Re: birds and other critters now NE PA

Funny - my father says the lake at Bear Creek was used for commercial
ice production as well. I asked my father, this place is where ice comes
from and you want to live there?? He was not amused.

I thought it was funny. oh well.

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: cathy carpenter <cathyc@rnet.com>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Wed, 19 Feb 2003 08:15:23 -0600

>Such a shallow lake! Most of our farm ponds are deeper here.
>Cathy, west central IL, z5b
>On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 07:22 AM, Maria Olshin wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>>>
>>> Maria - what lake - where are you in NE PA??
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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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>>>>> To sign-off this list, sendve been seeing them for several years now.
>>>>> We're really very rustic even though part of the great "metropolitan
>>>>> sprawl."
>>>>>
>>>>> Auralie
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> In a message dated 02/17/2003 11:55:44 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>>>>> mtalt@hort.net writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> 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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