Conneaut Lake

What's your favorite style of barbecue sauce brand notwithstanding?

I'm not really concerned with brand, although I love the barbecue sauce they make at Russell's Barbecue in Linesville, PA, up by Conneaut Lake.

But my preferred kind is mustard-based barbecue sauce.

How about you?

Okay.

All right, so you were born and raised in Conneaut Lake.

Am I saying, is it Conneaut? Am I saying it correctly? Yeah, Conneaut

Lake.

[laughs]

But, um, yeah, my dad and I, uh, when I went to Bl- when I went to ride, uh, Blue Streak at Conneaut Lake, it was him and I that went, too, and, like, he was [laughs] he, he loved, he loved that ride as, as much as I did.

That was also another one of those coasters that he had, had wanted to get to.

Nice.

Oh.

Oh, yes.

Uh, Conneaut Lake Park is bringing back an indoor scrambler.

Um, but the weirder news is apparently Conneaut Lake is known as Phantom Park in Halloween, during Halloween.

Thank you for, um, having us on here.

Uh, so I grew up in northwestern Pennsylvania, Crawford County, right between Conneaut Lake and Pymatuning Lake.

And, um, you know, being outdoors was a big part of my, my life.

Um, had family, uncles that, um, were farmers and biologists across the country, really kind of made me excited to get into this field.

He was a, a great colleague, but a great friend, and we played, uh, a lot of golf together.

And, uh, I had him on my boat at Conneaut Lake, and I regret to this day I didn't have a camera then because cell phones weren't really prevalent.

And, uh, he's standing on the front of my pontoon boat and he's silhouetted into the harvest moon and directing the Count Basie Orchestra.

Oh my gosh.

I miss him.

He was a, a great colleague, but a great friend, and we played, uh, a lot of golf together.

And, uh, I had him on my boat at Conneaut Lake, and I regret to this day I didn't have a camera then because cellphones weren't really prevalent.

And, uh, he's standing on the front of my pontoon boat and he's silhouetted into the harvest moon and directing the Count Basie Orchestra.

Female, head brown, neck paler, breast, back, and sides gray.

speculum and underparts white eyes yellow length twenty inches range in pennsylvania a migrant which sometimes occurs in winter when there is open water but is not often common it is to be found from march first to april fifteenth and from october ten to november thirtieth golden eyes will sometimes be seen resting on a floating piece of ice the musical whistling sound of their beating wings has been responsible for their common name whistler the large head and ludicrously short bill are fairly good field marks for this species even at a considerable distance the strongly contrasting black and white plumage of the male is not easily to be confused with that of any other species the barrow's golden eye blagienetta islandica is much rarer in pennsylvania than the golden eye the male has a purplish head and a somewhat crescent-shaped patch in front of and below the eye his scapulars are marked with white areas along the shafts records of this species are very desirable bufflehead charitonetta albiola linnaeus other names butterball dipper duck description about half as large as a mallard both sexes with short bills and high rounded crests more or less as in the golden eye male head black glossed handsomely with greenish purplish bluish and fiery orange a large white band across back of head from eye to eye lower neck wing coverts speculum outer scapulars and underparts white back and wings black lower back and tail grayish eyes dark brown female head and upper breast dull brown patch on either side of head speculum and breast and belly white length fifteen inches range in pennsylvania common sometimes abundant as a migrant from march fifteenth to april fifteenth and from october first to november tenth it is often seen along the smaller swifter streams and at small lakes mated pairs are usually noted in spring the male like the wood duck is a creature of great beauty the bufflehead is a good diver and can disappear at the wink of an eye with the agility of a grebe it eats much animal matter including small fish which it captures while diving these ducks are often exceedingly fat and this tendency as well as the plump roundness of their body has given them the common name butterball end of section four section five of an introduction to the birds of pennsylvania this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox dot org an introduction to the birds of pennsylvania by george meek sutton old squaw to least bittern old squaw clangula aemalis linnaeus other names old wife sow southerly long-tailed duck description male with very long narrow middle tail feathers longer than in the pintail female without long tail feathers male in winter sides of head washed with grayish brown sides of back of head and upper neck black more or less margined with buffy rest of head neck upper back scapulars and lower belly white back and wings breast and upper belly black bill black with yellowish orange band across end eyes pale brown female upper parts dark brown scapulars and back more or less margined with grayish sides of head and neck white or whitish breast gray belly white the male in summer has the sides and front of head white the rest of the plumage is chiefly black save the belly which is white length male twenty-one inches female sixteen inches range in pennsylvania a migrant from february twentieth to april tenth and from november first to december twentieth sometimes occurring in winter and irregularly very abundant tremendous flocks have been noted at conneaut lake and at lake erie the old squaw is a handsome and noisy species and demands attention wherever it is found it usually feeds in deep water and therefore is found but rarely in smaller ponds or along streams the underwing coverts are dark and there is no speculum in the wing its rapid flight carries it along a few feet above the water at from thirty-five to sixty miles an hour perhaps faster and it alights with a swish it is an expert diver

diverThe Scoters.

Three species of scoter occur in Pennsylvania.

Underparts whitish, irregularly barred and mottled with dusky.

Length, 19 inches.

Range in Pennsylvania, rare migrant and winter visitant from November until early April, commonest perhaps at Lake Erie and Conneaut Lake.

This is probably the rarest of the scoters in Pennsylvania.

A migrant from February 20th to April 10th and from November 1st to December 20th, sometimes occurring in winter and irregularly very abundant.

Tremendous flocks have been noted at Conneaut Lake and at Lake Erie.

The old squaw is a handsome and noisy species and demands attention wherever it is found.

It usually feeds in deep water and therefore is found but rarely in smaller ponds or along streams.

Range in Pennsylvania.

Rare migrant and winter visitant from November until early April.

Commonest perhaps at Lake Erie and Conneaut Lake.

This is probably the rarest of the scoters in Pennsylvania.

Range in Pennsylvania, a migrant from February twentieth to April tenth, and from November first to December twentieth, sometimes occurring in winter and irregularly very abundant.

Tremendous flocks have been noted at Conneaut Lake and at Lake Erie.

The old squaw is a handsome and noisy species, and demands attention wherever it is found.

It usually feeds in deep water, and therefore is found but rarely in smaller ponds or along streams.

Underparts whitish, irregularly barred and mottled with a dusky.

Length, nineteen inches.

Range in Pennsylvania, rare migrant and winter visitant from November until early April, commonest perhaps at Lake Erie and Conneaut Lake.

This is probably the rarest of the scoters in Pennsylvania.