Virginia Wildlife
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If you climb to the top of two-tired Virginia Falls in Glacier National Park, you will be fascinated with the views. It starts with sparkling crystal clear water in a riverbed lined with striking colorful pebbles of different shades of red and green. At formation, small amounts of iron in their composition combined with varying oxygen levels determined their colors. Red means oxygen was present and green means the air was lacking oxygen.
You see a gorgeous two-tiered waterfall that seems to vanish into what was once a lush forest when looking down the slope. A past forest fire left its scars on the land. Raise your eyes higher, and you see some of the towering peaks found in Glacier National Park.
Virginia Rails, as many marsh birds, are not really rare, but hard to find because they are so secretive.
The marsh at Lake St.Clair Metropark was thick with dry cattails, and because of constant rain this Spring, the water level was unusually high. For these reasons, many birds were forced into more open view. Happily, a Sora and this Virginia Rail gave good views for me.
Life Bird Photograph #246
Another beautiful example of the historic architecture of Wheeling West Virgina.
93 12th Street. This building was built in approximately 1900 and while the Wheeling Historic District doesn't seem to extend this far on 12th street, this building certainly qualifies in my book.
This shot was taken under very cloudy skies which just shows on some days it pays to lug the tripod around.
I think it has been three years since I first caught a glimpse of a Virginia Rail hiding in the weeds, today I got my first photo. It still didn't come out in the open, but I think it made for a few interesting shots of the elusive Rail.
A pair of fishermen fishing in the nearby river at the campground that I stayed at in Virgina.
I could not make up my mind on which orientation looked better here.
It's surprising to me that there are any songbirds left since the Hawk has taken up residence here. But the flip side is the 6-8 squirrels that were always attempting to get in the squirrel proof feeders has dwindled down to one! For that I am very grateful! :)
Drove my daughter and all her stuff down to college in Alabama. Stopped from time to time to snap some photos.
The cave salamander (Eurycea lucifuga) in its natural habitat, showcasing its striking orange hues and spotted patterns.
As the COVID-19 landscape begins to evolve as here in New Jersey on Monday 5/18 non-essential businesses are opening to curbside pickup, more digging through my photographic archives I found this image circa 1983, Virginia Beach Virginia, at Fort Story which is at Cape Henry. Fort Story today is actually a Joint Expeditionary military base at Cape Henry which marks the southern entrance to Chesapeake Bay was the first landing of the English explorers that would travel into the bay and up the James River where the colony of Jamestown was built. This image taken on Kodak 100 color film with the silhouette of the Old Cape Henry Lighthouse was taken as my younger brother and I at the time a college student explored Fort Story, we would eventually go up to the top of the lighthouse which afforded a beautiful view of the bay and the current Cape Henry Lighthouse. This lighthouse was in fact the first federally funded public works project of the fledgling United States; ordered by first US president George Washington and its construction overseen by Alexander Hamilton himself. When my brother and I entered Fort Story back in 1983, the NIKE missiles had been retired for almost a decade and the primary military use of the land was for training for simulating invasions.
Parthenocissus quinquefolia, Greek, literally meaning
"virgin ivy," is a prolific deciduous climber. It climbs surfaces using small fork tendrils tipped with small, strongly adhesive pads. The vine adheres by disks rather than penetrating roots, so it does not harm masonry.
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