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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They are very sweet these little bathing beauties. 🙂
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Ducks are great
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Yes, old or young – they look perpetually happy. The ducklings are very sweet.
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Ahhhh day made!!!
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Sweeter than pie aren’t they LaShelle? I love ducklings and this was a much older family than Monday’s family. The ducklings were almost as big as their Mama.
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That’s so cute! Stormy’s babies have almost all of their feathers in 🥹 they’ve grown up fast! I just took a video of them yesterday swimming in the creek together as one big happy family
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I love ducklings LaShelle and last year I went to this park and Elizabeth Park several times for duckling photos and each park had plenty of them. Then later last Summer I found the Mama Duck whose ducklings fell down the sewer drain, so more ducklings to photograph. It was a ducky Summer!
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Hahaha a ducky summer 🤪 SO fun! Have you ever had backyard ducks? they’re really fun to raise 🥰🤗
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No I have not had any backyard ducks but there was a fellow blogger several years ago that raised Muscovy ducks and she always had pictures of them on her blog.
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Ahhh I’ve had those too! They liked to fly to the neighbors though and would cause trouble in the neighbors gardens 😬. No more Muskovy ducks for me
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Yes – neighbors only tolerate so much. Pekins are nice and friendly and I remember seeing those Pekin ducklings with your son on your site … very sweet!
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Yes ☺️ stormy and waddles ❤️
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We have 8 ducks right now and I hope to pick up some more for waddles to adopt. She deserves some. We have mallards and I think runners and something else that’s I’m not sure of the breed.
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We have Mallard Hybrids at Elizabeth Park. That is what they are called, but from the looks of them, they are Pekins and Mallards that mated. They are tall like a Pekin, but have the Mallard drake plumage. They are just as sociable as the Pekins. That is the only park that I’ve ever seen Pekins or Mallard Hybrids.
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LaShelle – here is a post which shows the Mallard Hybrids. Just scroll down past the halfway mark … there are several photos of them. You cannot miss them. 🙂
https://lindaschaubblog.net/2019/04/07/spring-cleaning-and-preening/
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Stunning!! Love the reflections, too.
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Thank you Jessica! A picture-perfect day and totally calm water made for great reflections of these bathing beauties!
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You’re welcome. Still water makes the best mirror.
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Yes it does Jessica. Several people, including me, are wondering if the ducks see/recognize their reflections?
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That’s a great question!
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I need to get the root of this don’t I?
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Bet it’d be interesting to find out.
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Jessica, I was going to contact Matt at Michigan Duck Rescue & Sanctuary to ask if he knew … I follow his duck rescue site on Facebook. I had a couple of odd-looking ducks begging for food, nuzzling my knees back in the Winter of 2019. It happened two days in a row. This was not normal behavior and I took pics of them and sent them to Matt who has this duck sanctuary and he and his wife and a crew of volunteers make about 40 rescues a day. They have 900 rescued ducks, geese and swans living in a pond and barn where they live. Matt said they were domestic Khaki Campbell ducks and to contact him and he would rescue them, likely someone dumped them there. I went to the Park the next day and they were gone. I sent him a message – he said he’d capture them or send a volunteer, but I never saw them again. Poor babies – I worried about them all Winter, then it was the beginning of Covid. He took a duckling that fell down the sewer and the Mama waddled away without taking a nose count. She lost most of her brood down the sewer grate and this one swam to the other side and was rescued later. 🙂 Anyway, I was going to ask Matt, but first I Googled and learned that only Magpies can recognize their reflections in the water. Apparently (and you and I never thought of this), because waterfowl have their eyes at the side of their heard, they constantly swivel their head to see, thus giving them a panoramic view, with no depth perception. So much for the idea they liked what they saw! I am glad I Googled and found out.
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twice as many cuties! The last one has a drop dripping off of its bill.
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Yes, double the sweetness Wayne! Yes, that was Mama in the last picture and I didn’t notice the drop of water dripping on her bill until I saw it in the reflection. The water was smooth as glass, not a ripple, despite all the people fishing in it.
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you are becoming a eagle eye with your camera
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Thank you Wayne – I was tickled to see the droplet in the reflection!
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Linda……………………………….those were clever shots……………………………Hmmmmmm………………………..you think that the ducks can see their reflections in the water???
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Glad you liked the shots Ann Marie. It was a very calm Coan River, not a ripple in it despite all the people fishing. I have often wondered that very same thing Ann Marie – sometimes I see ducks or geese looking down, especially the geese when they stand in the water and look down because they are taller. Do they like what they see or recognize themselves? We should ask an expert.
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Totally cute and fuzzy, Linda!
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Thanks Terri! They are especially cute bathing beauties!
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Awww…the ducklings are a perfect reflection of their ducky parents. Just like (in my family) the boys are a perfect reflection of their father! How did that happen?:)
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It was such calm water that day Laurie despite all the people fishing at Coan Lake – perfect for reflections. It was the same in my family as your family with your boys resembling Bill. As you know I was an only child, but I looked exactly like my father, especially once I began wearing eyeglasses. Every so often my mother would show me her C-section scar to reinforce that yes, she did have a hand in my creation. 🙂
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Nice reflections! If I can remember how I used to do this, I’d like to post an easy jigsaw puzzle on my site using either number one or number three with full credit and a link. Would that be ok? 🙂
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Thank you DiAnne – feel free to use any image you want to anytime. (P.S. – you don’t have to credit me and link back unless you want to. It is nice enough you like the pictures that much!)
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Those really are perfect reflections!
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The calm water made perfect reflections Joni – I was amazed and happy to see how clear the photos were when I saw them on the screen! You can see the water droplet from the Mama’s bill in the reflection only.
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A water droplet is a great detail. I think I’d better rethink the cell phone camera. I did some research on the Samsung S22 Ultra tonight – with 30X zoom, up to 100X possible, but I didn’t really understand how. The first review raved about it, the second was more cautious – and showed some pictures with regular and zoom – yes certainly it’s an improvement on most cell phone cameras, but the zoomed photos were still fuzzy and not as clear as I would want. It’s always good to google.
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Yes, it is good to Google. I didn’t know you could get 30X on a smartphone, let alone 100X – wow. I always look for reviews if they have them – in this case it kept you from making a wrong purchase. I have heard about Samsung’s “flip phone smartphone” and they had a review by one of the CNET techs who said they were not quite perfected yet. I know iPhones have a good camera. I don’t know anything about comparisons, but there are two contributors from CNET who give reviews about products, virus protection … it is the CNET site re: tech. I will put the site in a separate comment in case the link goes to your SPAM filter.
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Here is CNET’s tech site Joni. Maybe you can compare there.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/
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Thanks Linda!
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Excellent captures! Way to go!!!
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Glad you liked them Shelley! A perfectly calm day made for perfect reflections.
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Yes, indeed!! 😁😎🥰
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I love the reflection image in the water, Linda. Lovely captures of these cute fellas.
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Thank you Hugh. The water was calm, without a ripple, so I really lucked out that day getting the ducklings’ reflections.
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Adorable little munchkin! I wonder if they notice their own reflections?
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Even though they were a little older than the first set of ducklings, they were still in their “fuzzy” stage, so really adorable. I’ve wondered that before too Barbara, especially with the geese who often stand up in a body of water, then drink. Do they notice themselves when they bend over to drink?
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I’m smiling here. I’ve missed your photos of your *friends* Very cute
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And I’ve missed your comments about my critter friends Ally. These ducklings were so sweet and the calm water made perfect reflections of these cutie pies.
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Sweet shots! 😀
I’ll be in Momence, Illinois on Saturday at a wonderful double river that flows near that small town. There are usually lots of ducks there. I sure hope i see some! (I have to bring some bread!)
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That sounds like fun Tom. But don’t take bread – wildlife experts are discouraging bread and crackers now (though most people, including me, have thrown out bread chunks for years). They say to give them lettuce or greens, even grapes halved instead. And cracked corn too, but the problem with “people food” is, except for the lettuce which may float on the surface of the water, you have to feed them on land then. I read to give them dried oatmeal, so I took some of my own oatmeal in a bag, dumped it on the grass and they never touched it.
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Nice reflection photo of these cute fuzzy birds!!
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Thank you Esther – they looked sleeker in their reflections than their actual fuzzy heads/bodies, still wet from the water.
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Specular reflection of light. Enjoyed your wordless Wednesday photo selection down to the last drop.
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Thank you TD! A perfectly calm day made for incredible reflections. You’re clever – “good to the last drop” would have made an awesome title!
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Hi Linda, long time, no see … hope you’re well!
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I am well Jeanine and just thought of you today as I walked past a house with gnomes. I decided since you had not blogged in so long, you liked the Italy’s pasta, wine and ambiance so much that you just decided to stay! Welcome back
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Ha ha, that would’ve been lovely! There was so much work to catch up after the trip and school holidays chew up time like you wouldn’t believe it … I did soack up plenty of sun for the next months to come! Catch you soon
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Hope re-entry into the rigors of real life is smooth for you!
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Water always looks so appealing in photos.
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Yes, especially on a calm day like this was – the water was so still it looked like glass.
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The ducks looked calm and not perturbed at all. Great photo.
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Thank you cav12. They were feeling mellow after their swim and then bath. 🙂
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