#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 
For a moment I thought these crows were pulling apart the electric wires! A pair of Cape Crows have become regular visitors to our garden recently.
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Anne – they were very angry crows, cawing their heads off and flying around the trees and light poles, at least ten of them. The noise was deafening!
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I can imagine for the two in my garden are quite loud enough.
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They sure are Anne. Plus they were not only cawing but flying around madly. It was a little disconcerting to see them.
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You’ve got a lot to crow about.
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I had quite a few “crow” or “murder” expressions to use on this Wordless Wednesday post … but I never thought of “crow about” … clever Anne. I always thought a murder of crows was a large group, but it is as few as three crows.
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I thought it would take more to make a murder, too.
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We were thinking of the movie “The Birds” no doubt.
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I remember seeing an ad for “The Birds”, but I didn’t see the movie.
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I’ve never seen it either, but I have watched large portions of it on YouTube, like the famous scene when the schoolchildren are running and birds are flying everywhere. I guess it was quite a feat to make the crows lifelike and so animated back when that movie was filmed.
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I didn’t know that a group of crows was called a murder. We have seen a lot of crows in our neighbor hood this year.
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Same here Ruth – these crows were very loud and agitated, about ten of them. I had heard of a “murder of crows” and was surprised as few as three is a murder. Off to pile on extra clothes at just 32 degrees. Did you hear Gaylord had a foot of snow yesterday?
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I hadn’t heard that news. Better them than us!
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Yes – for sure and another few inches today. The meteorologist in Gaylord was on WWJ and said they were a week late for their first big snowfall and it generally happens around the 26th of October. Too early for all that snow business!
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We are still hoping to get garlic planted. We are supposed to go back up into the 50’s – if only it would stay dry for awhile.
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I’m hearing dry now until Wednesday – fingers crossed that is long enough for you because after that it’s going to get very cold and some snowshowers and rain next weekend. I heard that on two different stations.
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Monday is our target date for planting. Enjoy this weather while we have it Linda. 🙂
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I think it will happen Ruth – it is supposed to be a beautiful day Monday (Sunday second best). All of a sudden the leaves are swirling everywhere.
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Look at you here, crowing about murder! I’m always creeped out by crows, but they do make for a good photo.
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They were circling around – very creepy. I took many photos, but they were blurry and the utility poles were in the way. They were agitated and very loud!
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I love Counting Crows, the band. 🙂 I’ve read that crows have long lasting memories and will alert one another when a person or animal who has given them trouble in the past comes around again. I think they hold grudges…
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I have heard Counting Crows’ music before – a former coworker loved them and brought a CD to work and would play it at her desk. I know I’ve read and heard that crows are very intelligent. That is amazing crows remember the troublemakers – there was something definitely triggering them to caw and fly about madly like they were. I took a lot of photos of them flying, but they were too blurry to use.
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If there was a “Murder” of Crows then I would look for a dead Crow somewhere or a cat? They react to ground predators and seeing one of their own hurt or dead.
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I craned my neck to see what agitated them as they kept it up. I heard the noise a block over from where I live on my way home from the Park, so I walked in that direction. They were incessantly cawing and flying around. Something was up, but I saw nothing in the trees, or on the ground as far as I could see and I eventually had to abandon looking as I had to get home to work.
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Well,there was something creeping around they spotted!
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Yes, I couldn’t see it, but they sure could. Very loud and non-stop cawing.
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Oh Linda, well, thank you for … this 🙂
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I love that it’s called a murder of crows!
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Me too Pam – it seems fitting, especially if you’ve ever seen the movie “The Birds”.
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Yes!
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I didn’t know that’s what they were called, but I always hated them! My mom loves that show and watches the reruns all the time.
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They are not as big and scary as ravens who are much bigger. I watched it all the time when it was on the first time and in fact I wrote a post once a while ago about wishing I could be like Jessica Fletcher peddling around such a picturesque town instead of downstairs on my exercise bike.
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I’m sure Cabot Cove was a lovely place!
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I have always wanted to go to the East Coast, to Cape Cod and be a leaf peeper in the Fall in the New England states. I always thought that the fictional town of Cabot Cove was in Cape Cod, but it actually was filmed in California.
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Me too – I’ve often thought of doing a bus tour there. That is disappointing that it was filmed in CA. When I went to the east coast of Canada, we started down the coast of Maine intending to go to Boston but it seemed too long and not very scenic, so we cut across and came back to Canada through Vermont, but it was July so no leave color.
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Yes, Vermont is supposed to be a prime place for the foliage too. All the pictures I see of Cape Cod are so scenic, from the houses to the pictures near the water – so maybe some day. Those bus tours I subscribe to have some beautiful different tours. But I really like those railroad tours through the foliage at peak time – at least if it rained or was crummy weather, you could see everything without getting soaked … but with climate change you can’t predict peak time anymore. We were at least a week late for peak color – that was last week. Now the leaves are flying furiously. Will likely have to rake this weekend and next weekend. Not my tree. Sigh.
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I spent the afternoon pruning 16 rose bushes, so it’s all neat and tidy and ready for winter, but there are sure a lot of leaves still on the trees. At least it was sunny out and not too cold. I’m sure my back will pay for it tomorrow. I hate raking….
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Yes, I resent it as it was one of those Maple seedlings and it is now a huge tree. It’s on the neighbor’s lawn but most of the branches are on my property.
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You are very lucky to have crows in your area, Linda. 👍 Due to West Nile virus, which crows are very susceptible to, there are very few around here.
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Yes, there were about ten that day but we’ve had a lot in the neighborhood the last four or five years. I know another Corvid, the Blue Jays, are susceptible as well. My mom and I once took a short vacation and returned home to find many Blue Jay bodies in the backyard. We called the DNR, which they had requested on the news, so that any dead birds could be tested for West Nile. They retrieved all the bodies – all had died from West Nile Virus. I don’t know why they all died in the yard. I had a feeder at that time plus gave them peanuts, so they were regular visitors.
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Wow, very interesting about the Blue Jays. I only very rarely see any in our area and, of course, the crows are very infrequently seen also. Years ago, when i worked in Dwight, Illinois with the multiply handicapped, there would be innumerable crows in the trees around the parking lot. Peoples’ cars, at the end of the day, would be literally covered in crow-crap! I even suspect that a lot of the crows were aiming for the cars on purpose! Bombs away! 😱
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We have regained our Blue Jay population but it took a while. West Nile Virus was bad that year. We had three types of mosquito-borne illness this Summer. Luckily the park where I walk daily is not dense and the path is elevated, so it’s not close to the Creek – no mosquitoes, but one walker says she’s gone home with ticks a couple of times. I check for ticks, but have never found any. A fellow blogger said crows may hold a grudge but I’m wondering if they saw their reflection in the car paint?
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Miss Linda………………………those crows “catch my breathe just looking at them”………………….near all that high voltage wires!
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It was incredible Ann Marie – they were making such a noise that I could hear them while I was walking home. I walked over a few blocks in the direction of the noise and there were about ten of them flying and circling the trees and the electrical poles and sitting on the poles – all cawing loudly. I don’t know what was up but they were very animated, that’s for sure.
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Clever post.
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Thank you Barbara.
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Just about every evening just before dusk, we often see a murderous bunch of crows head east towards wherever they spend the night. I’m not a big fan of crows, but it’s a pretty impressive sight.
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I was amazed how much commotion these crows made Janis. The group I saw were clearly agitated about something and were cawing incessantly in between flying between the utility poles and the trees. I walked over a few blocks just to see what the commotion was about.
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Speaking of groupings, what word is used for squirrels? 🙂
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I had to look it up Dave and when I found it, I know I’ve heard the terms “scurry” and “dray” before. I know baby squirrels are called “kits” or “kittens”. I like reading what groups of various birds and animals are called as they are usually funny. I was at the Wildlife Refuge recently and counted 28 Double-Crested Cormorants flying around and perching on several tall trees. It was an impressive sight. When I return from each long walk, I make notes on the highlights so I don’t forget anything as I don’t always look at the photos right away nor write a post. So for kicks I Googled the names for a group of Cormorants – they were funny: a “flight”, “gulp”, “rookery”, “sunning”, and “swim” of Cormorants.
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A gulp of Cormorants. Who comes up with this stuff? Could be the subject of its own post, Linda.
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That’s a very good idea Dave! Things are slow sometimes in the dead of Winter with snow and ice and I don’t get out as much. All the names they have for groups of animals and birds are off the wall. Also odd that they are not satisfied with one name for one group – they have multiple names!
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Great title and I have seen the show The Birds many times. Maybe it was you they were yelling at? 🤣
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Ha ha – I never thought of that! The Blue Jays screech as I walk through the Park. They alert their fellow Jays I am putting out peanuts. Maybe the crows were mad I didn’t bring crow treats. (Note to self: must Google Crow treats.) 🙂
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Something about crows and their loud crowing…creepy.
The movie “Birds” gave me nightmares after I saw it; I regretted ever seeing it. But I saw it again and had the same feelings again. Never see birds the same way again. Yikes!
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Yes, crows are very large and very loud. I was walking home and heard all the noise so I knew it was close by so went looking for them. They were agitated about something – that’s for sure. They were circling around, perching in trees and the utility poles. “The Birds” was creepy when there were so many of them. Though way back then, they did a pretty convincing job making us believe they were rea.
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Maybe the crows are mad at humans for having the symbolism that they’re bad luck? lol. If they had a smaller crow that could make them less creepy.
Not seeing that movie again. Twice was enough. If my kids saw it, they’d be angry with me for a long time.
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I don’t blame you – they were spooky. Crows are really one of the most intelligent birds. A fellow blogger sent me an article long ago about how jays and crows (both from the corvid family) are smart. Crows will put a hard nut onto a roadway as they know a car will crush it, then go retrieve it. The jays follow me around the Park as they know when I arrive I make sure to go to three places besides feeding them along the way – they will follow from tree to tree waiting for me to make a “drop” – sometimes I can coax them down, just by holding a peanut between my fingers.
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Very high intelligence indeed! They know how to get what they want. Animals are more intelligent than they get credit. Octopus also use tools to use as a shield for protection. The other day I briefly glanced an article where two bees unscrewed a drink lid together. lol
You’re brave to feed the animals that close. We’re not used to it so we admire from afar and get way too easily startled.
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I think I have seen that story about the bees and the lid. Do you and the kids every follow The Dodo Esther? I used to follow on Facebook and they have a lot of cute and interesting animal stories which are all in videos. Interesting relations with animals and humans or unlikely animal “friends” – like two orphaned babies, a camel and a calf and how they would pal around with one another and they were out playing together, romping around. I finally unsubscribed as I am behind enough thank you … but “The Dodo” is on FB, Twitter, YouTube Channel and this website:
https://www.thedodo.com/
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I’ve heard of Dodo before and have read some articles from it. I should look more often. We’re huge fans of animal news!
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It’s a cute site and I had to unsubscribe from it because there were so many new stories, I got behind in everything else (story of my life). 🙂 I have a Facebook friend who is a pal from high school. She posts a lot of news stories and Dodo stories so I read those instead of all of them.
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Great title and pohoti set – ha
And for composition – the last photo has such cool
Balance with the two lines from the wires – then the lines from the wooden post and the bird in middle –
I really like that shot
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Thank you – I’m glad you liked it Yvette. Those crows were buzzing around wildly and cawing incessantly, so I’m surprised I got any pictures at all. I was walking home, heard the commotion, so went to investigate.
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☀️😉
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