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 
Amazing photography. Very nice photos. Beautiful place. I like. I hope it’s lake .
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Thank you rajkkhoja – I am glad you like the photos. This is actually a small park (Bishop Park) and the boardwalk is along the Detroit River. It’s not a very long walk for me, so I usually just go to take photos of the seagulls.
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Most welcome, Linda 👍
Beautiful Bishop park it’s boardwalk. Nice capture picture.
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Thank you and in Winter it is one of two beautiful venues that are just a few miles apart along the Detroit River. The River freezes over and there are ice floes with waterfowl on them. Very nice to see – it helps make Winter tolerable to see these nice sights.
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Love the (rear) end shot! 🤭
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Glad to give you a smile Barbara. I added that as a last-minute thought. That seagull looked like it was doing the Hokey Pokey, especially with its right foot, back and forth, shaking it. I got to the mooning photo and it was shaking its left foot, so I added it to the series and another part to the title. I know as a person who appreciates seeing and photographing seagulls, you’d like Sam’s moves/moon.
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Like all gulls, Sam has a unique personality. They can be such characters!
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Yes they are Barbara. Sam eluded me for a long time yet most gulls are not as skittish as herons or egrets and politely stay put and don’t take off.
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Ha! Love the “moon shot”.
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Glad you liked it Laurie. I thought I’d give people a smile today. 🙂
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I think Seagulls are highly underrated ! lol I like them, unless they are being really annoying, like around food haha
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I feel the same way Susan. I had a whole series of Wordless Wednesday posts that I tagged “Seagull Shenanigans” … just some fun shots with their often deadpan faces staring at me, or gobbling up treats that people throw them. They stand still so it’s easy to take pictures of them … my kind of bird!
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I love seagulls, Linda! He is doing the two-step! Hearing gulls at the beaches of San Diego when I grew up there is a fond memory. When I was in my teens and we’d go camping in Tuolumne Meadows near Tioga Pass in Yosemite, I learned (1970s) that the California seagulls were threatened. Los Angeles District of Water and Power diverted water from Mono Lake. The diversion exposed land bridges to the two islands in the middle of the lake allowing predators to eat the eggs from the nesting grounds of the gulls. “Save Mono Lake” was a slogan and cause I was familiar with and the organization convinced the legislature to turn it into a national monument. It has recovered but still is threatened due to droughts and climate change but at least the seagulls are in decent shape!
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That’s an amazing story Terri because seagulls are not a bird you’d normally think of as facing possible extinction. I wonder why people didn’t pay attention and offer a “fix” earlier. I was surprised in Googling to find the weight of a Great Egret the other day that they faced a similar plight and have now returned in numbers like before. Seagulls are great for me to photograph as they walk slow and stay in one place and don’t grumble about me taking a ton of shots!
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He’s missing his partner for the “dip” in that last image!
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That’s right Eilene. He had a few good moves and I decided to stick that last photo in to give everyone a smile.
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I don’t know how you come up with your titles Linda, but they are always perfect!
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Thanks Diane! I have had a lot of fun making titles to go with the posts, especially the birds every Wednesday. I have done a bird post every Wednesday for four months. I just did the last two bird posts for 2022 for Wordless Wednesday and they are funny (if I say so myself). 🙂
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The birds seem to perform for you!
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I’m having a lot of fun with all these birds this year Diane. 🙂
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Great title and great photos! You captured his dance moves well!
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Thanks Shelley! I originally was going to call this post “How to Stalk a Seagull” (silly bird kept walking away from me as I was in pursuit). When I took a closer look at the photos, it looked like he had his right foot stuck out, then shaking it, then moving it back. Then the left foot … no way! Yes way! So I thought I’d throw the Hokey Pokey into the title for kicks. 🙂
I just did a couple of Wordless Wednesday bird posts for the rest of the year and put some funny titles for them – hope you will get a smile from them.
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Aw, I love hearing the background on how you came up with the title.
I look forward to seeing them for sure!!
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Good title Linda – it does look like the hokey-pokey!
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Thanks Joni – especially the first few pictures with its right foot. I didn’t notice it so much while watching that gull as when the photos were up on the screen. (P.S. – I wonder if a few readers wondered what the hokey-pokey was?)
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Yes, possibly younger ones wouldn’t know….
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They probably don’t dance the hokey-pokey at weddings anymore. Nor Hava Nagila. I’d probably fall flat on my face if I tried to do that now … it’s been years since I’ve been to a wedding. Also, when I was in Greece, we went into town a few nights and they played Greek music and always the bank would get the crowd up and dancing Hava Nagila … it was a lot of fun. I came home with some Greek tapes that I played on 8-track player … drove my parents crazy.
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He really is busting a move, Linda! Fun title too.
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Yes he is Janis. I have had some fun with all these bird photos I collected over the Summer and Fall and trying to create a creative title for my Wordless Wednesday posts. I figure some people never heard of the hokey pokey, so I likely dated myself.
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They don’t know what the hokey pokey is? But, that’s what it’s all about!
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You got that right Janis!
(Heard about the bad earthquake on the news. I sure hope Mother Nature is done stomping her foot out there!)
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His moves are fabulous! The legwork is precise. I once learned in a book that ballet used to be called “leg drama.”
Once again, your title cracks me up. How do you do it?!
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Esther, I originally intended to call the post “How to Stalk a Seagull” – too bad I didn’t have him on video as he strutted up and down the boardwalk railing with me behind him trying to get some shots, but when I looked up close, I could see some definite Hokey-Pokey moves going on. 🙂
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Lol. These animals know they will be talked about on your blog, so they strut their stuff. 🙂
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I do believe you’re right Esther!!
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Now that you have caught a gull doing the hokey pokey, maybe you can find a chicken doing the chicken dance. It would be proof that chickens have weddings too.
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I’ll be on the lookout for that chicken JP – in the meantime, I’m going to recruit you to help with some of my blog post titles! P.S. Those chickens I saw back in the Fall were only interested in scratching, no fancy moves at all.
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