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WSB lists!!!

Well, as promised, here is our list from last year, when it was just us and Jon, I do believe. The amazing paper plate, which has been in the back seat of the car for nearly an entire year!

For those of you interested in the list from 2004, you can find it at the end of the video below. Compare what we've seen with the comprehansive list of 321 NJ species available HERE.

Digiscoping Whiteface Mountain

Here's a sample digiscoping pic from the New Years house. Can pic out the skiers that are a few miles away. The atmospheric distortion over several miles really limited the resolution. Taken with (our former non-waterproof) Nikon Coolpix 4600 and the 90 mm Mak -cassegrain scope that I had up there. 1/193s, f/4.9, ISO 50.

Designer Porta-Jons

Hello everyone,
I came across this link today for designer Porta-Jons for wedding and other "upscale" events. I thought they were funny. http://www.blacktieservices.com/Products/products.asp

Kevin

Bird-a-thon

Has anyone tried this digiscoping thing? Kelly and I read about it in that book about the rediscovery of the ivory-billed woodpecker (lame book) written by one of the birdathon regulars for the cornell team. It seems you look through one lens of your binoculars at the bird and hold your digital camera up to the other lens? Apparently it ranges from that simple to very expensive setups with spotting scopes, attachments to the camera, etc.

Anyways it will be fun to try for this years's birdathon, eh? We gonna meet at High-point state park again? I promide not to attack any bears... but if the park rangers come around and make me dump my booze again I may attack one of them (Whos got my back on THAT one?)

We must formulate a driving strategy to get to different parts of the state this time. And I am gonna make up a huge vat of mac and cheese to keep me going all day.

Moskals, do we have the species list from last time?

Crazy Rabbits...

Monster Rabbit Stalks U.K. Village (But No Sign of Wallace or Gromit)
t's a scenario straight out of a Wallace and Gromit movie: An enormousrabbit is laying waste to vegetable plots in an English village, accordingto reports.The news was first dismissed as an April Fool's joke. But residents ofFelton in northeast England have confirmed that a huge, floppy-earedcreature is leaving behind giant paw prints and a trail of destroyedcarrots, leeks, onions, and turnips following nighttime raids...............
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/04/0411_060411_rabbit.html


Carnivorous rabbits running wild on island
Robben Island museum should call in Wallace and Gromit.While the island doesnot have any of the Were-Rabbits - which the clay duo fought off sosuccessfully that they won an Oscar - it appears the island may beharbouring something even scarier: hundreds of flesh-eating rabbits.Although there is no hard evidence...............
http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=79&art_id=vn20060411020211453C629808

Just in time for this lovely cold front, we're finally posting some pictures from our trip to St. John last month. It was much different this year than last because we were there during spring break. We didn't think college kids would be interested in the park because it's hard to get to and there isn't much to do besides snorkeling and hiking once you get there. But there were lots of spring breakers around -- college kids and families with school aged kids.

We only took our small digital camera this year and we had a waterproof housing for it, but on the day with the best snorkeling the housing started leaking (Murphy's Law of underwater picture taking?) So we don't have very many pictures (or a small digital camera anymore) but here are a few.








There was also a neat incident with a donkey. They are like bears in the National Park and enjoy eating camper's food. Last year we didn't see any at the campsite, but they must have been brought in by the large population of campers this year. We were sitting at our campsite playing cards when we heard a crash and realized that the donkeys had pushed our neighbors food bin off their picinic table and started munching on all their goodies. It was a mom and her baby -- perhaps she was teaching her offspring how to find it's own food? Our other neighbors said a donkey had poked it's head inside their tent earlier in the week while they were in bed and tried to break into their food bin.

Happy Friday!

Friday is like pizza, how can you have a bad friday? Well, here's one way:

It's tourist time in the city

It's spring here now and the tourists have invaded. If it's still snowy and cold where you are, have hope -- warm weather is coming your way eventually.