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 
Beautiful shoot Swallows. They himself build the best on the tree.
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Thank you rajkkhoja – glad you liked the picture. How are you coming along with your blog?
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How i start, which subject on write. I have no idea. How do ican write blog.
Thank you so much!
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How about a hobby or family – that would be a good start. Or your job or retirement?
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Iam a retired person. My hobby is reading & walking.
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You could do book reviews or take pictures while walking like I do. When I first started this blog, I didn’t take pictures, I just wrote about my walks in the neighborhood. It doesn’t have to be fancy, just simple – I started very simple.
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Thank you so much.
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You’re welcome rajkkhoja – I think you’ll be good at it and enjoy blogging once you have your site up and running.
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I love to watch swallows in flight. I don’t see as many of them around my area as I use to see.
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I do too Peggy – they swoop and dive and there are so many of them at the marsh at Lake Erie Metropark that I don’t know how they keep from crashing into one another. Every since I had the luck with that first group of Barn Swallows perching on a tree, I look every time now. I was lucky they were tired and perched (but not too tired to talk).
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Great photo of barn swallows, Linda! I love to hear their chatter. There are a bunch of them perching on wires here in South Carolina. That usually means they are getting ready to fly south soon.
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Thanks Laurie – I thought it was funny that one seemed full of chatter and the other one was just looking at it, not a peep. Do birds get a pained look on their face when subjected to excessive chatter like humans sometimes do? We’re having some mild weather, so our barn swallows are still around. I see them at Council Point Park as well. South Carolina sounds nice – are you there for a race or just passing through?
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I don’t know about birds getting a pained expression. I have never seen it! We are in SC at the beach with 4 other couples. The 10 of us have been friends for over 40 years. It’s a trip we have taken before but not since the pandemic. It feels good to be able to get together with friends again!
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One bird was listening intently to the other’s tale. 🙂 I seem to remember you two visiting with those other couples – you might have mentioned it in a post. You have made the most of your last year since COVID restrictions have lessened a bit. Have fun!
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I don’t see birds like these around here. They might be here, but I don’t notice them? Probably a commentary on me
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Ally, we have them wherever there is water – even at Council Point Park where I walk daily. These were at Lake Erie Metropark. Earlier this Summer, I saw some perching which is odd as they are usually swooping and diving, so I went back to see if I could get more shots and this was one. One Barn Swallow chattering away; the other silent – cracked me up.
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Cute shot as if they are talking about their day, Linda! We get the violet-green swallows who want to nest anywhere like BBQ grills and chimney flues.
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Thank you Terri – it made me smile too as I thought they were having a conversation, with one animated and the other patiently listening. Oh, that would be annoying having Swallows building nests where you don’t want them. I deal with a Robin every Spring/early Summer who insists on building a nest in the elbow of my porch coach light. I have to stuff the area with a box that fills up the this “elbow” nesting area. I have to stay on it after April because it will build a move-in ready nest in less than 24 hours. I can’t open the front door and mud and grass are all over the mailbox and porch. This has been going on for at least 20 years and the original Mama is long gone.
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Funny how birds get their genetic ideas in their heads!
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Yes for sure – the original Robin followed me around the yard while I watered and it pulled mulch out of the garden and threw it on the grass. Bigtime attitude!
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I wonder what they are chattering about, Linda? If they were in the UK, it would be about the weather.
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Interesting to wonder Hugh as there is lots of chattering going on. I’ve been noticing all your rain in the video clips I’ve been watching this week. I want to tell you I spent a week with my parents in England in May 1979 and we did not have a drop of rain the entire time.
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The UK is well known for being wet, Linda, but we have occasions when it does not rain for many weeks resulting in a drought. I live in Swansea, Wales, the wettest city in the UK. We did have a dry August, but it’s rained a lot since the beginning of September.
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Interesting – you hear so much about the perpetual rain in England and I guess that climate change has taken its toll in the form of droughts for the UK as well. An umbrella is your friend Hugh. A fellow blogger lives in Tofino, British Columbia and it is the same thing as you, as more than two-thirds of their days are rainy and they are wearing their “Tofino Tuxedos” the name they give to rain slickers.
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Out of the four countries in the UK, England is the dryest, Linda. Some areas get a lot of rain, but the east of England doesn’t get much. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland all get much more.
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My geography of the UK and its weather conditions is evidently poor Hugh. I had no idea – it seemed to me that jolly old England gets the bum rap for raining so much.
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LOL – yes, they can be loud when they’re chattering! Great capture!
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Thank you Shelley. The one is so intent on the other’s chatter. Oh yes, you’re so right about the noise. When they are swooping and diving in the lagoon, they are tweeting and twittering to one another the entire time.
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You’re welcome. I wonder if they’re cheering each other on, “Look, I got another bug over here!” LOL
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Yes, I’ll bet they do – they are full of chatter, that’s for sure. They are gone for the season now – gone from Lake Erie Metropark and also Heritage Park. (Now that Summer is on the wane, I feel nostalgic about it.) Hope you and Mister are feeling more like yourselves and got out for a walk today. We got to 85!
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I hear ya about feeling nostalgic about summer. Despite our complaints about the heat and rain, we aren’t ready to let go of it yet. Yay for 85!!!
Yes, we have been able to get back out and walk. Slower than our ‘norm’ but happy to be moving!
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Great you are back to your normal life and your walking regimen Shelley – that is good news. We are hot again today. Got out earlier today – yesterday I left later due to the fog and the heat/humidity was intense by the time I got home mid-afternoon.
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It does feel good to be walking! We’re heading into a week in the 60s and low 70s.
I hope you have a great walking week!!
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I like 60s and 70s. I’m bulking up the miles in case the bottom falls out in November!!
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Good thinking!!!!!
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They do look like they are engaged in a thoughtful conversation. Nice picture, Linda!
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Thanks Barbara – when I saw the picture I thought the same thing and it made me smile.
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You captured the face of the one on the left. I love swallows. We see flocks of them when we visit the Delaware Bay. I have a photo I took of one that I love. Perhaps one of these days I will get around to painting it.
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I didn’t even notice it as much at the time, but on the screen it struck me that they looked like humans – one talks, the other listens. That would be nice for you to paint the swallow; I’ll look forward to seeing the painting. I have been following a plein air painting group in the area. I would like to join the group once I am retired. I met up with them twice now but not joined them to paint as don’t have time now between work, walking and blogging. They go to local venues once or twice a week to paint April through October. I have bought some paints and pastels and charcoals. I took a class many years ago, but sure could use a refresher when I’m retired.
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My first thought was, birdie on the right is singing so beautifully that birdie on the left is listening with open-mouthed wonder 🙂
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Well that’s a fun twist on the photo Dave. I thought the bird on the right looked bigger and I originally wondered if it was the parent?
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They are so skilled and accomplished in the air… real dynamic, expert flyers! 😁
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Yes, they are Tom – when there are so many of them I marvel how they don’t fly into the others! It’s rare to see them perching and not moving!
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It looks like a conversation. Lovely shot.
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Thank you Barbara – I thought so too. One swallow chattering away and the other patiently listening.
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It really does seem like one bird is listening so well!
And quite the chat you captured here! Excellent capture
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Thanks Yvette – yes, very intently listening! The quiet bird looked bigger and I wondered if “the chatterer” was a mate or a juvenile.
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Yes – makes me wonder too
And this photo reminded me of one those popular photos that they use for comics –
And I could imagine a fun quote added here
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I should have asked for a quote in my headline – that would have been fun to do Yvette!
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Actually I love what you did – mentioned the virtue of listening in the title and let us imagine the convo!
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Thank you Yvette … getting interested in photography again through this blog, after a lapse of not taking photos for so many years, has been a real joy in my life.
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Nice shot! That is definitely not a type of bird we see around here.
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Thanks Janis. These barn swallows dive and swoop at the marshes and lagoons at Lake Erie Metropark. I’ve been lucky this Summer to catch them taking a break on a branch which is rare as they eat insects in mid-air or are always taking mud to build nests, always non-stop.
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When Terry cuts the grass they swoop in front of him eating any bugs. He only saw them once this year which is unusual. You picture of them is stunning Linda!
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Thanks Diane – glad you like this photo. You mean that Terry stirs up bugs while cutting the lawn so they can’t resist getting them by swooping down – how funny! They dive bomb at the marsh all the time and I was lucky as this was the second time that some of them settled down on a branch for a few minutes (rare to do that). They are gone now until next Spring.
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