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 
That bird was in hog heaven. He totally enjoyed his bath. Love that song you mentioned – splish splash I was taking a bath. Ha
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It sure was Peggy – that was at Coan Lake at Heritage Park and I think that it lives there all the time now. It was having a great time as it was the only bird in the water. 🙂 I like that song. I used to have some friends who had a 50s band and we would go to their gigs sometimes, so I got to know a lot of the 50s songs.
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Ah, the 50’s – I was a teenager in the late 50’s. I love the music from that era.
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I wish I had been a teenager in that era Peggy as I think the music was fun and the clothes were as well. I knew a lot of the music from then as my friend’s group played the same songs at every gig, so I got to know them. I never missed watching “Happy Days” when it was on.
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Wonderful flying the bird. So amazing swimming bird. Beautiful capture the picture. I like.
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Glad you liked the picture rajkkhoja. Cormorants are really unusual looking the way they dry out their wings because they have no oil on their feathers so they must “drip dry” – it was the only bird in the pond, so it was having a great time!
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A bath with a shower — who could ask for anything more? 😉 Lucky cormorant. 🙂
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Yes, I wanted to pass along a bar of soap and a towel for it as it was having such a good time all by itself at the lake. 🙂
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Love your pics!
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Thank you Anne – this Cormorant was having a whale of a time, all by itself, enjoying the fountain at Coan Lake.
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Great photos. LOL – it’s so fun to watch them take baths. Can you imagine if humans were so flamboyant? What a mess we’d make in our bathrooms. 🤣😂🤣
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Glad you liked the photos Shelley. This is the resident Cormorant at Coan Lake and he was having a great time – he/she was the only bird in the water that morning and loving it. Oh, you’re right about that – what a mess we would have to clean up in our bathrooms. I wanted to hand it a bar of soap and a towel as it seemed to be having such fun.
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Yes, I enjoyed the photos/post. Maybe he/she was flapping for joy to invite others to join in on the fun? Glad you were there to keep him/her company!
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Now there’s a thought! Kind of like “c’mon in, the water is perfect!”
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💦🦆💦🦆😁
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Always love your duck photos!!
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Glad you liked them LaShelle. He was the only one on that side of the Lake and having a great time splashing away. 🙂
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That’s so wonderful
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What a happy cormorant!
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He/she sure is Anne – the only one in Coan Lake on top of it. 🙂
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after bathing many birds spread their wings to help dry them. I see these guys doing this all the time. Eagles do it as well.
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As I understand it, Cormorants don’t have any oil in their feathers, so they have to spread their wings to dry them off. They like to dive … I see them dive and they don’t come up for air and when they do, it is quite far away, so it’s difficult to get a shot of them. In this case, it was the only waterfowl in Coan Lake so it was easier.
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Looks like it’s having a good time. 🙂
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It does doesn’t it Ruth? It was the only bird in the water at Coan Lake so it could go under the fountain, dive in the water and have a good ol’ time.
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Cormorants are one of my favorite birds, even though they are not colorful or flashy. They always seem so playful to me and I like that!
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This one was having a whale of a time at Coan Lake Laurie. It is the resident Comorant there and it was the only bird in the water, so it was dipping and diving and kept going under the fountain. It was the first time I really got a good picture of it as there are usually ducks around. I was at Lake Erie Metropark and saw my first Pied-billed Grebe recently. It was similarly diving repeatedly and enjoying itself in one of the lagoons. It makes you smile, just when you see a bird enjoying a bath in a puddle or birdbath.
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I don’t see too many Pied-billed grebes around here, either. The cormorants are usually diving for fish when they submerge. They don’t eat water plants or algae like a lot of other ducks – they are fish-eaters.
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They do stock Coan Lake with fish so no wonder it has taken up permanent residence. It is catch-and-release for the angler, but an all-you-can-eat buffet for the ducks, geese, Heron (only one of them) and Cormorant.
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How lucky you have been this year to get beautiful pictures of birds I have never seen! What fun he must have have taking a shower. 💕
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You’re right, I have had a good run of getting unusual birds’ pictures this year Diane. They weren’t even on my “birdie bucket list”. I also got a Pied-billed Grebe from a recent trip to Lake Erie Metropark. That was also a first for me. They are a little bit odd looking too with an eerie call, almost like a loon. I was thinking I’d post different bird pictures through early Fall.
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I don’t think I have seen a Pied-billed Grebe before. I hope you do post different bird pictures, I know I would love that.
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I would not have known that Pied-billed Griebe if not for following the Detroit Audubon site. It looks a little like a duck, only rounder and has a striped beak. That’s great Diane as I think I have enough bird pictures for the next 5-6 weeks. It has been fun holding over a few pictures from my long Monday posts (which are already long enough) to use for a Wordless Wednesday post.
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Wow!!!! What fabulous pictures!
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Thanks Jessica – it was really enjoying its bath and shower! 🙂
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Looks like that bird is having a refreshing time in the summer sunshine.
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Yes, they are so funny these Cormorants. They have no oil on their feathers, so they climb out of the water and immediately spread their wings to air-dry them. Birds always seem like they enjoy taking a bath. My canary did not like using a bird bathtub that hooked on his cage door, preferring to hop into his water cup, sink down into it and splash around instead.
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Great pics, Linda! Birds need to bathe too! 😀
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Yes, they do Tom and this bird was clearly loving his bathtime ritual!
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What a character, great capture, Linda. Interesting to know that about their feathers!
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Thanks Terri – they are quite the characters with those wings outstretched like that. I go to a park along the Detroit River where the Cormorants roost in trees. When the trees are bare, you can look up and see 40-50 Cormorants roosting there. I wasn’t sure what they were at first, until I recognized the long, hooked bills.
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I have to smile. That bird looks so happy. Nice pic
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Thanks Ally – yes, he was the only one in Coan Lake so no one to compete for shower time or dive time while he was there.
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I cannot recall noticing a wild cormorant before, and the photos are great. The cormorant is supposedly the bird that was the inspiration for the hood ornaments on Packard automobiles for many years. A search for “Packard cormorant” will turn up gobs of examples.
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That was interesting JP. I did the search and did turn up a lot of examples. I have to say I would not have recognized the cormorant in the hood ornament. The ornament looks sleeker than a cormorant looks with its long hooked bill and its wide webbed feet. Thank you for sharing that info – now when I see one I’ll think of a Packard. The Packard plant in Detroit is old and in bad shape and was to be demolished this year after a foreign investor bought it and wanted to repurpose it (possibly for shops or apartments), then lost interest. It is quite an eyesore now.
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Sure splashing delight !
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I wanted to offer some soap and a towel. 🙂
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Hahahaha
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