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Alb ITH Montezuma wildlife refuge SYR ALB April 2021

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Alb ITH Montezuma wildlife refuge SYR ALB April 2021

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Took Shaggkira to deliver a load of lumber to my Volvo garage upstate...
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Leaving home.....passed my dairy...and old style mile marker from ??
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Snow in the Hilltowns, but Shagg had good grip on surface.

Hey, a red block guy!
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27 people lost their life here in a single car crash, God Bless
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70 miles down I88 to my exit...through Coventry ( they have never won the FA CUp , by the way) and historic Greene NY
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Okay, it’s work time, lots of labor to pick lumber and load....oh wait.....plop, done

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Much too icy and windy for roof work, so a bit of indoor work, then headed North on 89 up Cayuga Lake and the Birds!


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Historic Seneca Falls, NY
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Montezuma WLR...some nice spottings! Canadian visitors.....
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And more.....
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Top the lake and I90 home, about 160 miles on this leg..

Why do people think they don’t need following distance on Motorways?

Rare spotting of the BMU 1 -series sedan



Welp.....following distance check? 75 mph?
Welp.....following distance check? 75 mph?
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....and home in time for dinner


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Post by 850 LPT »

Nice! How do you get the close ups of the birds? I like the herons especially.
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That is the crazy overdone camera in the IPhone 11 Pro with 10x telephoto and iso 3200

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Thanks for the photo tour. And the birds.
And the cows. I grew up on a dairy farm.
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Post by BlackBart »

On your next loop, you could carry some free Alfa engines home.....

https://www.alfabb.com/threads/two-164- ... rs.706688/
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