Marsh Madness. #Wordless Wednesday #OMG, it’s Nessie!

Posted on October 19, 2022 by Linda Schaub

Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.

About Linda Schaub

This is my first blog and I enjoy writing each post immensely. I started a walking regimen in 2011 and in 2013 I decided to create a blog as a means of memorializing the people, places and things seen on my daily walks. I have always enjoyed people watching, so my blog is peppered with folks I meet or reflections of characters I have known through the years. Often something piques my interest, or evokes a pleasant memory from my memory bank, so this becomes a “slice o’ life” blog post. I respect and appreciate nature and my interactions with Mother Nature’s gifts is also a common theme. Sometimes the most-ordinary items become fodder for points to ponder over and touch upon. I retired in March 2024 after a career in the legal field. I was a legal secretary for almost 45 years, primarily working in downtown Detroit, then working from my home. I graduated from Wayne State University with a degree in Mass Communications (print journalism) in 1978, though I’ve never worked in that field. I would like to think this blog is the writer in me finally emerging!! Walking and writing have met, shaken hands and the creative juices are flowing in Walkin’, Writin’, Wit & Whimsy. I hope you think so too. - Linda Schaub
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48 Responses to Marsh Madness. #Wordless Wednesday #OMG, it’s Nessie!

  1. rajkkhoja says:
    October 19, 2022 at 5:44 am

    Beautiful bird!
    Excellent capture the bird picture!

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    • Linda Schaub says:
      October 19, 2022 at 8:44 pm

      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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  2. Anne says:
    October 19, 2022 at 6:12 am

    I particularly enjoy the first photograph.

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  3. peggy says:
    October 19, 2022 at 6:48 am

    Great shots of this Redwing Blackbird – love your sense of humor. Lol

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  4. Barbara Rodgers says:
    October 19, 2022 at 7:42 am

    🤣 Great pictures of the red-winged blackbird! That log is rather monster-like.

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    • Linda Schaub says:
      October 19, 2022 at 9:27 pm

      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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  5. Terri Webster Schrandt says:
    October 19, 2022 at 11:24 am

    Who is eating who? Great shots, Linda!

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  6. Laurie says:
    October 19, 2022 at 12:44 pm

    Wow! It that’s Nessie, that red-winged blackbird is in trouble!

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  7. Ally Bean says:
    October 19, 2022 at 3:49 pm

    Nice photos, nice title for the post. Happy Wednesday, Linda

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  8. Tom's Nature-up-close Photography and Mindfulness Blog says:
    October 21, 2022 at 12:20 am

    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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    • Linda Schaub says:
      October 21, 2022 at 7:19 pm

      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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  9. Vibeassist says:
    October 21, 2022 at 12:30 pm

    So beautiful love the caption

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  10. indianeskitchen says:
    October 23, 2022 at 12:33 am

    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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    • Linda Schaub says:
      October 23, 2022 at 9:54 pm

      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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  11. Hugh W. Roberts says:
    October 23, 2022 at 6:04 am

    Another bird I’ve never seen in the UK. Thanks for bringing it to us, Linda.

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    • Linda Schaub says:
      October 23, 2022 at 10:01 pm

      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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  12. Amorina Rose says:
    October 23, 2022 at 8:24 am

    Wonderful images as always

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  13. Joni says:
    October 23, 2022 at 1:51 pm

    It does look like something emerging from the deep!

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  14. Amorina Rose says:
    October 24, 2022 at 3:48 am

    Put them together in a video and put it on your blog. It would be awesome.

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    • Linda Schaub says:
      October 24, 2022 at 8:45 pm

      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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  15. Shelley@QuaintRevival.com says:
    October 24, 2022 at 6:48 am

    That’s a clever title, Linda. Great photos of the RedWing Blackbird. They can be so loud and territorial.

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    • Linda Schaub says:
      October 24, 2022 at 9:07 pm

      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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      • Shelley@QuaintRevival.com says:
        October 25, 2022 at 5:30 am

        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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      • Linda Schaub says:
        October 25, 2022 at 8:03 pm

        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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      • Shelley@QuaintRevival.com says:
        October 26, 2022 at 5:28 am

        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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      • Linda Schaub says:
        October 26, 2022 at 6:54 pm

        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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      • Shelley@QuaintRevival.com says:
        October 27, 2022 at 7:27 am

        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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      • Linda Schaub says:
        October 28, 2022 at 8:22 am

        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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      • Shelley@QuaintRevival.com says:
        October 29, 2022 at 6:02 am

        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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      • Linda Schaub says:
        October 30, 2022 at 7:38 am

        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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      • Shelley@QuaintRevival.com says:
        October 30, 2022 at 11:07 am

        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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      • Linda Schaub says:
        October 30, 2022 at 9:42 pm

        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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      • Shelley@QuaintRevival.com says:
        October 31, 2022 at 6:19 am

        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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      • Linda Schaub says:
        October 31, 2022 at 8:36 pm

        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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      • Shelley@QuaintRevival.com says:
        November 1, 2022 at 6:08 am

        😁😁😎😁😎😍🥰

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  16. J P says:
    October 31, 2022 at 4:48 am

    Very nice! But now I wonder if there is a blackwing redbird.

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