chapter 433
6/12/2016
Environmental Restoration
Life is Good
link to Colleen's Trees folder 60 pics
This Cooper's Hawk appeared in my neighbor's woodlot after I'd done extensive clearing. He likes to be able to see the chipmunks more clearly now. He had been flying over during my work and the screeching ACK ACK is a particular sound of this species when signaling the near nest alarm. Had to look it up to confirm since the Sharp Shinned Hawk looks very similar and I believe this guy is the grown adult version of the juvenile I photographed last year chapter 392. I believe the nest is right there in the tall White Pines. Oh, IT IS a spirit animal, but let's not bore too much.
I was proud of myself rigging up an old winch to my truck in order to remove these 200 + pound stumps. All the work was a chore including getting them up to the ground surface. Found out the roots had soaked up fine silt and small pebbles making a concrete like coating quickly dulling a chain saw.
The winch was a throw away item from our old state boat trailer that we used to load up this Boston Whaler (Peconic - Flanders Bay Long Island at the forks). This from a nice collection of photos from my Water Quality Surveys Chapter 181 .
This is from a 2016 DEC report on fish kills in that area. It's signed by Commissioner Gerstman who was a hockey teammate. Note Terry's Creek sampling point # 060230. We tried to reduce the discharge of nitrogen nutrients in that area during my career. Excess algae, organic discharges, and bottom sediments result in deadly low dissolved oxygen in the water. I was all over that area dealing with duck farm waste discharges and the Village of Riverhead.
Brookhaven National Lab article
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