Tag: spring
member name: Roy ☯ Hilbinger
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May 31, 2007 08:53 PM EDT --
Out on the Cliff Walk today I stumbled upon a Bearded Iris and decided to do a macro study of it. Well, okay, there was a bug foraging down in there and that helped me decide to pull out the macro lens . . .
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May 31, 2007 09:28 PM EDT --
Okay, so I've been looking at this tree for years now and I'm still clueless as to what it is. It's on the Cliff Walk in the Salve Regina University area. I can't find this in either the . . .
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March 11, 2008 03:59 PM EDT --
I took a walk down to the beach and back this morning. These are some of the things that caught my eye.
Easter is so early this year that I was wondering if there would be any Spring flowers up in . . .
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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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March 13, 2008 07:12 PM EDT --
I came out of the tunnel under the Chinese Tea House and up the hill a little way and what did I see in the water but a group of Red-Fronted Mergansers. After watching them for a little while I saw the . . .
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April 02, 2008 07:08 PM EDT --
I decided to go for a walk on the Cliff Walk today. It was sunny but very, very windy. I had planned to start the hike with a walk on Easton's Beach, but the wind on the beach was so bad that I decided . . .
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May 05, 2008 06:16 PM EDT --
I went down to Big Pond today to see if I could find that Snapper again, but still no luck. But I got a lot of other interesting shots there, as well as on the Cliff Walk a little later.
While walking . . .
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May 24, 2008 07:36 PM EDT --
I figured today would be a good day to head out to the Sachuest Point National Wildlife Refuge again - sunny, warm, and a light breeze. Well, it was definitely a good day out there. Lots of birds around, . . .
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March 11, 2009 05:19 PM EDT --
I know a lot of people have had their flowers blooming for a bit now and have been flooding Gather with celebrations of Spring. But here on the New England coast Spring comes a bit more slowly and a little . . .
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March 13, 2008 06:46 PM EDT --
On the Cliff Walk section of my hike today I saw a sure sign of Spring - the Common Loons are starting to transition into their Summer plumage. There are still many in Winter plumage still, but you can . . .
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May 25, 2008 11:06 PM EDT --
My usual Sunday jaunt down to Ballard Park and Gooseneck Cove. The foliage is now full and there's lots of shade. There was a nice cooling breeze out of the NW but it was still a warm day.
In . . .
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April 01, 2009 04:53 PM EDT --
While out walking yesterday, I cut through the woods in the back end of Morton Park. I was walking up the path when wings passed over me, and when I looked up I saw a juvenile Redtailed Hawk carrying . . .
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April 14, 2009 06:00 PM EDT --
I went for a long hike today, over to Sachuest Point, Sachuest Beach, and the salt marsh behind Third Beach. Not all the shots I took turned out well, but these three I can live with.
A Chipping Sparrow . . .
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May 05, 2009 08:36 PM EDT --
Sunday was another of what the Irish would call a "soft day" - overcast, humid, mild, and occasional light showers. I went back down to Ballard Park to see if I could convince some songbirds . . .
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May 17, 2009 07:35 PM EDT --
I went down to Ballard Park today to see how the wildflowers situation is coming along. Eureka! The Lily-of-the-Valley and the Canada Mayflower on the Valley Trail are in full bloom and smelling so sweet. . . .
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April 04, 2009 05:39 PM EDT --
I was a little late getting out on my walk today. By the time I got to where I was going, everybody was taking a pre-lunch nap, like this Mute Swan couple on Gooseneck Cove and the Mallard couple on the . . .
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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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May 22, 2009 09:01 PM EDT --
Actually, they've been back for a couple of weeks now; it's just that this week has been the first time I've been able to settle down with the telephoto lens and spend some time with these cute little . . .
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May 30, 2009 10:26 PM EDT --
That's the title of an old Middle English song, a round, and it translates as "Summer is a-comin' in". And indeed it is. A trip through Ballard Park today yielded some more flower shots, and these are . . .
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April 16, 2008 07:09 PM EDT --
Today I decided to focus on using the Super Macro setting on my camera. I got the idea when I saw a bunch of Reindeer Lichen and Haircap Moss growing amid each other on my favorite overlook in Ballard . . .
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