Puffy, Resident Redtail, Looking for Lunch; Chaos Ensues

Gulls: Herring, or Thayer’s or Iceland?

Have a Geometric Holiday!

OH OH OH

After Sunset: The Sun’s Reflection on High Clouds

Minutes Before Sunset in Pompey

Delphi Falls In Southwestern Town of Cazenovia

Christmas Tree of Succulents at Longwood

Bald Eagle Returned to Murphy’s Island

Turquoise Lego, Lost at the Beach

Liverpool Cat

Solar Street Barber

Lombardi’s, North Side’s Finest Italian Market

West Tower of St. Anthony of Padua, South Side

Griffin Above South Salina St.

Grotesque Above Salina Street

South Side

Resting Cardinal

Visiting Doe

Boulder of the Year, Near Churchill MB

First Year Fawn Scavenging Birdfood

Victorian Ornamentation

Five Connected Homes

Corner of Plum and Solar Sts.

Clouds

Crucible Across Onondaga Lake

Sterling Nature Center Farmhouse

Sundog: Sterling Nature Center

Sterling Nature Center Looking South-west Toward Fair Haven

Sterling Nature Center Beach Destruction

Sterling Nature Center: Rocks Remain After the Sand Is Gone

Mexico Point SP: Casey’s Cottage

Mexico Point SP: Small Beach is Gone

Sandy Island Beach SP: History of a Fragile System

Sandy Island Pond SP Back Beach Erosion and Blow-out

Sandy Island Beach State Park: Rock Barrier Protecting a House on the Top of the Dune, Looking North

Three years ago one could safely and easily walk along the beach around this and many other points.

Sandy Island Beach SP: Beach Damage

Sandy Island Beach State Park: Rocks Where There Was Sand

Beach Access Ramp at Sandy Island Beach State Park

Black Pond WMA Exposed Dune Layers

Black Pond WMA Beach Looking South

See that some of the banks have been undermined.

Black Pond WMA Birches in the Swale

Black Pond WMA on Lake Ontario: Swale Behind the Foredune

In mid-November I longed to see once more before winter set in, four beach areas along the eastern Lake Ontario shoreline.

My goal one afternoon was to visit beaches ranging from Black Pond WMA in south-western Jefferson County, the farthest from home, to Sterling Nature Center in northern Cayuga County.

The other two were Sandy Pond Beach State Park and Mexico Point State Park, both in Oswego County.

Lake Ontario had been at disastrously high levels all spring and summer, causing major damage and closures of many camps, roads and parks all along the shoreline.

Great Blue Heron atop Muskrat House, Montezuma NWR

NYS Thruway Traverses Montezuma NWR