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Birding at the Edwin B Forsythe Natl Wildlife Reserve

August 26, 2012
· Martin Kelley
This morn­ing the fam­i­ly joined a bird­ing group at the wildlife cen­ter near Absec­on, NJ. Birds spot­ted include the clap­per rail, semi-palmated sand­piper, many black skim­mers, snowy and great egrets, great blue herons, glossy ibis, For­rester’s terns, a semi-palmated plover, and a pair of black crowned night herons​.It was great going with a bird­ing group. Some of these birds weren’t even vis­i­ble (much less iden­ti­fi­able) to untrained eyes.

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Took a lunch-time trip to the US Mint with the 8yo today

November 28, 2011
· Martin Kelley

It’s free, open Mon­days, and is self-guided and thus needs no reser­va­tions. No cam­eras allowed though so lit­tle in the way of social media to come of it. What was most sur­pris­ing is how emp­ty the shop floor was – much of it is auto­mat­ed, with robots to move the heavy coils and con­vey­or belts to shut­tle the coins in-progress. Every once in awhile you’d see some­one walk­ing across the floor, open­ing a machine up and adjust­ing some­thing but it seemed like almost a lone­ly job. #g+

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