#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 
That’s a great photo catch. It’s as if both of you were watching each other like a hawk. 🙂
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Thanks J.P. – I was lucky to get 5-6 feet away from it and said a few harsh words to it while standing there. P.S. – I wish I’d thought of that line, but will borrow it for another hawk encounter I had at the River earlier this Summer. 🙂
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What a handsome bird! It’s too bad he has chosen your neighborhood as his favorite food source, though… Great pictures, Linda.
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Thanks Barbara! I was pretty excited to get that close to it, despite the fact I despise it for setting its sights on my squirrel pals. When I was almost beneath it, it reluctantly flew away. It was one of two juvenile hawks in the Park, so you have to wonder how big the adult-size hawks are.
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Ah, this one is from the park. You had one near your house once, hunting the squirrels, too, right? It’s interesting how young birds don’t seem to keep their distance from humans as much as the older, wiser ones.
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Yes, it is from Council Point Park Barbara and you have a good memory because yes, there was a hawk in a tree across the street waiting for the squirrels to go to my porch … suddenly, at the start of the pandemic I no longer had any squirrels coming to see me. I asked my neighbor if he’d seen Grady and the others and he said “there’s a hawk in the tree across the street who likely got them.” I was so upset.
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Awesome shots Linda, wow I have never seen one that close. 🙂
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Thanks Sandra – I felt pretty lucky I got that close to it. I was almost right on top of it when it finally flew away. I’ve seen them flying around the Park before, but not actually perched somewhere to see their size.
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That looks like the same kind of hawk we had in the old oak tree.
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I think I remember you wrote about that hawk and the squirrels in your yard a while back Anne. This is a big bird and it’s only a juvenile on top of it. No wonder it could grab one of my squirrels in its talon and take off with it.
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I saw our hawk only once close up. Neighbors were talking of seeing hawks hang around, but my eyesight isn’t up to that.
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I’ve never seen a hawk this close up before and it didn’t move and this was taken with the digital compact camera and I just zoomed in. I hope you don’t see any black bears. Are your eyes doing any better 2 1/2 weeks after the first shot or is it too early to tell? I think you said it might take several sessions for improvement.
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My eye is about the same. I can’t see any improvement yet, and I doubt the doctor would guess how it will turn out.
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It is just three weeks’ time since the first shot and when your doctor examines you, with his trained eye and modern equipment, he will likely see improvement that you may not detect, so that is how to think of it for now.
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Great advice, Linda. Wait and SEE!
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What beautiful pictures of a red-tailed hawk! It almost looks like she was posing for you.
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Thanks Laurie. I thought it looked like it was posing as well. It shifted around as it was very windy that morning and I’m sure it wouldn’t like that I used that last picture of its feathers ruffled out of place!
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Wow so awesome to see these. When they aren’t eating my chickens! Great photos Linda.
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Thanks Kim – I appreciate it. Despite the fact that I resent these hawks going after the squirrels, just like you don’t like them going after your chickens, I do concede they are beautiful birds.
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Yes, we have to take the bad with the good, don’t we.
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Yes unfortunately – I do admit it is beautiful though.
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Fantastic hawk pictures Linda.Love them.
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Thanks Andy! Despite the reason that hawk and its partner in crime were there, I was still excited to get up close to it.
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Hawks are so cool.
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I must admit I don’t like these hawks for making the squirrels their prey Sarah, but it was pretty exciting to be so close to it – it seemed pretty nonchalant with me standing there so close.
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They are magnificent AND deadly.
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Yes they are – they are swift and mighty with those talons.
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I’ll send over one of my eagle friends to take care of this guy!
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Thank you Wayne! You saw the look he gave me when I blasted him for going after my furry friends. He was nonchalant about my “conversation” with him.
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typical Hawk attitude.
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That was awesome and so close up! I’ve never even seen one in a distance before. Was it at your regular park?
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Thank you Joni. I got up really close to it and had the compact digital camera and zoomed in on it. Another walker pointed it out to me – I didn’t see it myself. I’m always scanning the skies and trees for this pair of hawks to ensure I don’t put peanuts down when they are around. I kept getting closer until I was almost to the fence and looking up at it. It posed for a long time, unafraid, despite me ranting and raving about it going after “my”squirrels. Yes, it was Council Point Park and I try not to put peanuts down out in the open area or even the path now, but the squirrels take the peanut and run and bury it clear across the open field where they are targets.
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WOW – great captures. Our hawks only sit that long when they’re watching their prey…!
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Thanks Shelley – I was excited about being that close to it and getting the photos. I had the small camera and kept inching up closer to it. It may have stayed perching there because of the high winds that suddenly began, because I don’t think he liked the rant I gave him for going after the squirrels. He/she is one of a pair of juvenile hawks working as a pair to terrorize/capture the squirrels at Council Point Park.
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Wow – that close with a smaller camera. Impressive. Hawks can be so menacing!
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Shelley – I felt pretty lucky to get that close up and not have it move until I was almost on top of it. Yes, I hate those hawks and don’t care for this new hawk game of a pair of juveniles working together to grab up my furry friends.
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Yes, you were lucky. It is hard to watch birds in nature unfold. 😦
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Beautiful photos, Linda! I’ve never been able to get this close to one. They are usually very skittish birds.
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Thank you Rebecca – I was very lucky and I had my digital compact camera which I carry on my belt all the time with me and just zoomed in. I stepped off the perimeter path and kept walking closer thinking it would fly away, but it just looked at me or stared straight ahead. I gave it the business about picking on the squirrels. It might have stayed there in place as the wind picked up too. I was happy to get the shots despite my dislike of it lurking around to grab a squirrel.
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Great close-up photos of this hawk, Linda! We get them in the garden and they sometimes catch one of the birds. I’ve never seen them catch a squirrel here.
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Thank you Sabine and good to see you here again. I remember I learned about your site from Tom Peace after posting about a hawk encounter at the Park. You had done a post that day and had a very up-close picture and Tom sent me there to confirm the type of hawk.
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Great shot and what an elegant bird.
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Thank you Diane. Though I don’t like this bird, I was able to approach it without him flying off for quite a while. That surprised me. I called him a few names for messing with the squirrels. Then he finally flew off. I was pretty excited to get these shots though.
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This bird looks like a grumpy character. Great captures of his mood!
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Thank you Esther. I gave him my opinion on what I think of him preying on my squirrels – he was unimpressed with my commentary though and likely wished either 1) he was bigger and I would be the prey; or 2) I was smaller and he’d grab me and shut me up.
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