Oriental, Sailing Capital of NC

Oriental, Sailing Capital of NC

Greetings from the Neuse River

Life here along the banks of the Neuse River, overlooking close to four miles of water, is a sharp contrast to living in a city. Most months, it is idyllic; then, there are the months that remind you that Mother Nature is definitely in charge.

This neighborhood of houses face the Neuse River and backs up to several acres of farmland -- most years, soybean --- then thick tracts of pine forests to the main road.

I love to watch the sea gulls, sometimes the pelicans, and cormorants or egrets and the occasional eagle or osprey. The cute visitors are "chickens" that my neighbor called me about photographing who were grazing in her yard. Even at 100 feet away, they were skittish and flew to the further neighbor's yard but just enough for me to photograph them for identification. These "chickens" turned out to be cattle egrets. The flock numbered about thirty -- by the river bank...not sure why they picked her yard.

I suppose you could say this blog is an occasional picture-book of life in Pamlico County or whatever comes to mind at the time.

Monday, February 20, 2012

Demise of Cedar Waxwing

Driving home last week, this beautiful creature couldn't seem to rise fast enough to clear the edge of my windshield. I turned around to rescue it though I knew there was not much I could do. But, it was too beautiful to allow a car to run over it. A local bird expert told me that it may have gotten drunk off eating berries. Cedar waxwing will be a part of an educational "show and tell" soon. At least its great beauty will be prolonged and be shared. Notice the orange tuffs at the edge of its wings.
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Monday, February 6, 2012

GULL a la Jonathan

 
The fields have become playgrounds for the gulls.
We're talking, sometimes, hundreds of them. 
When I walk the dog, they will fly low, over Kinu
and I, and it is just a magnificent scene. 
I never tire of watching them. 





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