Re: birds and other critters now NE PA

Pam, I'm in Pocono Summit, and the lake is Stillwater Lake. It's one of the
largest in the area and is shared by a private community and a Boy Scout
camp. Before the age of refrigeration, there was an ice-cutting plant here
that supplied New York City. Strange lake; it's said to be glacial in
origin, and the average depth is 4.75 feet, the deepest part is 8 feet. We
have large- and small-mouth bass, pickerel, bluegills and crayfish (too
small to eat). More than you wanted to know, I'm sure.

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> Maria - what lake - where are you in NE PA??
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>> The lake here is 315 acres, and lots of migratory waterfowl stop here. I've
>> seen ruddy duck, buffleheads, goldeneyes, mergansers and cormorants, among
>> others, but the most exciting sighting was a flock of loons. I counted 38 of
>> them! There are also great blue and green herons and kingfishers. I
>> occasionally see rose-breasted grosbeaks at my feeder, and just once, an
>> indigo bunting. I've also seen quite a few eastern bluebirds in NE PA, but
>> not at this elevation. There are bald eagles in the area, too. Auralie, have
>> you ever heard that there are peregrines nesting on the George Washington
>> Bridge? I think they live quite well on the pigeons in NYC.
>> 
>> There is a rapidly growing population of resident Canadas here, and the
>> Animal Control officer finds as many nests as he can in the spring and
>> shakes the eggs vigorously, then puts them back. It prevents the parents
>> from laying more eggs to replace broken or stolen ones. Unfortunately, he
>> misses more than he finds. It wouldn't be so bad if I only had to watch my
>> step in the yard, but my dog has goose poop radar, and she's on it like
>> white on rice. Groshem as they never
>>>> land here:-)  I've never seen a scarlet tanager; lucky you!
>>>> 
>>>> When we first built here and things were a tad more open, we had a
>>>> few red-wings, but they don't like woods, so don't come now. The
>>>> mocking birds aren't as numerous as they were for the same
>>>> reason...they like more open areas best; actually, same with the
>>>> starlings.  Used to have a resident family, but only see them in
>>>> flocks in winter now when snow covers everything as they like grassy
>>>> areas to hunt in.  I have seen red tailed hawks, but not on the
>>>> property...we seem to have a resident pair of red-shouldered hawks as
>>>> they are seen pretty regularly sitting in trees looking down for
>>>> rodents (they can have all they want...I encourage them...'catch
>>>> voles...catch voles'...all I can:-))  Not so thrilled when they
>>>> decide to hunt at the feeders!  But they are magnificent birds.
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>>> We're really very rustic even though part of the great "metropolitan
>>> sprawl."
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>>> Auralie
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>>> In a message dated 02/17/2003 11:55:44 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>>> mtalt@hort.net writes:
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>>>> That is remarkable, Auralie.  You must have some open fields and
>>>> water near you to have red-wing blackbirds, kingfishers, mallards and
>>>> heron.  I get a flock of Canada geese flying over every evening on
>>>> their way to the Potomac River, but can't claim them as they never
>>>> land here:-)  I've never seen a scarlet tanager; lucky you!
>>>> 
>>>> When we first built here and things were a tad more open, we had a
>>>> few red-wings, but they don't like woods, so don't come now. The
>>>> mocking birds aren't as numerous as they were for the same
>>>> reason...they like more open areas best; actually, same with the
>>>> starlings.  Used to have a resident family, but only see them in
>>>> flocks in winter now when snow covers everything as they like grassy
>>>> areas to hunt in.  I have seen red tailed hawks, but not on the
>>>> property...we seem to have a resident pair of red-shouldered hawks as
>>>> they are seen pretty regularly sitting in trees looking down for
>>>> rodents (they can have all they want...I encourage them...'catch
>>>> voles...catch voles'...all I can:-))  Not so thrilled when they
>>>> decide to hunt at the feeders!  But they are magnificent birds.
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