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Kathy Bacon took this photo of a bird on her deck who appears to be ready to do some grilling!
Kathy Bacon shows off the puddled exterior of her Mid West home.
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Ranger John and the lovely Daniel from the Dark Forest Podcast return to Pickle Hallow in this back-to-nature episode of the Smellcast. Join them as they learn “the ancient mystery somewhere deep in the woods”.
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A contemplative Toppie takes a walk to his frog pond. Maybe sees a U.F.O. Maybe.
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Today on the Smellcast: Little Vignettes… scenes from the past two weeks. Please to enjoy. “It’s still twitching…” HARRR! Poor lil’ spider…
Here’s my new-found swampy-frog pond place near my hidey-hole apartment.
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Join Toppie and his parents as they take a drive up the East side of Lake Cayuga to visit friends. While there, Toppie works on a 1950’s MG, communes with nature and enjoys a bountiful harvest inside an old country kitchen.
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Toppie presents part two of his visit with Ranger John and the lovely Daniel from the Dark Forest Podcast. Today, Toppie, John and Daniel drive to Ulysses, NY, to see the wondrous Taughannock Falls!
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Ranger John and the lovely Daniel from the Dark Forest Podcast, have arrived in Pickle Hallow to visit Toppie and do some bird-watching! Join the intrepid trio as they explore and listen to the on-location bird and environment sounds of near-by Sapsucker Woods, a 230 acre bird and wildlife sanctuary of spectacular aural beauty.
This is the Blue Heron Nest Toppie, John & Daniel saw in person at Sapsucker Woods. The inset shows Cornell’s web cam view of the nest.
You can see up close via a web cam the same Blue Heron Nest that Toppie, John and Daniel saw in person by clicking Cornell’s Bird Cam!As of June 8, 2012, there were still chicks in the nest!
The Visitor Center and Cornell’s Lab of Ornithology at Sapsucker Woods.
Baltimore Oriole, just one of the birds we saw at Sapsucker Woods.
A tip of Toppie’s top hat to Ranger John for teaching Toppie how to use his Zoom Microphone. As a matter of fact, this episode of the Smellcast marks the first time Toppie really (really) used his Zoom microphone to record on location (and not audio extracted from his video camera). It’s possible that in OTHER episodes of the Smellcast, when Toppie said he was using a Zoom mic… well it’s possible he just sort of made it up. Heh.
John snapped this photo of a deer that was so close to us we could almost reach out and pet her!
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Toppie ventures outside into the night to capture the sound of Spring Peepers.
Noun 1. Spring Peeper – a small brown tree toad having a shrill call heard near wetlands of eastern United States and Canada in early spring. The Hyla crucifer tree toad – arboreal amphibians usually having adhesive disks at the tip of each toe; of southeast Asia and Australia and America. Genus Hyla – the type genus of the Hylidae; tree toads.
Toppie did not know that peepers are toads, not frogs (he finds this hard to believe, but what does he know?), but he grew up hearing the creatures sing their once-a-year song until he left Podunk Junction for the big city of Rochester, NY.
As heard in the Smellcast, episode 157, Toppie actually has a Zoom recorder — but truth to tell — he hasn’t yet learned how to use it. So instead, one fine Spring night just days ago, Toppie grabbed his trusty old video camera to capture a wonderful night sound-scape, switching back and forth from the camera’s condenser mic to a shot-gun mic.
Listen for the trill of an unknown creature — likely some kind of frog (most likely not a Peeper — or maybe like the Peeper — another toad species). A goose flies by and then fade to silence.
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