Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.
Linda Schaub
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Linda Schaub
- Who is that masked man, er … raccoon? #Wordless Wednesday #My new furry friend at the Park – NOT!
- “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!
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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 
Wonderful Bird! Which it’s?
Nice write & post.
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Thank you rajkkhoja – glad you like this post. This bird is a young Ring-billed Seagull. I have a lot of adult seagull photos in my blog through the years, but maybe not since you have started following me. The adults are usually white with a touch of gray, but you can tell this is a young seagull by its brown spots.
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Thank lots. Iam glad too. No, I haven’t started follow. But i go your old post and read some blog post.
So beautiful young seagull by brown spots. I like.
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Hi rajkkhoja – sorry I am late responding. I was off work yesterday and after an errand-filled day was nodding off at the computer, so I just shut it off and I am catching up a little this morning. A fellow blogger from Michigan did what you are doing as to going to old posts and reading them. Sandra lives in Northern Michigan and they have very cold and snowy Winters, starting around mid-October through early April. So she is not out and about too much in those months and. Because she blogs about nature and what she sees on her walks, she started reading my blog in reverse. In the beginning I only wrote about walks taken in the neighborhood.
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🙏 Please you don’t say sorry to me. It’s right time you reply me. Iam so…. So…. & Really , Iam so glad too. You always sweet reply me. You don’t mind. 🌷
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Thank you for saying that rajkkhoja. I am going to try and catch up in Reader this weekend. I am now eight days behind. It takes forever to catch up, then Monday comes and I have my Monday post, then Wednesday and soon I am behind again. 🙂
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Thank you so much! Iam so glad 😊
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The first photograph is delightful.
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Thanks Anne! I was torn between saying it was yawning and screaming. 🙂
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“I am here, and this is my space!” Now that that’s settled…
Great pictures, Linda.
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I like your title Barbara – assertive little seagull wasn’t it? I was torn between calling that wide-open mouth a scream or a yawn for this young seagull. And unfortunately he/she had to be standing next to that tar patch line, then once it opened its mouth, it walked away from the line.
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Ha Ha Yes, screaming always makes a person feel better.
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Yes, get all that anger out of your system with a good scream and ’tis the season for it after all!
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You are getting better at bird identification, Linda. Juvenile seagulls are TOUGH! Way to go!!!
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Thank you Laurie! Juvenile Seagulls are kind of cute with those spots aren’t they? I finally treated myself to a bird book just for Michigan birds. Somewhere downstairs in my old desk, (which is surrounded by Rubbermaid totes and not easily accessible), is my “Audubon Land Bird Guide” I got as a kid. This seagull, after its big yawn, was content to stand there and pose, then walked behind me on the path for a while.
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haha that first photo is cute! I like seagulls, a lot of people find them annoying but I think they are real little characters 🙂
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Thanks Susan – I thought it was cute too and I was torn between calling that wide-open mouth a scream or a yawn (I think it was a very large yawn). I like seagulls too because they will sit on the shorelines railing and not move – good for taking their pictures. They do have some personality and will let you get fairly close before they rebel, squawk and take off. This one was so young, it did not fear me looming over it.
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Clever. I like this little guy, or is it a girl?
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Thanks Ally. I can’t tell if it is a guy or girl from looking at it and I understand from going on a few bird sites that only experienced birders can tell them apart since they’re close in size and have identical plumage. This young gull was in no hurry to move and didn’t mind me looming over it.
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No question he/she had something to say (or scream) here. Don’t you wish we could speak “Seagull”?
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Yes, it was an assertive youngster Dave, that’s for sure. It would be helpful to speak “Seagull” sometimes, especially when they’re swooping overhead and I would ask if I need to duck or could say “no treats here – sorry!”
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The post is wordless but it looks as though that bird has a lot to say 😉
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You’re sure right about that orthodoxmom3! It’s mouth was open so wide it was either catching flies (as my mom would say when I made a big yawn) or complaining about something!
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Fabulous!!
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Thanks Jessica – glad you liked it!
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If only we knew what it was thinking. 🙂
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Indeed – it probably thought “lady, if you’re not going to feed me, then I’ll best be movin’ along!”
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Haha!!! Maybe so.
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That’s how I feel today having driven in the pouring rain and gotten thoroughly soaked trying to find parking near the camera shop, only to have the owner tell me the camera I was interested in wasn’t charged and it would take 3 hours?? He called me yesterday and said it was there. Really did he think I was going to buy it sight unseen? I had no words. There’s a reason that camera shop has a bad reputation for lack of customer service. Waste of time and gas…..
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Oh, I’m sorry to hear that Joni. Yesterday I was off work … we weren’t busy and I had a lot of errands I wanted to wrap up, so I decided to take it off and enjoy the beautiful weather weekend instead of doing errands. It’s bad enough to need to rake leaves, none which are my own – people in my neighborhood don’t rake, they let them fall and blow away. Sigh. So, it was beautiful yesterday and a few times I thought to myself “maybe I should have enjoyed today instead or errands?” But, while out I was thinking to myself “Joni had a good day weather-wise with her new camera to capture some harvest and Halloween decor.” I guess not. How about if you try a Best Buy – do you have one near you? They would have sample cameras on sale to try and would have been charged up, then they give you the the new one to take home and you’ve got some insight beforehand. With the compact digital, he did show me how it worked, then I went home and wondered where the software and USB cord was and it was not clear with the directions nor the brief tutorial and there was no tutorial on YouTube where I usually go to learn something new, so I was mad and had to return only to find out I needed to put the camera card into the computer, or use the card reader (about $10.00) but he recommended that … this is what I was mentioning the other day. So you had to/have to return there when that camera is charged up or consider the smartphone with the good camera quality? Consider getting a backup battery while you laying out $$$. I do that, especially for cold weather when it is hard on batteries, or if it is gloomy and gray and your flash may be going off, though it is not dark. I just carry it with me and when at Heritage Park two weeks ago, I took so many pictures on a sunny day, the battery suddenly gave “warning – low battery” notice, so I swapped it right there. I have a set of newer batteries but am keeping them for Winter. I rotate them so they get equal usage. Good luck with this Joni and it will be nice this weekend to get some Halloween/harvest pics done.
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I went back yesterday Linda and bought it! It was a good price $359 as it was $499 at Bestbuy. I find BestBuy and Staples have cheaper cameras and some really good deals on their websites but nothing ever seems to be in stock? So I knew it was a good price and as soon as I held it I was impressed with the 30X zoom and the viewfinder. There were two different guys on and they weren’t too busy, although the one didn’t seem to know much about Panasonic brands – he was fiddling around with the settings but I wasn’t sure he knew what he was doing. There is a basic manual and a cheat sheet to get started. I didn’t even take it out of the box last night as I figured that was enough for the day. It comes with a lithium battery, not rechargable ones like my current Olympus old digital. There is an adapter/recharger cord with it. He sold me a camera card which was $40 and can hold way more pics than I’ll ever need 2000. (Not sure why it didn’t come with it?) and I bought a carrying case so with some new rechargable batteries for the old camera and the 13% Canadian tax it came to $500, which is what it would be at bestbuy, so it was a good price. It has a USB cable to transfer the pics to the computer, but he told me to use the Camera card. I had taken my laptop with me to see if it inserted okay, as my old 2005 card does not fit the 2016 computer. He told me not to bother hooking Wifi up as it’s tempermental. So I got a brief overview, most of which I won’t remember. I’m not even going to use it until I read over all the stuff. It’s a big larger than I thought, but not as big as a Cannon Rebel. It’s a Panasonic Lumix ZS60. I have enough fall pics to do a WW blog next week, and after those two mammoth book reviews I need a bit of a break from the blog anyway. My book reviews never seem to attract many readers (although my regular REaders seem to enjoy them) and I suspect WP rates anything tagged as a book review differently on their algorithm thing. I’m off to get groceries. My welts are better – I hope it stays that way. I’m trying to stay covered up but not get too hot. Most of our leaves are down now due to the wind.
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That is great news Joni – I am glad you got a deal on it … even better. When I got my Canon Rebel in 2018, I bought it at Best Buy when they had a Father’s Day special, so it was quite a deal too. I had to buy a separate camera card too as it did not come with it. It came with a battery, but the girl I had (very helpful as I was in new territory with this DSLR camera) gave me suggestions, among them to get an extra battery and rotate them. I do that with the digital compact. I take so many photos with the small camera that I’m on my third set of batteries since 2015. The salesgirl suggested a 64 GB camera card so that I would have lots of room (like you) but also to accommodate shooting video, something I’ve never tried. The camera case came with it as it was considered a “kit” so camera body, 50 mm lens and the 75-300mm long lens, charger and strap. I wanted a “EOS T6 Rebel for Dummies” book and she said “just read the directions and you’ll be fine” so I ordered it from Amazon. It was too technical for me so I found a tutorial on YouTube on how to unbox and understand the camera and learned a lot from that. I’ll bet you can find a tutorial if you haven’t already read the manual. I use the card reader and leave it in the computer all the time and it is on the old laptop in my room. The laptop was bought in 2009, so likely there is likely lint in the USB port, so I keep a napkin over the Card Reader at all times so no dust gets in there. I have not used the wireless gateway either – read the directions, looked confusing to me and it is just as quick to turn the laptop on and get the pictures that way. As of now, I still have not learned how to use the camera manually. I use it only on automatic. I did the same with my 35 mm camera, even though I took classes on how to use it manually. I don’t have time to mess with settings if I am taking a critter picture – landscape yes. I will learn when I have more time and won’t lose shots. You are going to have fun with it. As to your welts – sigh. I heard that it will be warm again next week, beginning the 1st of November for two weeks. I’m in no hurry for Winter to arrive.
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I read over the basic manual briefly this afternoon and checked out all the function keys but that’s all I’ve done…..and made a list of questions. It comes with a square lithium battery, not AA rechargeables like my old digital? Is that what your Rebel takes or your digital? You charge it with an AC adapter or a USB cable to the computer. Does your Rebel come with chargeable AA batteries? I’ve held a Rebel before when they were about $500 but now I see them in the Shoppers flyer for $900, and found it big and heavy. This Panasonic/Lumix is more compact, but still a fair weight. I bought it for the 30X zoom and the viewfinder, didn’t really care about the other features, of which there are too many to check out for an amateur like me. Have two new clusters of welts today, but I walked (a short walk) and it was warm again. Yesterday when I was bringing the groceries in I saw a no-see-um enter with me – I clapped my hands trying to kill it but it escaped, so I know it’s in here somewhere causing me misery. I restarted the Reactin tonight so I could sleep plus have been spraying lavender spray all around. I hate to pray for cooler weather, but I was good the days it was cold and miserable out.
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Sorry I didn’t respond last night Joni – Saturday was a disjointed day with heavy fog til almost mid-day and I decided to run the car in the garage and come in and do Monday’s post and catch up in Reader. Went outside to do this and it was gorgeous, so went to Council Point Park, did five miles and stayed out til 5:00 – something I don’t ever do and today have a lot of leaves to rake later (none of them mine), so feel a bit overwhelmed right now dealing with what I need to get done outside/inside/online for WP – yikes. I took off Thursday as we had zero work, so I could deal with errands, two grocery shoppings, to free up my weekend By the time I sat down Saturday night, read the news, did some e-mails then got to WordPress, I was getting tired, so went to bed knowing I could come here this a.m. as we have heavy fog once again til mid-day.
I did the same as you with the Rebel, taking a spiral notebook to write down basic stuff, my own cheat sheet, but I still wish I had gone onto YouTube and looked at a how-to video … I just went on there for you, but not sure what exact model number. Look for “camera name/model unboxing video/basic tutorial – one was 0.30 minutes long that I saw if it is your model). Anyway, I should have done that at the beginning as, after reading everything and being a bit overwhelmed with it, I found an “unboxing video/tutorial” which was great. It showed everything, nothing fancy, just examining everything in the box, what to do with it. Like you, I never set up the wireless connection for sending pics as you have to turn on the computer to do that. Some people leave their computers in “sleep mode” so they are on all the time, but I don’t do that. I have to reboot it each time.
My Rebel has the square Lithium battery and so does the digital compact, a much smaller Lithium battery. My first digital camera with the 4X Zoom had batteries that you had to replace. I don’t think they were rechargeable and I didn’t have a device to charge them. I like that you have a 30X zoom feature – that is great. And a regular viewfinder. The compact digital is point and shoot which is sometimes an issue on a sunny day as I see my face and eyeglasses so have to shade the camera with my other hand. Do you have settings you can adjust for different types of images you are taking, like 1) landscape; 2) flowers; 3) food and/or 4) sports? I really only use the sports setting because it is an action setting, so that if I see a flock of seagulls or a group of egrets and I think they may take flight or are flying and preparing to land, I just twist the knob from “automatic” to “sports setting” to capture the motion. I also use it if the water is wavy or splashing up against rocks to capture the droplets in mid-air. That is about as fancy as I dare to get. I just want to use the basics now – will worry about learning more when I have more time (whenever that might be). It will be a gorgeous day today if you can get out later. Even if the leaves are down, there would be colorful mums, scarecrows in the neighborhood to try … use them later not necessarily for Halloween, more for harvest. Good luck!
As to the welts, it is supposed to be warm and nice here Tuesday thru Thursday. Then rain and a little cooler. Hopefully that helps a bit then. I had a wasp in the house a few weeks ago – I thought of you. I saw it in the car, thought I shooed it out and could not see it inside the car, so put the car in the garage. Evidently it got onto my clothes or in my hair and I brought it inside. No words. I flipped it into an empty oatmeal box and took it outside (really … did I think it would “eat through the oatmeal box” – I was happy it did not land on me and hoped it was neither pregnant and laid eggs or had a friend.
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Thanks Linda…..but I’m confused. When you said you take extra batteries with you, is that for your digital or for the Rebel? He never said anything to me about buying extra backup batteries? Answer when you can and enjoy your day! It’s cloudy here so I may just take pics of Halloween decorations in the neighbourhood.
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Hi Joni – I had to finish up my post and almost ready to transfer it from Word and put in all the pics … then go out and rake leaves which will take hours. I bought the compact digital in 2015, the DSLR in 2018. Both salespersons (Best Buy both times) suggested getting an extra lithium battery. So I got one for each camera. I think they were each about $35.00 for the small; $40.00 for the large. But it is nice to know that if you take a ton of photos (I take a lot of pictures, often snapping a duplicate if I think it will be a good shot, in case I moved) and it is a gray day where the flash may keep going off automatically, that I still have battery power, especially in cold weather. I am on my third set of batteries for the digital compact but the same batteries for the DSLR. Partly of this is because I take photos in the Winter on the small, but rarely on the large camera which drains the battery as well. I buy new batteries every two years – got two new ones last year, but not even charged them yet … these seem to still be good as I’ve used the big camera more. It is not necessary at all though. I use the small camera more as I strap it on my fanny pack or in my pocket when I wear a coat for daily walks, but last week and for my Halloween and an upcoming Harvest Decor and Leaves in the Hood post, it was easier so I just took the small camera. I don’t take them both together. It is cloudy here too. Have to get out by 4:00 to rake leaves – wish it was not raining tomorrow as I’d rather do that in lieu of a walk tomorrow a.m. Enjoy your walk with the new camera!
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Also, which camera do you use more often? Do you take both with you?
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I actually use the small camera more Joni – it is small and handier and with 12X zoom it is good for the Park. I only took the big one to the Park a couple of times to get gosling shots. I took a lot of photos yesterday – used the small one as I was taking squirrel shots … I can bend down close to them that way. You said your camera is lightweight which will be nice for Summer too.
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I think it is complaining that winter is coming! I never knew the name of these seagulls.
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I think so too Diane … we’ve had such a beautiful Fall (except for those few days last week with the snow flurries and rain). The seagull knows what’s coming. I don’t see that many juvenile seagulls walking around, but they are cute with their spots. We have these seagulls mostly – another type with dark heads I’ve seen as well, but rarely.
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🤣😂🤣😂🤣 Thanks for the smiles today!
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The first thing that came to mind when I saw the first photo was the movie ‘The Birds’. I guess because I remember the seagulls taking an important part in the film. Nonetheless, he/she is cute.
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It was pretty remarkable how they made that movie back then as they had none of the technology used today, yet it was a very realistic and scary scene. I think he/she was yawning – such a big yawn for a young bird. They do open their mouths to screech as they fly overhead, but not usually this much. I like their antics and how they squabble with one another over seemingly nothing.
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Perhaps that little seagull was warning his buddies a human was approaching–beware!! (This thought came to mind because I’m sitting on our deck right now, and a half-dozen squirrels just went CRAZY with chatter. I’ve been out here for almost two hours, so don’t think it was human activity that set them off. But maybe they spotted a fox in the trees?!)
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That seagull was kind of cute with its spots and being on the trail, on the ground, but not near any water, made me think it was hurt. But after its “scream” or “yawn” and a few photos, it just walked away. Interesting squirrel behavior Nancy – I’ll bet those squirrels saw something, even a cat, that might climb a tree and terrorize them. The squirrels, when agitated, send out these alarm calls. They sound like a cat crying or screeching. The first time I heard it at the Park, I looked everywhere to see where the noise was coming from and then I saw a squirrel crouched on a tree making this loud “cry” for lack of a better description.
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There are a couple of cats that roam the neighborhood here. You could very well be right!
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Nancy, I think the squirrels may meet their match when it comes to cats as they can climb up and threaten squirrels … but, on the other hand, squirrels can come back down the tree, even headfirst, where cats sometimes climb up too far and need to be rescued. Then, I’ll bet squirrels sit back on their haunches and laugh at those “scaredy-cats”. 🙂
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We all need a little Scream Therapy now and then Wish I could scream like a gull. LOL!
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Me too Ruth!
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Gulls are such great screamers. They probably have no stress at all.
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I agree Janis – what do they know about stress? Catch a fish, beg fishermen to throw them food, cruise around in the clouds, a totally stress-free existence. Seagulls can be divas sometimes. 🙂
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hahahahah, the title is a hoot!!
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I got to see the seagull’s tonsils with its mouth open this wide! It made me laugh and I hoped I got this yawn/scream captured and was happy when going through the pics and saw that I did. I like having some fun with the titles. 🙂
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It’s the best when you find those photo gems!
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Thanks Esther – this seagull did crack me up! I was taking a picture of it and it suddenly yawned … that was a huge yawn. I asked it “am I boring you?”
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Nah, you weren’t boring it. It was just doing a candid post for you. lol
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I like your thinking Esther. 🙂 It said “I hear you take a lot of squirrel pictures – I’ll impress you more.”
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It’s going to be a mighty small fish to fit in that mouth!
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I think this seagull will have to set its sights on a minnow JP. A fellow blogger one time got a video of a heron swallowing a fish whole. Long beak, but didn’t stab it first, so the fish was thrashing its way down that long throat. It was macabre looking to watch.
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