#Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.
Linda Schaub
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Linda Schaub
- “Spring is sprung. The grass is riz. I wonder where the birdies is?” ~ Anonymous
- Bewildered and bedraggled Snowdrops. Angry Robin bemoaning frozen worms. #Wordless Wednesday #Weary from Winter #3 years of Wordless Wednesdays for me!
- Ahh – Spring arrives today!
- Why a Duck? Why not a Seagull? #Wordless Wednesday #Marx (Bros.) Madness!
- Humbug Marsh was hummin’, not humdrum on this trek.
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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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WALKIN', WRITIN', WIT & WHIMSY 
Linda, you are going above and beyond for your furry friends. Popsicles to beat the heat works for squirrels too!
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It took a while to grow on them Laurie. At first I think they were scared, then I started plunking a peanut on top and that seemed to make an impression. 🙂
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BTW … where are you these days Laurie? Are you still in Alaska? I’m guessing you went there right from you stay in Colorado for Atti’s birthday? I thought of you today as I registered for my last 5K of the year: “Walk for the Wild” to benefit wildlife and wildlife refuges. I’m afraid to ask … is the London Marathon and your trip to England and Ireland still a go?
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Cute, cute. For the butterflies I put ice cubes in a terra cotta saucer then place it near the rose bushes. I need to up my game however. Your popsicles rock.
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It took a little bit of time for them to get used to it Ally – I think they were scared until I plunked a peanut on top. Peanuts make everything better don’t ya know. 🙂 When I had my butterfly garden (before the Polar Vortex wiped out most of my perennials in 2014), I read up on butterfly gardens in the magazine “Birds and Blooms” and they recommended using a “puddling dish” to give water to the butterflies. They said to get a terra cotta saucer and fill it with playsand and wet the sand, leaving a small puddle of water on top, which eventually just sinks into the sand to keep it moist. The butterflies alight on the wet sand and drink from it. They also said to have a “sunning rock” nearby. That’s a low, flat rock and the butterflies sit on the rock which is warmed by the sun. I did get a lot of butterflies, but had butterfly bushes which are magnets for all kinds of butterflies. I got a couple of butterfly houses too but I can’t say I ever saw a butterfly go in there for cover. These houses look like bird houses, but have slits instead of holes and you put twigs inside of the houses to encourage the butterflies to seek shelter on windy days. They alight on the twigs inside and rest. I loved that magazine, but quit subscribing after my garden was wiped out and the neighbor’s dog that was outside 24/7/365 brought rats and I had to stop feeding and watering the birds.
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I didn’t know about the sand in the dish, but I do put a flat rock in it so the butterflies have somewhere to rest before and after drinking the water. What I read told me to add the ice cubes so I do that once a day when it’s really hot out. Like in August.
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I enjoyed my butterfly garden Ally and was bummed out when everything died. I often discuss whether to start replenishing the perennials and butterfly bushes with Joni (Homeplace Web). I like her gardens, especially her roses. Most of my roses were damaged from that same prolonged cold weather and don’t look as good anymore. Joni says with the erratic weather, you either have to water every day or it rains too much and you’ll worry everything will be ruined. I have to give it some thought after retirement.
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Aww, thank you!
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Glad to give you a smile Jeanine. 🙂
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You’ll always get me with squirrels! 🙂
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You really can’t top their cuteness factor (though the fawn was right up there too). 🙂
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Those pics sure put a smile on my face! 🙂 Thanks, Linda! 🙂
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Glad to give you a smile Tom. Two-Tone and her family were a little apprehensive in the beginning, but it finally dawned on them that the ice might be nice to cool off … I helped matters along by putting the peanut on top. 🙂
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I loved your photos. Do the squirrels use the ice at all?
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Glad you liked the photos Anne. I saw a video on an animal site I follow on Twitter and the squirrel in someone’s yard was licking it like a Popsicle. So I thought I’d try it too. Two-Tone and her family took awhile to get on the ice kick, so I had to entice them to use it with the peanut on top. I’ve seen quite a few pink tongues taking a swipe or two, then I leave for my walk and it’s melted when I return. The best time to do it is in the morning as it would only last a few minutes in the heat of the day. My new trick is I put the ice in an old saucer and let it melt that way.
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What fun! If I fed squirrels, I’d try that.
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I wish I could do it at the Park Anne. I can’t imagine they drink from the Creek as the water gets algae in the Summer, but the ducks and geese seem okay with drinking and eating fish there.
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Miss Linda………………………….you are the most cleverest person…………………………..you should be writing articles for the New York Times…………………………..clever about the popsicles!
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Thanks Ann Marie – they didn’t catch on right away, but I wanted to offer water without worrying about stagnant water drawing mosquitoes and the dish getting icky. I saw a video where a guy did this for his backyard squirrel and it loved it!
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Your squirrels never know what you’re going to do next! These pictures are beyond cute. I love the look in his/her eye in the first and third photos, kind of like, “look what I’ve got!” Lucky little creature. 🙂
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Glad you liked the pictures Barbara … that little Two-Tone is a cutie and yes, I went back and looked and it is a cute look, especially because she is usually waiting for me when I open the door and she beats any other squirrels or cardinals and jays. It took a while for her to come around and try the popsicle. 🙂
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I was wondering if that was Two-Tone. 🙂 She’s a little sweetheart. 💙
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Yes, it was Two-Tone and now there are a couple of pure-black squirrels visiting and I’m thinking they have to be her offspring. She is cute, so sleek and shiny and full of life.
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Love the “squirrel days of summer” phrase
And side note – grabbed a squirrel photo to share with us – climbing a palm tree baby!
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Brave little squirrel climbing that tall palm tree. I never thought about a squirrel shimmying up a palm tree before. 🙂 Glad you liked that clever twist on the phrase.
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That little Squirrel was Zipping up that tree so fast!
Hahah
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Adore your images, so feel good
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Thanks Barbara – glad to give you a smile with my furry friend.
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Cute idea Linda! But boy they must melt quickly in this heat. Did they ever lick it or was it too cold for them? I don’t know what/how/where squirrels drink, but they must.
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Glad you liked it Joni. I’ve been using this “popsicle” during this extreme heat and it already starts to melt from the hot temps shortly after I put it there, then it starts dripping. I open the front storm door ahead of putting the peanuts and ice block there so Two-Tone and pals know it is coming … they scope out the porch from their tree. It took a while though to get used to it, (probably because it was almost the same size as them). I use a tall Styrofoam cup to freeze it.
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Clever once again! You are such a wonderful squirrel mommy!
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Thank you Diane – I am feeling badly tonight because one black squirrel, not Two-Tone, but I think one of her offspring, came bolting across the street this morning for peanuts. I was leaving soon to take my car in for service. I told that squirrel “stay put as I have to pull out of the garage.” Not that he/she understood me – evidently not as I went out five minutes later and it was in the street dead. I felt so badly, so now some remorse about whether to keep feeding them – their tree is across the street, so they see me open the door to put out peanuts and bolt over. I don’t know the people across the street, so not going to go over there to feed them.
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