Friday, April 1, 2011 - Boulder Beach Campground, Boulder City NV
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I'm off - that nest needs a few more sticks, Great Blue Herons, Burro Creek AZ, March 28, 2011
Fuffy
What's with the fuffy beards? Most of heron pictures I'm getting show these long beard feathers, often puffed out in the presence of a mate. Is this a nesting display of some sort?
Night camp
Site 94 - Boulder Beach Campground, Lake Mead Recreation Area, Boulder City NV
- Good Verizon cell phone and Broadband service are available here.
- Locate Boulder Beach Campground on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
Sweet, Rich Hickory Milk
Hickory was another favorite. Rambling through the Southeast in the 1770s, the naturalist William Bartram observed Creek families storing a hundred bushels of hickory nuts at a time. "They pound them to pieces, and then cast them into boiling water, which, after passing through fine strainers, preserves the most oily part of the liquid" to make a thick milk, "as sweet as fresh cream, an ingredient in most of their cookery, especially hominy and corncakes." Years ago a friend and I were served hickory milk in rural Georgia by an eccentric backwoods artist named St. EOM who claimed Creek descent. Despite the unsanitary presentation, the milk was ambrosial - fragrantly nutty, delightfully heavy on the tongue, unlike anything I had encountered before.