Nice little Humming Bird. They fly by and sound like huge bumble bee's!
Saw this poor guy on the Cape 5/21/2009 around 3PM.
At first I thought the swim bladder was a downed weather balloon. As I got closer I could see it was a dead whale. I assume it's a Pilot Whale as there are many of these off the Cape. As I got closer there were a few park rangers keeping people away. The one guy you hear me talking to in the video was ok. There was another ranger, some tall lanky geeky kid who was all consumed with himself and his "authority" getting on my case to move away. Funny how you give a guy a gun and all of a sudden he becomes Dictator Bob! What a jerkoff. Like the dead whale was going to somehow jump up and attack me! Takes all kinds I guess.
UPDATE
Ok so after a little more research I have discovered that this whale is an endangered FINBACK whale. Finbacks are the 2nd largest whale and can reach up to 80 feet. What I thought was the whales swim bladder was in fact the whales swollen tongue.
ATTENTION
If you are planning on setting up an email account you need to be aware that I haven't set up any yet. So what that means is it may take a little back and forth until I get all the kinks worked out. With this website thing I'm basically just winging it.
Here is a 4 minute video of the ice storm from December 11, 2008. Mainly I made this to show the awesome power of nature. It's not dramatic like a tornado or a hurricaine, but it does show another side of nature's fury. Water is a very powerful force (as anyone who has been to Niagra Falls can attest) My area of Charlton near Dresser Hill did not get a lot of damage. This river is the stream that is just down the street on Saundersdale Rd. However, there was quite a bit of damage and power outages starting just a scant 4 miles away. Up until at least the 14th the Masonic Home was on generators. (The storm hit on the 11th) And Oxbow Rd was all but impassable with downed and smapped trees.