Tag: salt marsh
member name: Roy ☯ Hilbinger
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April 24, 2007 10:36 PM EDT --
Living in Newport, RI, hikes on my days off can be interesting. It's typical rocky, hilly New England here, but we're also on the Atlantic Ocean and so have beaches, tidal inlets, salt marshes, . . .
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July 12, 2007 10:56 PM EDT --
So, last week on the 4th of July I took you on a tour of the lower trails in the Norman Bird Sanctuary (see the article here). This time we're back and we're going to climb (and that's literal . . .
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August 28, 2007 10:28 PM EDT --
I live in Newport, RI, and there's an area here that has become my spiritual home. It's where I go to recharge at least once a week, where I lose myself in nature, and where I often take my best . . .
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December 11, 2009 11:06 PM EST --
Not long ago my fellow Blogger blogger Baino dropped a hint that she'd like to see a post on Gooseneck Cove through the seasons. Good idea, thinks I! Except I couldn't do it justice in my usual . . .
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September 28, 2007 09:45 PM EDT --
On my weekly walk through Ballard Park and around Gooseneck Cove today I noticed that the fall Asters are out in force, so I thought I'd share them with you.
First we have some Swamp Asters, also . . .
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December 06, 2007 04:34 PM EST --
The leaves have fallen from the trees, the temperatures have dropped, even the quality of daylight has changed. Winter is arriving, affecting the places I love best - Ballard Park and Gooseneck Cove. . . .
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January 08, 2008 06:38 PM EST --
On today's hike I bumped into some fellow birders down on Hazard Rd. by Gooseneck Cove. One of them regularly comes to feed the ducks cracked corn in the winter, so when they see his car they come . . .
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July 11, 2008 07:15 PM EDT --
I went walking down to Ballard Park and Gooseneck Cove today. Our extreme humidity dried up some (well, as dry as it can get when you're surrounded by ocean and a bay), so hiking yesterday and today . . .
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July 26, 2008 05:37 PM EDT --
(Note: I am not sharing a post; I'm publishing an article, specifically a photo essay. Gather, will you PLEASE go back to using adult terminology?)
It's a nice sunny Saturday in Newport, . . .
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December 28, 2008 05:29 PM EST --
Add together these ingredients: the New England seacoast, still with some remnants of a snowstorm (snow piles) and cold weather (ice on standing water), overtaken by warm, wet air. The result: a fog so . . .
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April 19, 2009 11:12 PM EDT --
Well, the Winter flocks have pretty much moved on; there are just a few Mallards and Canada Geese left who usually stay here year round. But the Pintails and the Teal and the Mergansers and the Grebes . . .
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November 15, 2009 05:47 PM EST --
Every two weeks a guy named Jay leads a bird walk from the Norman Bird Sanctuary in Middletown, RI. We don't just concentrate our attention on the sanctuary, but travel to different prime birding places . . .
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November 01, 2008 07:30 PM EDT --
This was a good day for birding on Gooseneck Cove. My buddy Jack Kelly showed up not long after I'd gotten down there on Hazard Rd. I had been down the farther end of the road when I saw a Great Blue . . .
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January 10, 2009 10:30 PM EST --
It's been chilly lately - overnight lows in the tweties and daytime highs only in the low thirties. So I wasn't surprised to come down Hazard Rd. today to find the entire upper Gooseneck Cove . . .
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July 20, 2009 03:13 PM EDT --
Two views of Gooseneck Cove, looking north from Ocean Drive. As you can see, it was a gorgeous day in Newport yesterday.
© 2009 by A. Roy Hilbinger
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November 01, 2008 07:00 PM EDT --
The Wheel turns,
the year wanes;
the Dark Half of the year
appears on the stage.
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December 20, 2008 06:16 PM EST --
We finally got a good snow storm, and just a couple of days before the Winter Solstice. Timing is everything! I went for a walk to see the sights in my spiritual home in Ballard Park and Gooseneck Cove. . . .
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June 26, 2009 05:09 PM EDT --
I went walking yesterday, seeing as it would be the last rainless day for at least a week. I took a lot of pictures, but most of them were experiments that didn't work. However, I got these three, which . . .
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August 25, 2009 05:15 PM EDT --
Walking around today, I arrived at the Hazard Rd. end of Gooseneck Cove when conditions were exactly right: overcast, soft light, high tide, calm waters, and birds feeding. I knew things were going right . . .
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September 20, 2009 04:49 PM EDT --
The day started at 8 am with a trip out to the Norman Bird Sanctuary for their every-other-Sunday bird walk. It was a long walk today, out the entrance and down Third Beach Rd. to the salt marsh behind . . .
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