Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.
Linda Schaub
FIFTY FAVORITE PARK PHOTOS
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- Parker noshin’ nuts
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- Fox Squirrel
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- Black Squirrel
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- Parker, my Park cutie!
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- Pekin Duck
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- Mallard Hybrid Duck
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- Midnight munchin’ nuts
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- Mute Swan
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- Goslings
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- Mama Robin
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- Seagulls on ice floe
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- Great Blue Heron
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- Parker chowin’ down
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- Mallard Duck
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- Northern Cardinal
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- Great Blue Heron (“Harry”) fishing for shad
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- Parker: shameless begging
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- Viceroy Butterfly
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- Great Blue Heron
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- American Goldfinch
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- Seagull
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- Robin baby (not fledged yet)
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- Mallard Ducks
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- Robins almost ready to fledge
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- Parker angling for peanuts
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- Robin fledgling
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- Parker making a point that he wants peanuts
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- Parker smells peanuts
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- Parker with a peanut
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- Red-Winged Blackbird
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- Seagull
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- Red-Bellied Woodpecker
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- Pekin Duck
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- Starling
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- Canada Geese family
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- Canada Goose and goslings
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- Red-Winged Blackbird
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- Parker says candy is dandy.
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- Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly
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- American Goldfinch
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- Hunny Bunny
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- Parker looking for peanuts
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- The pier just past sunrise
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- Mute Swan
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- Parker in the snow
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- Parker and a treat
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- Great Blue Heron
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- Me and my shadow (a/k/a Parker)
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- Fox Squirrel
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- Seagull
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- Canada Goose
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- Mallard Ducks
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- Mute Swan
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- Fox Squirrel – Parker
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- Northern Cardinal
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BADGES
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- 02-02-2018
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- 03-13-2018
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- 03-25-2018
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- 03-26-2018
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- Year #6!! 02/2019
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- 04-13-2019
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- 11-21-19
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Linda Schaub
WALKIN', WRITIN', WIT & WHIMSY 
He is huge, is the quarantine weight he put on. 🙂
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And then some Sandra – I’ve seen some fat groundhogs at the Park in my days, but this guy by far is the fattest. I think he gets a prize for his poundage.
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Grounded??
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He sure is grounded Anne – I looked at the burrow he was standing next to and was wishing if he tried to escape from me and I’d get a photo of him half in and half out. Yhe burrow looked too small for him to fit in. But he never moved. That made me think he was rabid or sick or something. A guy came by pushing a little girl in a stroller – so I pointed at the groundhog and said “don’t get too close – this groundhog has not moved and I’ve been standing here five or ten minutes.” He laughed and said “thanks, but no worries – everyone feeds this groundhog and he is just looking for a handout.” I said “no wonder, he is so fat.” This was right along the boardwalk, so lots of people traffic. A little mirth at the girth of the groundhog. 🙂 Finally lightening up so I can go … we have dark skies from the wildfires too.
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Wow! What a butterball! 🙂
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He’s cute!
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I think so too AJ. He needs lots of burpees to get in that burrow!
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Lol if he’s anything like me- he’ll just move to avoid the burpees
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Ha ha – he needs a few minutes to get going first.
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What a cutie! I don’t think I’ve ever seen one of these in person.
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He sure was roly poly and I thought he was sick as he stood there so long without moving (well, just moving his head). This was right along a busy boardwalk along the Detroit River on a Saturday morning Then someone told me he lived there and people gave him treats all the time and he was waiting there patiently while looking for a handout. 🙂
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Ahhh, a local pet. No wonder he’s so well fed.
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I didn’t know that at first – that’s why I worried he was rabid or sick … I was told he was the “resident groundhog”. 🙂
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Omg – is he getting “nutter butters” from someone else?
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I think that everyone who passes him on the boardwalk must be slipping him treats! This was a busy boardwalk along the Detroit River on a Saturday morning. The one guy pushing a stroller told me that he just stays there and people feed him. He told me that because I when I saw this guy approaching with the stroller and the groundhog had not moved, I warned him maybe it was sick as it was sick and to be careful. That’s when he gave me the scoop on his M.O. 🙂
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yes – or he found a way to “get” stuff (maybe garbage ?
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I walk there all the time, but usually earlier – so noon must be prime time for people hanging out on the boardwalk, maybe tendering granola bars, muffins, or other goodies. What an enterprising critter he is. 🙂
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Yes – such a great photo you grabbed of him too!!
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He was really close up – a first for me as they usually run as fast as they can!
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😊 close up? Maybe Another indication he might be getting fed and knows people will
Feed him?
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Here I was concerned he was sick or rabid as he just stood there, his four feet planted on the ground and not moving … all the time he was waiting for handouts. It is really funny – the groundhogs at Council Point Park will feast on berries on the mulberry bush – they climb up and park themselves on a branch and eat. But if they see a human, they plop unto the ground and go to their burrow.
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😉
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Awesome looking. Not found in my country!
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He was looking for treats and that is why he was so cooperative – I had no idea and worried he was sick or rabid and that’s why he was sitting there and posing so nicely. Apparently everyone feeds him treats as they stroll the boardwalk. 🙂
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It came out to see If Trump was still around? It looks scared so I think there is another 2 months of Trump!
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Ha ha – yes, it looked frozen in place and that’s why I thought it was sick, or worse – maybe rabid. I mean it planted its four feet and really only moved its head a little. Who knew it was there to collect treats from passersby on the boardwalk? Critters are smart.
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that explains why it allowed you to get so close………..It’s a mooching Hog!
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Yes!! I was afraid it was sick and that is why I warned the guy pushing the young child in the baby stroller … I thought the kid might reach out and try to pet it … it was not far from the boardwalk and usually they run as soon as they see a human. Thought maybe it was sick/rabid … here I am warning the guy and he says “no, he is here all the time and everyone feeds him.” I stroll that boardwalk many times on a Saturday/Sunday and never have seen him, but admittedly I am usually there earlier – I had spent about three hours at Lake Erie Metropark first and so didn’t get there til noon, evidently prime-time for treats. 🙂
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every time he saw you coming he would run into the bush and wait for you to go by.
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He should only know how many treats I usually dole out while walking. I had just a few peanuts that morning and already handed them out to the squirrels where I parked the car as they run over to see people – the squirrels are friendly at Elizabeth Park … I had gone to Lake Erie Metropark earlier and feeding any wildlife, even the squirrels, is forbidden, so I was not packing the usual amount of peanuts. Somehow, looking at its girth tells me it is not eating peanuts, but something a whole lot more fattening. 🙂
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you need to name him…..Fat Albert!
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I think I will do that … I took a lot of photos on that stroll at Elizabeth Park. Not necessarily nature stuff, but oddball things, like a woman landed a big fish right in front of me so I took her picture, then she released it; a German Shepherd who was walking with its owners had a big frisbee in its mouth (like bring your own frisbee). Just a huge dog, and if you saw him on the street, a little menacing looking, but with the frisbe in his mouth, not so much. Also saw legs hanging from a hammock someone had strung between two trees (a first for that) and then someone was nailing a bird house to a tree (not usually done either) and then Fat Albert the groundhog. So maybe I’ll put a pic of him in there with his new name. I’ll tell how I warned the guy pushing the stroller that something might be wrong with that groundhog as it never moved at all … then he told me he was waiting for treats. It was an unusual walk to say the least.
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thats the reason why you write so well,you get into the details of the ordinary to make it extraordinary!
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Thank you for saying that Wayne … I do enjoy talking to people as well as just taking their picture. I ask sometimes and sometimes I just take it on the sly. I asked the guy with the dog with the blue sunglasses. He was happy to pose. I was talking to a teenage boy yesterday. I stopped to take pictures of a sign that was in the front window of a home. The sign said something to the effect that everyone was welcome there at their home … no distinctions made. I was taking the picture and he came outside. We chatted for 15 minutes and then an English Bulldog pushed open the front screen door and came out on the porch. I said “wow – I hope she doesn’t do that when no one is around to grab her.” He smiled and said, “no she won’t go off the porch, we have trained her to stay because she is deaf.” He said that and then made some signals to the dog and she came down the front porch steps and over to him wagging her tail. I said “did you just use sign language to your dog?” “Yes I did” was the answer. I had no idea you could teach a dog sign language … and this was not making a hand motion to wave the dog over … this was sign language. I had the camera in my hand but it didn’t feel right to ruin the moment for a shot. But I was really impressed and told him that. (Your Roving Reporter hard at work.)
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Isn’t that interesting! I do the same thing with my eagles.
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Really? That is very interesting! I was in awe of this dog … English Bulldogs are big dogs and this dog was full grown and took up most of the porch and she just opened up the screen door (no doggy door … pushed it open and walked out). I’m going to have to read up more on that later when I get a chance.
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I need to tell the Daredevil that I am not stopping (If I am going straight through to Fortune channel for bears. Because of Tsappee Narrows I have to pass through his territory. I needed to be able to tell him I’m just going through.
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That is fascinating Wayne, so he will just stay put in the nest or a branch above then and forego the visit.
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yes,but sometimes when I stop and call him he doesn’t come…..having said that he might not even of been there to begin with? They do fly off for some reason. Like we leave our house and go downtown to shop. They fly off to try fishing elsewhere?
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When the female stays with the eaglets, I guess the males go out to get food to bring back, so you are probably right.
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He is doing a good job of packing on the pounds before winter! We used to have groundhogs living in the woodlot behind our house. My oldest son would whistle out the upstairs bathroom window when he saw one and it would always stand up on its hind legs. I don’t know if they all do that or just the one he “trained”.
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He sure is Laurie. I’m thinking he’s so heavy he would waddle. I’ve never seen one that heavy. Well that is funny about your son’s interaction with that groundhog – I’ll be your son did train it to do that. I see them at the Park all the time and only on four legs and running quickly toward their burrow and disappearing into it in a flash.
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Miss Linda………………………………..Up close ……………..cool……………..I love ground hogs………….how did you ever get that picture??
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Ann Marie- Have you ever seen a groundhog that does not bolt as soon as it sees a human?
Not me! I was walking along the boardwalk at Elizabeth Park near the marina area and he was right there, just a few feet from me. I worried he was sick as he did not move at all. I spoke to a young man pushing a child in a stroller and said “watch out for the groundhog – I’ve been here a while and it hasn’t moved.” He laughed and said “he’s the resident groundhog who hangs out hoping to get treats! “I usually get to Elizabeth Park much earlier but this time I had spent about three hours walking and taking pictures at Lake Erie Metropark so arrived at Elizabeth Park later than usual. Noon must be prime time for this groundhog to receive treats,
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You need to put a leash on him and take him walking! Lol
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Oh he needs a walk badly … twice daily at least Diane … I am just the one for that job. 🙂
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My goodness; he’s so big he looks like a wombat!
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I’ve never seen such a huge groundhog. I see them at Council Point Park all the time – they are a little pudgy, but nothing like this guy. Then I found out that he positions himself there as people come by and give him treats. I’ve walked that boardwalk along the Detroit River at Elizabeth Park many times and never seen him. I bet he can no longer fit in his burrow you see in pic #3. : )
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I’m not sure what it is Linda, but could she be pregnant???
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Gee, I never thought of that Joni and here I am describing the poundage as the “Quarantine 15” – the guy pushing the stroller told me everyone feeds this groundhog, though I’ve never seen it on my jaunts along the River, but I am usually there earlier in the day, especially in Summer.
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Most likely it is the Quarantine-15. Maybe they get pregnant in the spring?
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I just looked when I saw this comment Joni – they breed in February and have their litters 30-31 days later, in late March, so our Groundhog here is just plain fat!
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Oh my!! He’s a chubby one. At first I thought it was a squirrel but no tail. 😅
I didn’t know groundhogs left their burrows during the day. Maybe he smelled peanuts??!! Looks like he was posing for the pic. Ellis once wrote a fan letter to Punxsutawney Phil.
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I do see them in Council Point Park from time to time – never on an every day basis and they run fast if they see a human. I thought this one was ill or rabid and then discovered it was waiting on treats! This was just a few feet away from the boardwalk and what patience it had!!
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Cute critter! He probably heard from the happy squirrels that you are generous with the peanut treats.
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I must have a banner emblazoned on my forehead only seen by critters … it either says “Kind Woman Bearing Treats” or “Sucker” – I am not sure!!
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hahaha, funny. Maybe both? But I don’t know…I don’t speak squirrel. j/k
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I love your groundhog and I would be haunting his hangout in order to give him some treats. Not that he needs any. We had one who either lived or just stayed out of the heat under our boardwalk. I never saw him taking the treats I put out for the raccoons, possums and skunks. A fox or two might come by, saw a coyote once and watched crows trying to take away rib bones.
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This groundhog was enjoying the treats, that’s for sure. When I took all my photos and no one else came along and I didn’t offer treats, he gave up and disappeared back into his hole again. There is a groundhog at the Park but if he sees you, he runs for the nearest bushes to hide. Somewhere I read/heard about a groundhog who routinely ransacked someone’s garden, so he they made him his own plot of garden veggies and he knew to go there and nowhere else. It might have been a video from The Dodo. The video showed him feasting on veggies.
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