Wood Storks Stop Over (1 Viewer)

Goatnose

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• Aug 27, 2007

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Hundreds of Wood Stork near Almyra Airport today. They came from too high too see (literally out of the ozone) and too numerous to count. Between 4:30 to 5 this afternoon. An amazing spectacle to watch dropping in on a shallow reservoir already holding Great and Showy Egrets and Great Blue Heron and a very few Yellow Legs. Just Spectacular.Almyra is 10 miles east of Stuttgart Ar.

 

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Goatnose

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• Sep 2, 2007

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Still Passing through

Again this weekend this time from the White River National Wildlife Refuge. Arkansas

 

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deborah4

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• Sep 4, 2007

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Tad shame that second pic is a wee out of focus Goatnose cos the atmosphere, composition and lighting is magnificent!! What kind of tree is that in the background, the diameter is enormous :eek!:

 

Goatnose

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• Sep 6, 2007

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deborah4 said:

Tad shame that second pic is a wee out of focus Goatnose cos the atmosphere, composition and lighting is magnificent!! What kind of tree is that in the background, the diameter is enormous :eek!:

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Thanks for your reply Deborah.
That is a :

BALD CYPRESS TREE
Taxodium distichum
I have heard Biologist say that we have those trees around here that are 8 or 9 hundred years old. Not sure if this tree is that old or actually how to guess the age of a Bald Cypress.