#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 
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LOVE these bunny pics! 💙 Great pictures, Linda!!!
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Thanks Barbara – I am sure this Cottontail Bunny was posing for me – she never budged for a good 10-12 minutes. 🙂
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Such clear closeups Linda! I wonder where she’s going?
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Glad you liked them Joni – I loved the shell pink ears that you could see the veins in them from the sunlight. It was funny because she preened her fur and paws for about 10-12 minutes, then suddenly looked to one side, then bounded away (just like she was meeting up with someone) and that gave me the idea to say she was getting ready for Saturday night date night.
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It was a cute idea!
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Thanks Joni – that made my day!
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Ms. Bunny allowed you to take some adorable photos!
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Yes, she posed very nicely Laurie and when through with her preening and cleaning routine, she looked away, then bounded off. It gave me the idea to say she was primping for Saturday night date night. 🙂
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your bunny seems to be late for a very important date!
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Yes Wayne – she was quietly preening and licking her paws and fur about 10-12 minutes, then took a notion to just look in the distance and bounce away. Love that little powderpuff tail which gives her the name “Cottontail” rabbit.
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I thought for a minute that it might be a Hare?
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Nope, a Cottontail Rabbit which is what we have around SE Michigan. The other day Sandra did a post on a Snowshoe Hare which are only found in the northern part of Michigan. They are unique in that they have Summer fur (brown and look similar to the Cottontail) and in Winter they turn white to blend in with the snow. Too bad my furry friends don’t change to white fur so they are not bullseye targets for the hawks.
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A big difference between Hares and rabbits…….Hares are carnivores!
I wouldn’t discount a Hawks vision. They’d see anything that would move!
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Ewwww. Hares are not my type of cuddly rabbit. I had a pet white rabbit named “Scratch” when I was a kid. Our Cottontail bunnies like this one are very sweet, bolting if you get too close while they nibble clover or dandelions … or your backyard flowers and veggies from the garden. I tried several times to grow Bleeding Heart plants and each time the bunny(ies) ate them, taking them to mere stubs in the ground.
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Ya, Arctic Hares eat mice as there isn’t much grass.
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Hmm – When I think of rabbits, I think of cuddly bunnies – not mice-eating hares. I wouldn’t think there would be many mice to eat either in the Arctic, even in Spring/Summer.
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the Tundra mice are different https://www.denali.org/denalis-natural-history/tundra-mice/#:~:text=Lemmings%20are%20small%20rodents%2C%20closely,the%20Arctic%20and%20Sub%2Darctic.
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This was interesting Wayne – thank you for sending it. Now, I have heard of lemmings in the past as to groups, etc. but what was interesting in this story was how the people thought they came from the air from the melting snow. I guess they would not look like mice since they have no tails … looks like they are pretty big at 5-6 inches. Kind of fat too. I never thought of a Snowy Owl – they mention how the Snowy Owl would be eating these creatures. I never thought about how they would be catching their food before, given the tundra existence.
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The Arctic is a totally different world unto itself!
In general the closer you get towards either pole,the larger the animals become.
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I should read more about the North and South Pole. I had heard the word lemming and about the lemming leap long ago, but had no idea what they looked like or where they lived and who they were prey for. I appreciated the link you sent me. I followed a woman blogger in Alaska for a while. I don’t get posts anymore – perhaps she doesn’t blog, but I felt kind of ignorant as I really knew nothing of their year-round weather and learned quite a few things.
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generally we know more about our surroundings than far away places Linda. Nothing wrong with reading up about places far away and even better If you visit them latter! Reading is one thing, experiencing is another!
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That is for sure Wayne. I had some more places left that I wanted to see in the world, but the state of the world has me thinking that will not happen. If it isn’t weather woes and climate change, there are other dangers plus you wonder “will this pandemic ever truly end?”. It is not like when I traveled in the late 70s/early 80s.
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Personal hygiene, bunny style.
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I never knew until a few years ago just how fastidious bunnies are about their fur and paws – I mentioned it to someone who had had a rabbit family pet and told me about it. She decided when she looked perfect and then bounded off, flashing that cottontail for which she is named.
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She’s a cutie! I love seeing rabbits.
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Glad you liked her Rebecca. I love seeing them too. I’ve not seen many Cottontails at the park where I walk every day and I think it is because they are not mowing weekly anymore so the clover was/is not as easy to find as when the grass is short. I’ve seen more rabbits nibbling in the neighborhood this year than ever before.
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Recently we saw two rabbits munching together at the edge of a soybean field and occasionally when we drive into our driveway at night we will see one running for cover. But all in all, we really haven’t seen too many this year.
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I wonder if the rabbits this year are having trouble foraging for food due to the extreme heat and/or torrential rain and flooding? Some rain is good for gardens, but an overabundance is not so if they’re feasting in homeowner’s yards they may be out of luck. We have hawks at our Park and I hope what bunnies we do have are not becoming prey to these hawks. I am just sick about my squirrels and those hawks. One of my porch squirrels, (one of Two-Tone’s youngsters we were commenting on) was killed by a car last week, just moments after she was happily munching peanuts on the porch. I felt sick and sad and stopped feeding them after that as their tree/nest is across the street and the same one almost died two days before. I opened the door, put out peanuts on the porch and he/she raced across the street. The other sibling lagged behind all the time. It narrowly missed being hit last Saturday, then died two days later.
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I’m sorry to hear about the little squirrel. I know it’s hard to lose one so suddenly and unexpectedly. It certainly has been a hot summer. I can’t blame the bunnies for finding a shady spot and hunkering down during the daytime.
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Thank you Rebecca – I felt so badly and still do every time I walk outside, plus dealing with the hawks going after the squirrels at the Park everyday – it is tough. I am thankful for our cooler temps this week … a brief respite from the heat and humidity and I hope we can now just go right into a cooler mode. Yes, the bunnies with all that fur … I don’t see them “splooting” like the squirrels do. 🙂
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Awwww, that’s too much 🙂 Thank you Linda!
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Even bunnies have their moments to shine. 🙂 Glad you liked it Jeanine.
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All I saw this week was pigeons (well and my cat). You’ve got a good thing going there for you!
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Thanks Jeanine – I do admit there are lots of places around here to get your dose of nature and especially nice for seeing critters since I don’t have any of my own.
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That was fun to imagine the prepping for date night – hahaha
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All she needed was a spritz of perfume and she’d be all set. 🙂
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Hahahaha
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Miss Linda………………………………………….nice close up pictures…………………………………….you are a very good photographer……………………..little did that innocent rabbit know he’s the topic of silent conversation!
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Glad you liked the photos Ann Marie and thank you. I don’t get many opportunities to take photos of rabbits. That rabbit had a lot of patience and never moved until it was done preening and primping, then scurried off. Too bad it does not know how many other looked at it besides me!
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I haven’t seen a rabbit like that in the wild. It looks like a hare to me but your comments say Cottontail Rabbit, but as you know I’m not too familiar with names and/or specific differences with animals. Animals know to show their best looks for you. 🐰🐇
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It was a fairly big rabbit Esther. Here in SE Michigan we have Cottontails … they hop away and all you see is that white powder puff tail. A fellow blogger did a post on a snowshoe hare the other day – that hare was big. They are brown in the Summer months, then the fur turns white in the Winter to give them some camouflage in the snow. In this post, you really can tell the difference in size and the big back legs.
https://intothelightadventures.com/the-snow-shoe-hare/
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