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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Started conversation Oct 18, 2020
Given the title, I expected this to be by Willem, but it's fine the way it is.
Thanks, Dmitri.
I'm just guessing here, but is that the Clarion river?
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minorvogonpoet Posted Oct 18, 2020
What are the birds? Some of them look like geese,but what kind of geese I wouldn't know. 
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Oct 18, 2020
Geese and ducks, I think. 
I'm afraid I couldn't get any closer, as we hadn't got a boat.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Oct 18, 2020
I imagined the Allegheny to be larger. Is the photo upstream, or has Pennsylvania had the same drought Massachusetts has had?
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Oct 18, 2020
It is upstream, but the river's not *that* small. 
It's broader at its mouth, though, in Pittsburgh. This photo was taken near Parker, PA.
And yes, we've had drought, and all the rivers are down. I can imagine how bad the Chemung looks about now. You can see from some of the grasses on the side that the river's way down. The Clarion's down, too - we've noticed that all the places where steps go down to the river, they stop before you get there.
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