through a dam into the Willimantic Reservoir.
Walk a little over a mile on the levee to come to the “end of the road” where a gate and sheer walls turn the walkers and joggers back the way they came. It’s hard to imagine the circumstances when water would overflow this structure.
Lovely water reflections made up for not seeing any birds on this December afternoon.
Tropical December 24 in Connecticut
The temperature rose to nearly 70 degrees in central Connecticut today, which is most unusual for December 24th. Late this afternoon I walked around our back yard and was surprised to find a Black-Eyed Susan and a Purple Violet in bloom. Both flowers looked like they had been chewed on, likely by some bug that also shouldn’t be out at this time of year.
The Downy Woodpeckers kept to their routine as the afternoon light waned.
