New Hampshire Naturally

[T-Man]

Spring is here! :cool:
I looked under my deck and found this!:eek:
A Robin' nest.
I had to post before the wife did!:D

http://www.modeltrainforum.com/gallery/files/3/5/2/deck3upj.jpg

[Boston&Maine]

LOL, there are two bird's nests under the deck for my pool... I can not see what is in them though because I can not get my head up high enough... Maybe I should use my camera :o

As long as we are on the topic of birds, I saw a Cardinal today... For all the n00bs out there, that is New Hampshire's state bird ;)

[T-Man]

I recently chaperoned a field trip to Strawberry Banke and Portsmouth Harbor.
This is the Historic Moffett-Ladd House as viewed by the river.Not on our tour but I couldn't resist the shot.

http://www.modeltrainforum.com/gallery/files/3/5/2/port1up.jpg

[T-Man]

Something for you landlubbers, the Portsmouth Tugs.

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[T-Man]

The Pink Ladyslipper
A rare plant and protected.
This is the second year we spotted them out back. :cool:

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[Boston&Maine]

Look what I came across while riding up the old Boston&Maine track bed on my bike... It looks like he was hiding out in a beaver dam... I have not seen a lake turtle like this since I was a little kid :)

http://www.modeltrainforum.com/gallery/files/1/9/0/turtle.jpg

[T-Man]

:thumbsup::thumbsup: For the Turtle :thumbsup: You're lucky it wasn't a snapper!:eek:
Back to the harbor cruise ,I included Crane 21. I didn't want to torture you with a lot of crane pictures but I had to show one. It may date back to the forties.FYI This sight is also Henderon's Point, the largest single exploison for it's time. The purpose was to remove the bedrock and make the channel larger.

http://www.modeltrainforum.com/gallery/files/3/5/2/port4up.jpg

[T-Man]

Portsmouth Harbor Light

Check out Stan Kolaks Ceiling Layout. He's got a Lighthouse!:D

http://www.modeltrainforum.com/gallery/files/3/5/2/port3up.jpg

[Boston&Maine]

:thumbsup::thumbsup: For the Turtle :thumbsup: You're lucky it wasn't a snapper!:eek:

I had to move one of those out of my driveway down to a nearby marsh when I was younger... I could barely lift the thing, and its claws were sharp!!! :knock_teeth_out:

[T-Man]

Everybody knows about this trail except me:( From Manchester to Newfields I've heard .Information on this is scarce. Trails .com wants you to be a member with a credit card number. Good Grief! I checked the state's web site and zippo. Do you have a source?:confused:

After looking below::rolleyes: Thanks Boston and Maine !:thumbsup: I have it in favorites now!

[Boston&Maine]

I never knew about that trail either, thank you for posting it! I just searched on Google and found this site (http://www.nashuacitystation.com/trails.php)... Scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page and it is the second to last entry... I always saw trails around Lake Massabesic but never knew what they were...

That trail looks really cool, I think I may head up there some day :D

[T-Man]

Spotted this fellah at Castle in the Clouds in Moultonboro, NH. Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey to be the national bird.I have seen a few this year but this is the first chance I get to photograph one.

http://www.modeltrainforum.com/gallery/files/3/5/2/turkey.jpg

[T-Man]

I took my son out on the old B&M Line trail. It was easy to find at Rockingham Junction. I found out I needed a better bike seat.:laugh:
Just as we returned I got pictures of the Guilford Freight Train.What luck:D. I posted them in the Proto Type Gallery. The station pictures didn't come out too much contrast in them.


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[Boston&Maine]

Those pictures look great T-Man, that is one mighty lashup Guilford Rail has there! :D

[T-Man]

We have two robin chicks in the nest under the deck.

Baby Birds got their wings yesterday and flew away. 6/20/08

http://www.modeltrainforum.com/gallery/files/3/5/2/robinup.jpg

[T-Man]

A quick shot through a window, Lake Winnipesaukee, Wolfboro,NH. A storm was coming and they swam in from the lake.


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[Boston&Maine]

That trail looks really cool, I think I may head up there some day :D

Well, I am going to take a drive up to Raymond Depot tomorrow to get pictures of the station... I will go for a bike ride some other time since it is a lot easier to run into old stations that way...

Speaking of old stations, my picture thread will be updated soon, and have a map! :eek:

[T-Man]

My friend recently visited the North Conway Scenic Railway. Fall is here and Steam Trains are alive and well. Matt wanted to share this picture with you.


http://www.modeltrainforum.com/gallery/files/3/5/2/conway.jpg

[Boston&Maine]

My friend recently visited the North Conway Scenic Railway. Fall is here and Steam Trains are alive and well. Matt wanted to share this picture with you.

Very nice steam indeed :cool:

I have not been up to the NCSR for soooo long, LOL...

[tworail]

Awesome photos guys! I should add some of the wildlife shots taken on my cycling trip earlier this year.

[T-Man]

Alternating Flasher at Work


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[T-Man]

Here are a few photo's.

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It was really neat when the sun came out the ice started to melt instantly. The wife said people may be without power until Christmas. Most people are prepared for power loss. They have wood stoves etc. Gee, the news is listing shelters throughout the state. Strange as it seems their are pockets of power around. It was strange driving to work and seeing dark neighborhoods then you come up to a house decked out in Christmas lights.

[T-Man]

http://www.modeltrainforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=888&stc=1&d=1260111172

[Southern]

Burr.

[Reckers]

Nice pics, T-man. We went thru an ice storm last winter that shut half the state down; there were hudereds of trees blocking roads all over town and entire cities without electricity. I spent half a day trying to arrange diesel deliveries from out of state to western KY, just to help the electric companies get fuel for their repair trucks. Small-town groceries were giving away food---their power was out and the food would eventually spoil, and people would otherwise have starved. Some areas were without power for months!

[ALCOS4EVER]

Just to clarify. I am a 42 year resident of New Hampshire. Our state bird is the Purple Finch, NOT the cardinal.

[T-Man]

No argument there. Nice to know the in-staters.:)

[big ed]

Just to clarify. I am a 42 year resident of New Hampshire. Our state bird is the Purple Finch, NOT the cardinal.

And a bird watcher too?:D

I was trout fishing here in Jersey.
Had the whole river to myself as it was autumn.
(yes believe it or not we probably have more trout then you guys up there.)

When all of the sudden I heard a loud screeching EEEAWW EEEAWW EEEAWW sound coming from behind me.
I turned around and it looked like a prehistoric bird flying towards me. Darn near knocked me in the river! I guess he thought I was a tree standing in the river and was going to land on me. ( I am 6'4") :)
It was bigger then a seagull!

I then noticed the bird looked just like Woodie woodpecker.

I went out and bought a Peterson bird identification book and found out it was a pileated woodpecker. That was around 1985. A species of this bird used to have an ivory bill and was listed as extincted in the guide. Then in around 2005 down somewhere in Cajun swamps they found an ivory billed one deep in the swamps. Cool

When I was a teenager I had a pet robin which I knocked out of a tree accidentally with a baseball. We fed it and raised it, when it grew up I used to leave the cage opened on the picnic table and it would fly around all day and come back at night to it's cage. No kidding.:D

Through out the years I have had an assortment of exotic birds.

My last Buddie, Big bird, a blue crowned conure died last march (sniff,sniff)
Had her for 26 years. Life expectancy of those are 20 to 25 years. She used to talk to me and sit on my shoulder and fly back in the cage to crap. Never crapped on me too.:D

That bird could carry on a conversation better then some people I know.
Not just say words but actually communicate with me.:D
She liked watching the trains go around too. I tried to get her to ride around in a hopper but she would have nothing to do with it. One bite of my finger and I never tried again.:laugh:

[Reckers]

We have a lot of those woodpeckers down here; they're a deer hunter's nemesis. They make sure every critter within miles knows they've spotted you coming!

[Boston&Maine]

http://www.modeltrainforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=888&stc=1&d=1260111172I already got a snow day because of the white stuff :)

[T-Man]

After beimg impressed with the New Jersey thread, Today, I found some wild turkeys. Not too far from the house.

http://www.modeltrainforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3435&stc=1&d=1277314466...http://www.modeltrainforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3436&stc=1&d=1277314466

[Reckers]

Very nice! In southern IN a few years back, I was in a rural area, driving. Had to stop the car to allow a parade of 5 of them to cross the road! I've come home, when living there, and found as many as 10 wandering around my back yard and seen far larger groups in a farmer's field near the Interstate. I don't know what they were feeding on, but it looked like 30 or more where there, hunting away.

[tjcruiser]

Hey ... how about this NH thread! I'll soon be T-Man-Country bound ...

I'm taking the wife and kids on our annual NH vacation to the White Mountains region ... we leave on Friday for a week. Hiking, cave crawling, kids' amusement parks, and ... TRAINS!

We're gonna stop by the Hartmann Model RR museum in North Conway, and also check out the fabulous OLD model train collection at Clark's Trading Post in Lincoln. As for BIG trains, we'll be riding the Climax at Clark's, take a country ride on the Conway Scenic RR, and also on the Lake Winnipesaukee Scenic RR. In the past, we've also done the Cog RR to the top of Mt. Washington.

Big, BIG smiles for the entire family. Can't wait!

TJ

[big ed]

I saw a couple big wild turkeys in TJ's neck of the woods last week.

Rhode Island that is.

Up on 295.

TJ....when the heck are they going to fix that bridge up on 95 a little north of Providence?

Flew through your state 3 times in the last 2 weeks going to Ma.
Man they must need the money, as there was a state trooper every mile writing tickets from the state line on 95 to the 295 split, on both sides of the superslab!

Didn't get legal eagle Ed.:D

Have a safe vacation.
I am off next week too. Going to work around the house.:rolleyes:


I got the last 2 weeks off in July to do something besides work.:D

I put on close to 4400 miles in the last 2 weeks running up north and back in the same day. So if it was up to me I would be content just staying home swimming in the pool relaxing.
But the old (young) lady has different plans.:rolleyes::thumbsdown:

[big ed]

After beimg impressed with the New Jersey thread, Today, I found some wild turkeys. Not too far from the house.

http://www.modeltrainforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3435&stc=1&d=1277314466...http://www.modeltrainforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3436&stc=1&d=1277314466


Them..there.. are some big turkeys T.:D (Reckers language.):rolleyes:

I think I would have been running after them and make them dinner.

When we were house hunting we pulled into a dirt road in rural NJ and went up it around 3 miles to look at a house.
We stopped to look at the house and were sitting there looking at it.
We decided to get out and go up to the door.
I opened my door (in the direction we weren't looking and stepped out only to get pecked by 2 that looked just like those! Big Ed went in defense mode! I kung foo kicked one but it came right back after me! We got back in the car and they jumped on it flailing there wings and making quite a ruckus.
The old (young) lady was so terrified of them that she said we will never live anywhere but in a town somewhere. (I can still remember the look on her face):laugh: She was raised in Bronx, NY, city girl.:rolleyes:
I turned the car around and looked in the mirror and they were chasing us down the road!:laugh:
I guess they didn't like the looks of us city folks there.:laugh:

[Reckers]

*BOL!!* They are territorial and aggressive. I nearly ran off a road one morning when one dashed out of the brush at my front tire.

[tjcruiser]

Big Ed,

We're bridge disfunctional here in RI ... roads, too. I joked about not having a 5-gallon pot in the other thread ... but we certainly do have 5-gallon POTHOLES here in RI!

No plans to fix the bridge north of Providence, as far as I know ... in the meantime, the state's going kaching-kaching with all of the fine revenue they're collecting.

I went with some friends to an open-area animal park in Australia years ago. The kind where kids can feed the animals. Saw some small kangaroos, a walabee, and then someone taps me on the back of my shoulder. I figured one of my friends. So I turn around ... and to my shock, I'm staring eye-to-eye into the face of the largest chicken I've ever seen! A full-on 6' tall chicken, at that! Well, at least I thought it was a chicken. Turns out it was an "emu" ... go figure.

(I needed to change my underwear later that day.)

TJ

[big ed]

Big Ed,

We're bridge disfunctional here in RI ... roads, too. I joked about not having a 5-gallon pot in the other thread ... but we certainly do have 5-gallon POTHOLES here in RI!

No plans to fix the bridge north of Providence, as far as I know ... in the meantime, the state's going kaching-kaching with all of the fine revenue they're collecting.

I went with some friends to an open-area animal park in Australia years ago. The kind where kids can feed the animals. Saw some small kangaroos, a walabee, and then someone taps me on the back of my shoulder. I figured one of my friends. So I turn around ... and to my shock, I'm staring eye-to-eye into the face of the largest chicken I've ever seen! A full-on 6' tall chicken, at that! Well, at least I thought it was a chicken. Turns out it was an "emu" ... go figure.

(I needed to change my underwear later that day.)

TJ

I had one of them things spit on me in a zoo once! Stunk too!:mad:

I spit right back at it and got it in the eye.:laugh:

[T-Man]

For weeks I have heard the little one screeching but was out of sight. Today it flew from the nest an mama was upset. For two years I have been trying to get just one picture. Today She flew from tree to tree and posed . All the time making a racket. At 16 mag I cut these from paint.



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[Boston&Maine]

That is cool T-Man :)

[Mit]

I saw a black bear on my way home from work last week. unfortunately no pic, was triing to not make him a hood ornament. First time i ever saw one in the middle of the afternoon though since i wasa teenager

[tjcruiser]

In NH with the wife and kids. Took a ride on the North Conway Scenic RR this evening ... wonderful ... diesel electric loco. Saw old steamer next to old roundhouse / turntable.

StoryLand with the kids tomorrow, then Hartmann Model RR Museum on Sunday ... can't wait!

TJ

[T-Man]

Welcome out of Staters!
I love that motto.

http://www.modeltrainforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=5515&stc=1&d=1290425996

Before EZ pass.
http://www.modeltrainforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=5516&stc=1&d=1290425996

TJ
I found this note from a toll attendant from your vacation here last summer.

http://www.modeltrainforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=5517&stc=1&d=1290425996

[tjcruiser]

That toll attendant looks awfully back-woods to me. Wouldn't want to get on his bad side!

TJ

[Smokestack Lightning]

In NH with the wife and kids. Took a ride on the North Conway Scenic RR this evening ... wonderful ... diesel electric loco. Saw old steamer next to old roundhouse / turntable.

StoryLand with the kids tomorrow, then Hartmann Model RR Museum on Sunday ... can't wait!

TJ

I'll have to imagine the beautiful scenery as if we were living in days gone by. Before pics:laugh:

[Smokestack Lightning]

Welcome out of Staters!
I love that motto.

http://www.modeltrainforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=5515&stc=1&d=1290425996

Before EZ pass.
http://www.modeltrainforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=5516&stc=1&d=1290425996

TJ
I found this note from a toll attendant from your vacation here last summer.

http://www.modeltrainforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=5517&stc=1&d=1290425996

Reminds me of Vancouver.

[tjcruiser]

I'll have to imagine the beautiful scenery as if we were living in days gone by. Before pics:laugh:

Seek, and ye shall find ...

Couple of pics in this thread, with also a link to lots more pics:

http://www.modeltrainforum.com/showthread.php?t=4038&highlight=hampshire

Cheers,

TJ

[Smokestack Lightning]

Seek, and ye shall find ...

Couple of pics in this thread, with also a link to lots more pics:

http://www.modeltrainforum.com/showthread.php?t=4038&highlight=hampshire

Cheers,

TJ

That is beyond cool man:thumbsup: My son would lose his mind.

[big ed]

5538


Even spelled TJ wrong.:laugh:

[tjcruiser]

Ya' know ... I didn't want to say anything to T-Man there about that ... but now that you've brought it up ... IT'S ONLY TWO LETTERS LONG! Jeez!!!

TQ ... uhh ... no ... TZ .... dammit .... TW ... TJay ... that's it!

[T-Man]

LOL
That is why I posted it.

To set things straight, I forgot about paint, I should of corrected it.

http://www.modeltrainforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=5541&stc=1&d=1290513724

[Reckers]

Or Teej, for short.....

[tjcruiser]

And just why is the UniBomber holding up a sign with my name ???? :rolleyes:;)

[T-Man]

I had a visitor the other day. I think this is a red tail hawk. It is big. This was taken from a window at a full 16x out back.



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[tjcruiser]

Looks like a red tail to me, too. Beautiful bird. We have 'em here down in RI. I take the kids over to the local bird sancuary quite often, and we see them flying around on the hunt. Every once in a while we'll see a catch ... a chipmunk, a small bird, even a small rabbit.

Living dinosaurs, from what I've read!

TJ