
January 17th. Sixteen degrees after a dusting of pellet snow overnight.
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Went searching for the Survey Marker near this sign. I found it years ago, but not today.
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Hmm, frustrated duck hunter shoot the sign sometime?
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Found my pictures from November 26, 2010. The buckshot goes back a long way.
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Ha! The Survey Marker was in front of the sign. I probably stepped over it.
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It's embedded in a large rock.
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I went back to get a close up view of the Survey Marker.
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Pretty morning light on the marsh.
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Speckled Alder (Alnus rugosa) showing next Spring's male (long) and female (short) catkins.
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My lucky day! A pair of Bobcats (Lynx rufus) down near Old Colchester Road. I was several hundred feet away. Shot taken at 1365mm telephoto, then cropped for screen display.
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Only the third time I've seen Bobcats on the trail in over 23 years.
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Digital "noise" due to high ISO in low light.
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January 18th. Clouds moving in. Rain expected later before snow and then extreme cold arrive in the next several days.
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January 20th. About 4 inches of snow last night; first significant snow of the year. Parking lot on Route 85 in Amston/Hebron.
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Fluffy enough that walking was easy.
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With showers before the snow, the snow stuck to the branches.
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Snow must have arrived on breezes from the north, coating tree trunks on the north side.
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I liked the composition of this photo; the branches above framing the walker. Long telephoto version of the previous photo.
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I'm leaning towards a Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus), but my ID skills are lousy.
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The bird came quite close to me but was badly backlit. I tried to correct for that but who knows how well I did.
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January 22nd. Early afternoon at Raymond Brook Marsh. Fourteen degrees, and not another person on the trail. Looking East...
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...or looking West.
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Raymond Brook looking East from Old Colchester Road.
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