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 
Beautiful bird!
Excellent capture the bird picture!
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Glad you liked this bird rajkkhoja. This is a Red-winged Blackbird and they live near in and around marshy areas. They are the first bird to arrive here in Spring and are now gone from all the marshy parks as they migrated South for the Winter. (They are smart.) 🙂
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Yes, it’s very smart 🤓! I much like. Here not seen birds.
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I particularly enjoy the first photograph.
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Thanks Anne. I wish I was a little closer to it, but I liked how it was peering into the water, then took off in a flash (like he saw a ghost or Nessie).
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Great shots of this Redwing Blackbird – love your sense of humor. Lol
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Glad you liked the shots and my sense of humor Peggy. I wish it had been more close up but I couldn’t resist this picture of the bird with its mouth open and peering into the water. 🙂
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🤣 Great pictures of the red-winged blackbird! That log is rather monster-like.
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Thanks Barbara – I wish it was a wee bit closer but I liked the pose so I wanted to use it. I had to laugh at this bird peering into the water and then bolting. I know Winter is on the way as the red-winged blackbirds have left the marshy areas, even at the park where I walk daily. They are the first birds to arrive in Spring and it is a welcome sight to see them.
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Who is eating who? Great shots, Linda!
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Thanks Terri. This Red-winged Blackbird looked into the water and he just freaked out and bolted. Either it was Nessie or he was having a bad feather day!
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Wow! It that’s Nessie, that red-winged blackbird is in trouble!
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You’ve got that right Laurie – if Nessie rose out of the water, there would be one less red-winged blackbird at the marsh!
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Nice photos, nice title for the post. Happy Wednesday, Linda
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Thanks Ally – I was not as close to this bird as the others, so I had to come up with a clever title. Back at you!
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As i’ve said before, Redwings tend to scold me when i’m around with a camera. They are very territorial birds!
Great shots! 😀
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Thanks Tom – glad you liked the shots. I wished I had been just a little closer. I have seen the Red-winged Blackbirds get angry at geese and their goslings for no reason, pecking at the adults’ heads and necks while they were exiting the water. They were nowhere near their nests – their nests are on the other side of the Park at the marsh. I had an interesting thing happen to me in early Summer. There was a dead baby bird on the walking path. I couldn’t identify it by its feathers as it had none. No tree around – not close to the marsh where the Redwings built their nests. As I walked past the dead baby, a male Redwing came over and started dive-bombing me. I learned from another walker who witnessed this that the same thing happened to him the first time he walked past the dead baby. I have to figure the male Redwing was guarding its dead offspring and didn’t want us near in case we did something to the body. It was eerie yet amazing at the same time. The bird was swooping very low. I didn’t walk on that side again and next time there, the body was gone.
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Wow, that is interesting! Paternal instinct! It’s a higher order (involving complex brains).
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I thought you would find that info interesting Tom. It was as if the fellow walker and I had intruded into his grieving and also he wanted to protect his offspring. The divebombing was scary, but the moment was moving. And people use the moniker “bird brains” – that’s just not true!
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So beautiful love the caption
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Thank you – glad you liked it Vibeassist.
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I always like seeing them in the spring. We have lived here for 30 years and we never saw them except near the water. Now they are at our feeder eating sunflower seeds. Food must be getting scarce for them. It is the same with the seagulls, they follow the farmers tilling the fields in the spring eating the bugs or worms. They were never seen this far from the water in the past.
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I like seeing them in Spring too Diane as it means Spring has arrived, even if not on the calendar, but it is a hopeful sign. Ours are gone now and migrating South (smart birds). I have seen them eating sunflower seeds I put down for the squirrels and birds and I’ve also seen them eating peanuts which surprised me. They fly down from a tree/sky onto the perimeter path to grab one. I am surprised about the seagulls being that far from water. You know what I see here lately – crows! They are everywhere and they are big!
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Another bird I’ve never seen in the UK. Thanks for bringing it to us, Linda.
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You’re welcome Hugh. They are the first birds to return in the Spring from migrating down South. This is the male with its beautiful coloring. If you see the female you wouldn’t know it was the same species – brown and drab, resembling a sparrow.
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Wonderful images as always
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Thank you Barbara. I’ve been having fun with all the bird images I’ve collected this year.
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It does look like something emerging from the deep!
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I thought so too Joni. At first I was going to say “caption this” as there were so many ways to title it.
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Put them together in a video and put it on your blog. It would be awesome.
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I would like to learn how to do videos Barbara. The videos of the baby squirrel from the girls at the Park were something fun to add to that post. I have to expand my horizons. 🙂
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That’s a clever title, Linda. Great photos of the RedWing Blackbird. They can be so loud and territorial.
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Thanks Shelley! At one time I thought I’d make it a “caption this photo” for something different. Or have the bird say “I lost my contact lens!.” Picking titles is half the fun sometimes. I am happy to see these birds in Springtime as it is a hopeful sign of better weather. They are the first birds to arrive after migration north begins and they sing their hearts out in the marsh. They are territorial and destructive – you’re sure right about that. One Spring I saw a RedWing Blackbird twice try to enter a Robin’s nest while the Robin was away getting food; the first time it was just eggs and the second it was hatchlings and I chased it both times. It wasn’t happy.
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You have such fun with titles. I often wish you were at the side of my desk and coaching me for a better title!
I think we’ve seen flocks of those birds, or grackles migrating (aka, murmurations) the past couple of weeks. It is fascinating to watch.
Aw, that’s sweet you chased the bird away from the nest!
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When I first began blogging, I went through a period of one-paragraph-long posts with one-word titles. I was blogging several times a week, sometimes no pictures and other times using stock photos. So my entire walk home I’d be thinking of that one word to describe my post – it was difficult to do sometimes. You are able to do prompts – I would be lost if I did that. I’ve only done one prompt and that was an after-the-fact prompt when Yvette suggested I send a link from a published 2021 Word Wednesday sunflower post to Terri as she had a sunflower prompt or yellow prompt that week.
I saw a murmuration of either grackles or starling a few weeks ago at Lake Erie Metropark. I got pictures of the tail end but my photos won’t show all the swooping and moving as a group as I was distracted by something else. I saw the bulrushes move by the side of the road and something short was crouched down. I couldn’t see what it is but they have mink there and I thought it might be a mink or maybe a fox … having seen neither of those critters, I waited and wasn’t looking up/ahead. It was a cat – suddenly I saw a cat face looking at me. I hope I got some of the murmuration at least.
I did not like that bird – I kept passing it by and it was always on a branch by the nest. The Robin Mama got into a fight with it one time – clashing bodies with that bird when she saw it at the nest. I was shouting at it and the Robin Mama no doubt heard me yelling at it and wondered what the noise was.
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I love how your mind is always thinking and being creative! You notice so much, be proud of yourself for everything you do see. Plus your walks and blog writing are perfect hobbies to balance out your time spent at work!
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You make my head swell Shelley. 🙂 I do have to tell you I have taken to keeping a spiral notebook handy as I think of different things for upcoming posts, despite taking the time to write a quick draft on the longer treks. This is more for holiday ideas. I have decided to do a funny poem for Christmas and the other day wrote it all longhand when it came to me. I am ever grateful to Marge for suggesting I have a blog … I think I’d be very bored with only work in my life, as much as I enjoy the walks and photography.
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You’re welcome – thanks for being a role-model for us bloggers 😉
I can’t wait to see your holiday posts!
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Thank you Shelley – right now I am eight days behind in Reader and never made it to Comments as I was off yesterday and worn out from an errand-filled day … this morning, since I am ahead on my miles, I am just going to try and catch up a little here to stay “a good blogger”. 🙂 I hope my Christmas post works. I wrote it out right then and I think it will be fun. I have to finish my Halloween post this weekend, then time to get the Thanksgiving “shoot” ready.
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YAY! You took a day off, that’s great, now you’ll have a free weekend to enjoy the nice weather! 😁😎🤗
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Well we have some pretty dense fog again this morning Shelley … I just went to bed at 10:30 and decided to get up early today to do some comments/Reader and have to do tomorrow’s Halloween post. I feel overwhelmed by things to do while factoring in Mother Nature and her weather. I cannot see the lawn for leaves, none which are my own and none of the neighbors bag their leaves … they blow them into the street. Part of me says … let ’em go ’til next weekend. It’s going to rain tonight/all day tomorrow, so I can’t do them Monday a.m. for yard waste pickup. It was a glorious day yesterday when I finally got out around 1:30 p.m. Sun was glowing thru the yellow leaves … no coat. Fog horns down on the Detroit River blowing incessantly. Enjoy your day – hope you finish up any outside chores and can get in a walk!
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That darn fog. I’m glad to hear it cleared and you did get outside to enjoy the weather.
We’re working on finishing up chores – I paused to enjoy the weather though – have to soak up the sun and temps while they’re still here!
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Warmish temps all week after tomorrow – yay for that. We didn’t even get one inch of rain in October … rain overnight though as we enter spooky times. Glad you had a break to enjoy the warm weather.
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Wow…that’s a dry October. I hope that doesn’t mean that November will have lots of snow……..
I did enjoy the break, the weather was beautiful on Saturday.
I hope you have a great week, Linda!
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I hope not either Shelley – Saturday was a gorgeous day and I hated to come inside. We have nice weather Tuesday – Thursday so I will make the most of my morning walks before the time change.
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😁😁😎😁😎😍🥰
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Very nice! But now I wonder if there is a blackwing redbird.
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Good question JP … I have seen so many new (to me) birds this year, nothing would surprise me. Wait until you see the Lavender Guinea Fowl.
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