Tag Archives: Langhorne

Gimme Three Steps

Posted on April 26, 2020 by Mike Slickster

It’s now week seven of this crazy state of isolation and social-distancing, and the bald-eagle population is thriving in my neck of the woods. All the nesting pairs I keep tabs on have spawned young this time around. I plan … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged aggressive mitigation, bald eagle, birds of prey, cautious, CDC, cloth masks, commonwealth, convenience stores, COVID-19, Dear Abby, duet, eaglets, economy, essential businesses, Fish, fresh produce, gatherings, Gimme Three Steps, Governor Wolf, hatched, health guidelines, isolation, John Prine, kilograms, Lake Luxembourg, Langhorne, lockdown, Louie, Lucy, lynyrd skynyrd, Mars, nesting pairs, PA, PA Department of Health, Pennsylvania, population, poundage, raptors, Rie Waits, Rushland, smile, snacks, social-distancing, spaceship, stay at home orders, stones, supermarkets, three steps, ticket, tirade, video, virus, weight, weight-loss program, Woodbourne Rd. | 2 Comments

Bad Luck Is Not Better Than No Luck At All!

Posted on April 20, 2019 by Mike Slickster

Don’t know why, but Lake Luxembourg is seemingly a bad-luck spot. It started last summer, when the Cooper threw a CV joint on the way up there from Andalusia. The car fortunately limped back home at least, but had to … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged abstaining, adjustment, adult male, Andalusia, auto focus, bad luck, Bald Eagles, bang, benchmark, big lens, birding, blur, blurry images, boom, bridge, camera, camera shop, computer, cooper, Core Creek Park, crash, cussing, CV joint, death, deer, diatribe, died, download, e-mail address, eaglets, egrets, father, fisherman, fishing pole, flowered shirt, goodbye, Google Earth, Grateful Dead, gust, Happy, Happy Easter, hassle, herons, kingishers, Lake Luxembourg, Langhorne, laptop, lens shoe, Lent, life, litany, Louie, luck, lucked out, lyric, mankind, March, mate, mike slickster, mourning doves, Neshaminy Creek, nest, nesting pair, Nikon, obscenities, osprey, ospreys, PA, passenger door, Passover, pavement, peaceful, Phillies' cap, photographing, photography, red-winged blackbirds, religious holidays, repair, scratches, September, shebang, shit happens, social media, software, song, sorry, summer, thanks, tirade, tripod, turtles, Uncle John's Band, USB dok, wind, Woodbourne Road, youngsters | 1 Comment

Sing Hallelujah

Posted on November 24, 2018 by Mike Slickster

Got hit with my first barrage of Christmas music on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving at Bristol Borough waterfront, just like last year at this time. I was there to check on a pair of bald eagles that nest across the … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged avatar, Bald Eagles, ballerina slippers, bells and whistles, beta testing, birds of prey, Bristol Borough, Burlington Island, Christmas music, coders, complain, cover tunes, Delanco, Delaware River, facebook, followers, hallelujah, icons, instagram, internet, Jingle Bells Reggae, Lake Luxembourg, Langhorne, medium, nesting pair, NJ, PA, Pennypack Park on the Delaware, philadelphia, picayune, pinterest, raptors, social media, sycamore tree, text editor, Thanksgiving, twitter, waterfront, Web, Wordpress, WYSIWYG | Leave a comment

Birdhouse in Your Soul

Posted on April 7, 2018 by Mike Slickster

Ten nesting pairs of ospreys have returned for the 2018 season to a stretch of the Delaware River that starts in Riverton, NJ, and ends 18.6 miles (29.9 kilometers) northeasterly at the tip of Burlington Island, NJ. The raptors, otherwise … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Andalusia, Andalusian ospreys, avian ethology, Beverly, biological study, biology, bird-watcher, Birdhouse in Your Soul, birding, birds of prey, birthday, Bristol, Bristol Basin Park, broods, Burlington Island, Burlington-Bristol Bridge, channel marker, clan, Coast Guard, cormorants, Croydon, Delaware Canal, Delaware River, Dow Chemical, Eagles, eagles nest, Eddington, Edgewater Park, ethology, fish hawks, Florida, gestation, granddaddy, Herringbone, incubating, kayak, Lake Luxembourg, Langhorne, Logan's Point, Maple Beach, mate, Neshaminy State Park, Neshaminy State Park Marina, nesting, nesting pair, New Jersey, NJ, nor'easters, osprey distribution map, ospreys, PA, patrolman, Pen Ryn, Pennsylvania, Pennypack Creek, philadelphia, Philadelphia Water Company, photography, police car, Radcliffe, range marker, raptors, river hawks, Riverton, Sarobia, sea hawks, seagulls, Sevylor, South America, They Might Be Giants, Winter Storm Toby | Leave a comment

This Is For the Birds

Posted on December 3, 2016 by Mike Slickster

It’s beginning to feel a whole lot like winter. With today’s wind chill, it felt that way for sure. Got the long handles out to wear again for another four months to come. The secret is to dress in layers … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Andalusia, Bald Eagles, bird-watching, birds, birds of prey, Burlington Island, Canadian Geese, cardinals, cold, Core Creek Park, Delaware River, dreaded season, February, Great White North, hawks, January, juncos, Lake Luxembourg, Langhorne, mating pair, mating season, mergansers, mockingbirds, nest, ospreys, Pennypack Park at the Delaware, photography, pigeons, raptors, robins, sparrows, wild turkeys, Winter, woodpeckers | Leave a comment

	Mike Slickster on Settled In For The Long H…
	Mary Anne Wolfrey on Settled In For The Long H…
	Mike Slickster on Settled In For The Long H…
	Mary Anne Wolfrey on Settled In For The Long H…
	Mike Slickster on ¿Qué pasa?

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
			1	2	3	4
5	6	7	8	9	10	11
12	13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30	31

Tag Archives: Langhorne

Birdhouse in Your Soul

This Is For the Birds

Recent Comments

Archives

Categories

Meta

Follow Blog via Email

To purchase Mike Slickster's novels, please click on the links below:

Follow me on Twitter

A Part of My World

Tags

Blog Stats