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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
12-21-2020, 08:05 PM
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That's a long way from Vancouver!
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
12-21-2020, 05:35 PM
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LOL, I haven't seen one at Holly Shelter, but I was at Patsy Pond a couple weeks ago, after walking trails for several miles and not seeing much of anything, one flew to a tree right near me, a hundred yards from the parking lot. After being there several hours and seeing beautiful scenery but very little wildlife, The woodpeckers show up, then an eastern bluebird, pine warbler, and a flock of yellow-rumped warblers pretty much surrounded me for a few minutes. And of course some people stopped and talked then waste some of that time. It's a small world. I live about an hour south. Croatan National Forest, which Patsy Pond is in is very similar to Holly Shelter in may ways.
 Red-cockaded Woodpecker by Tom Ramsey, on Flickr
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
12-21-2020, 11:00 AM
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It’s kind of Mesmerizing when I go there, I’ll just sit there and look at it. I’d like to walk further in but don’t have the boots for that, several poisonous snakes in the area. It’s pretty much the sole habitat for the red cockaded woodpecker, although I haven’t found any yet. It seems that where this system meets the swamp is where the carnivorous plants are found.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
12-21-2020, 07:38 AM
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This is in the Holly Shelter Game Lands, Pender County, North Carolina. The ecosystem in the photo is called a longleaf pine savanna, there is a lot of this in Holly Shelter, broken by areas with underbrush and by swamps. The gate to get in is about a ten minute drive for me.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
06-09-2020, 08:55 PM
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I took two very similar shots tonight that I liked, I thought one may be a good black and white conversion so this one is it.
 Walk on the Beach by Tom Ramsey, on Flickr
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
07-30-2017, 06:10 PM
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They do look kind of Blancmange-like
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