MALLARD (female) - Composition Sunday
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MALLARD (female) - Composition Sunday
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I kept rounding a mess of brush and FREAKING OUT some heron that was hiding there. Or, maybe it was the same heron.
What do the water birds think of the ice?
This is a good photo for showing the land around the lake. You can imagine the town that was here before it all burned down: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knickerbocker_Ice_Company
Visit Rockland Lake State Park: parks.ny.gov/parks/rocklandlake/details.aspx
February 16, 2025: The weather today will NOT be conducive to hiking. It's not cold enough to snow, so it's just going to rain all over the ice and snow that's already on the ground. It's time like these you need a plowed path with no inclines.
Voila! Today will be the day I "hike" (walk) the bike path around Rockland Lake State Park.
What would become the Knickerbocker Ice Company started here in 1831. (That's 30 years before the Civil War.)
You would harvest ice in the winter, and try to keep it in sawdust-packed warehouses all year to supply New York City. Eventually, we got electricity and refrigerators, and no one needed ice anymore.
How many people lost their jobs? No one bemoans them anymore.
"The last block of ice was harvested from Rockland Lake in 1924 and the Knickerbocker Ice Company closed to the public. Two years later during the demolition of the remaining icehouses, one that was still filled with sawdust to insulate the ice caught fire and destroyed almost all of Rockland Lake Village."
The decline and fall of the Knickerbocker Ice Company: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knickerbocker_Ice_Company
Visit Rockland Lake State Park: parks.ny.gov/parks/rocklandlake/details.aspx
Good for you, people coming out here in the snow earlier!
As for today, I did NOT win the Craziest Person Outside In Near-Freezing Rain Award. That was a tie between the jogger and the person with a stroller.
The decline and fall of the Knickerbocker Ice Company: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knickerbocker_Ice_Company
Visit Rockland Lake State Park: parks.ny.gov/parks/rocklandlake/details.aspx
MUTE SWAN - Composition Monday
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NORTHERN SHOVELER (spatula clypeata) - Composition Saturday
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MALLARD (female) - Composition Wednesday
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GREAT BLUE HERON - Composition Wednesday
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MUTE SWAN - Composition Monday
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BALD EAGLE - Composition Friday
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HOODED MERGANSER - Composition Wednesday
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RED TAILED HAWK - Composition Tuesday
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NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD - Composition Sunday
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MUTE SWAN - Composition Tuesday
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