Saturday, May 30, 2009 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY
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Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - Male, Red Rock, East Chatham NY, May 30, 2009
I found a Yellow Bellied Sapsucker nest on my evening walk
I just got lucky. On my evening walk I decided to see if the Great Horned Owls I saw the other evening (there's a picture of one of the owls in the Birds Series of my Photography pages) were around and while staked out on the ridge I was scolded by a male Yellow-bellied Sapsucker returning to the nest. I managed to get a couple decent shots of him and his mate and tomorrow I'll put up a picture of the female.
Night camp
On my property off Less Traveled Road - The Home Place, Red Rock, East Chatham NY
- I used to camp in a few locations on what little I had left of the family farm
- In the driveway by the house
- Across the road where the barn once stood
- On the 20 acre piece off Less Traveled Road
- Now, with the kind support of the friends who now own the place, I camp across the road where the barn once stood.
- Verizon cell phone service - Terrible, barely usable with an amplifier
- Verizon EVDO service - Terrible, barely usable with an amplifier
- Find other references to Home Place
- List the nights I've camped here
- Check the weather here
Running With the Pack
Hardly anyone out there is going to take this seriously, but TV changes you. The kicker is that if you watch it all the time, you'll never know, which under normal circumstances ought to scare you shitless...
No amount of sermonizing will make a difference here, so I'll move on. But I'm telling you, it's true. If you disconnect from the medium long enough to stop associating certain days and times with TV shows you're used to watching, you WILL be different, with values and behavior that arise from sources you never knew existed. There is no arguing with this, you simply have to experience it.