First, before I begin to weave my tale about a Sunday stroll at Lake Erie Metropark on July 3rd, it is already the first post of the new month … time to debut the February 2023 calendar page as evidenced above. The locale is Lake Gosauseea, Austria.
Do you agree with this quotation?
As to my unusual blog post title, it was the Fourth of July weekend and I’d received some e-mails and Tweets about the festivities and fireworks extravaganza at my favorite Metropark, starting at 6:00 p.m. on July 3rd. While the miscellaneous and sundry feathered and furry critters at this venue might appreciate any scraps of food that might be left behind, (since all the Metroparks strictly forbid feeding any wildlife), I knew if I wanted to see any critters, I’d best go today because the 10:00 p.m. boomers that night likely would spook every Park critter and they would be no-shows the following morning. I know people use Council Point Park’s parking lot to set off fireworks as evidenced by black powder stains and empty firecracker boxes in the garbage cans on July 5th and I never see any critters the morning after.
On the heels of my trio of Metroparks extravaganza the day before, (Saturday, July 2nd), I decided to visit Lake Erie Metropark. The weather folks had already predicted another hot-and-sticky day. Ugh! And, since I didn’t want slick or greasy substances on my face or fingers while handling the camera, once again, it was extra sun protection by layering up.
The Metroparks website for this venue touts it as“some of the best birding in Southeast Michigan” and little did I know it would live up to its reputation today (or for the rest of 2022 as well). It was a fun day because I got up-close shots of those pretty Barn Swallows and the Osprey home renovation. So, I guess the Metroparks website didn’t lie since later that Summer I would be lucky to see the Sandhill Cranes and a Pied-billed Grebe.
I began, as I usually do, strolling along the three-mile rocky shoreline at Cove Point at the south end of the park. Sometimes that paved pathway is good for a glimpse of a Great Lakes freighter, or the occasional heron perched on one of the many boulders that jut out into Lake Erie.
Checking out the Lotus beds.
I also wanted to check on the progress of the Lotuses. This park is home to the largest and most-accessible American Water Lotus beds in the State of Michigan. While they were “gettin’ there” as you will see below, they usually do not reach their full beauty until late August. But, because we had such a hot and steamy Summer, I returned July 31st and discovered most of the Lotuses were in full bloom. I took a lot of photos of them which will be the topic for an upcoming post.
There are Lotus beds scattered throughout the marshy areas in the park, but the renowned Lotus beds are five acres and two acres, found at Cove Point and the Cherry Island Marsh Trail, respectively.
Here are several views of the largest Lotus bed at Cove Point.
I stood at the wooden overlook scoping out Great Egrets who like to hang out in this little cove-like area. There were no waterfowl here and zero water reflections as the water had a green sheen of algae on it. However, I was lucky to get one shot of a heron wading around in the green goo …
… plus some shots of the Barn Swallows which swoop and dive incessantly, so when a few of them alighted on a branch, seemingly oblivious to me, I was ecstatic. Clicking away as I kept inching closer and expecting them to flee en masse any minute, I can only assume, the heat and their aerial acrobatics made them ready for a rest – my luck. Here is a pair of the Barn Swallows; the rest of them were in this post last year in case you missed it.
I took a few photos of the green goo, but decided to concentrate on less-icky photos, so I focused on cattails, (or maybe you call them bulrushes), along the marshy banks.
The Cherry Island Marsh Trail.
Unbelievably the 1.5 mile/2.4 kilometer Cherry Island Marsh Trail was not soggy, so I was able to walk the entire trail without emerging with mud-stained shoe soles.
It looked like these Mallards found some clear water along the shoreline.
There was some damage to the trees – an over-achieving beetle or wind damage? It didn’t look like a beaver’s handiwork.
These are pond lilies but the tiny green leaves are European Frog-bit, an invasive aquatic plant found throughout the marsh.
Mr. and Mrs. Red-winged Blackbird greeted me in the “Important Bird Area”.
The Lotus leaves were getting big, but no blooms yet. I stopped to take photos at this two-acre Lotus bed along the Cherry Island Marsh Trail.
Across the marsh, still more Lotuses were in the lagoon area near the boathouse.
The marsh areas along this trail were oozing with gooey green slime and in some cases there was no clear area in the entire lagoon.
Wildflowers were popping up everywhere.
There were a few pretty wildflowers here and there, with pops of color from Wild Iris to Wild Phlox and a few others that I did not find in the wildflower book I bought – all of them helped make my trek colorful.
I hoped to see that pretty pregnant doe that gazed at me so intently on my last trip here, June 18th. It would have been wonderful to see her with a fawn or two trailing behind her, but no such luck.
I had the entire park to myself that morning, save for one fellow stroller who, like me, ambled along the Cherry Island Marsh Trail taking in the scenery. That Sunday morning stroller will be revealed in this week’s Wordless Wednesday post since getting one’s extra steps deserves a few accolades don’t you think?
As I headed to the car, I saw an Osprey silently gliding overhead …
… then decided to visit the Brownstown Fire Station located on the fringe of Lake Erie Metropark to check out the Osprey nest. There I saw some serious nest renovation happening. I took a lot of photos of that unusual nest location and shared them in this post in case you missed it.
I’m going to take a small break from large park recaps since next week I’ll do a post to celebrate my 10-year Blogiversary and then I’ll help you think warm thoughts with a bloomin’ good time I had back on July 31st at the Emily Frank Gardens. I’ll return to posting about those Summer jaunts at my favorite haunts once again on February 27th, with a stop at the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge.
Linda Schaub
WALKIN', WRITIN', WIT & WHIMSY 
A wonderful post Linda, so nice to see photos of green grass and warm sunny days. I went by someone mowing their lawn yesterday. Nothing like the smell of fresh mowed grass. 🙂
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Thank you Sandra – wait til you see my fellow walker on Wednesday. Not the greatest pic but it will give you a smile. Everything looks so lush and the wildflowers were popping out everywhere. Sigh. It’s a while yet for us. We are going to 50 degrees tomorrow. At that rate, people here will be itching to get mowing as well.
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I enjoy your photographs of the bulrushes.
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Thank you Anne.
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Nice to see all the green – winter seems to take the joy out of a person with its mud and drab landscapes. Love your photos and the wildlife you captured.
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Thank you Peggy – glad you liked them. I held back one critter for Wednesday which hopefully will give you a smile. I know what you mean about the drab landscapes. It was brutal Saturday, 40 degrees higher Sunday and now we have freezing rain two nights this week, which will mess up everything again. All the green seems like eons ago, doesn’t it?
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Yes, the green in nature is only a fading memory. Winter seems twice as long as it should be.
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Yes, too long ago Peggy. Our Winter has been one of ups and downs. Now we are back to 40s and 50s which is not normal for us in Wintertime.
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Nice pictures of the barn swallows! You were very lucky that they stayed still long enough to get a picture. I never heard of European Frog-bit before, I wonder if we have it here. Everything looks so lush and green, how different to what we see outside right now. Pretty wildflower collection, too. Summer memories…
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Summer memories are the best, aren’t they Barbara? I was not sure if that one pink flower was a beach rose? I bought that wildflower book and am determined I will ID those plants this year. Glad you liked the barn swallows. That was a lucky day for me, between the swallows and osprey. And the fellow walker I encountered whom you will meet Wednesday. They’re not stellar pics, but funny ones. I was quite a distance away and it saw me and got a bit spooked and took off.. I took a guided tour several years ago to see all the invasive species around this park. The hike took us through the marshy and woodsy areas. Frogbit is everywhere and at a glance you would think it is the “green goo” – it looks like very tiny pond lilies.
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It sure looks like a beach rose to me, even the leaves are the right shape. Were there a lot of them? Sometimes the bushes can grow quite large, other times they straggle along close to the ground.
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There were a lot of these flowers Barbara. I had saved a screenshot of one of your beach rose pics and I thought the flowers looked the same too. This bush was quite large.
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Since the bush is large you might find a song sparrow using it for a home base one of these days. 🙂
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It seems to me I took two sets of potential beach roses and I believe the others were at Humbug Marsh, which venue I read (and told you) they had lots of them and the ranger said she didn’t know anything about any beach roses. Hmm. Next time I will peer underneath. 🙂
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If you’re lucky the song sparrow will come out and perch on top of the bush and sing. 🙂
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I would love to see that Barbara – I never see song sparrows except in your photos – we have an abundance of house sparrows a/k/a “brown bombers” around these parts. I know we have a white-throated sparrow as well. Maybe I am looking in the wrong places? We also have an abundance of dark-eyed juncos which Jocelyn Anderson has been featuring of late. They are really pretty, especially when they appear next to the snow.
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You’re lucky! I haven’t seen a dark-eyed junco in a long time, probably not since I stopped putting out birdfeeders several years ago.
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I never saw them until last year and this year there are many more of them and they flock together, land in the tree and then see seeds and all flock down at the same time. I think they are beautiful.
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Yes, I agree with the quotation. It’s fitting for sure. And you made me wonder…what’s the difference between Water Lilies and the Lotus. I learned something new. Now, I’m trying to remember if we see any Lotus here where I live, I know we have the Water Lilies. I so enjoyed all of your photos – they warmed my chilly thoughts…it’ll be hot again soon, Linda, and we’ll be complaining about the heat.
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Yes that quotation is spot on for sure Shelley. I don’t know if I had even heard of Water Lotuses before visiting this park. I thought Lotuses were a delicate plant that only grew in a hothouse. I was wrong. The Pond Lilies sit right on broad, rounded leaves on the surface of the water, while the Water Lotuses also have leaves, much bigger though – they are as big as a dinner plate and maybe an elephant’s ear as the saying goes. The Water Lotuses rise out of the plant into the air instead of sitting down on the leaves. They can be three or four feet tall. They are huge. I will have an upcoming post about the Water Lotuses. They are usually at peak in mid-August, but I was there on July 31st and many had already bloomed. Also Pond Lilies are not protected/threatened species and Water Lotuses are, so it is illegal to pick them or even take an empty pods after the blooms are gone. They die off and stick out of the water like periscopes in Fall/Winter.
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Thanks for the sneak peek on your future post, I look forward to reading more and seeing more photos you took!
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Well, I at least have sorted out the Lotus pictures so maybe by March they will make their debut. 🙂 I hope everyone thinks my critter post this Wednesday is as funny as I perceived it.
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Yay! I’m sure we will 😍
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Nothing like summer photos on a cold winter day! Great shots.
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Thanks Kate – they are sure to warm you up and remind you that once it was green and lush out there, not gray and blah.
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And hot and buggy and humid….
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We’ll be whining about and forget the Winter up-and-down temps we’re enduring right now. We have selective memories I think. 🙂
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The cattails remind me of those corn dogs on-a-stick you can buy at carnivals. Interesting coincidence with your mention of the lotus beds. I just read a powerful commentary about society trends (away from reality, towards entertainment) and the writer used the term “lotus-eater”. It means, “a person who spends their time indulging in pleasure and luxury rather than dealing with practical concerns.” Why the lotus was chosen for that phrase still puzzles me.
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Yes, they do look like corn dogs on-a-stick don’t they? We have several outdoor events in our City and there are multiple food trucks in place. There is one vendor that has a retro-looking food truck that looks like a carnival midway where all the usual fare can be found. I’ve seen photos of the events on the City site and there are long lines for corn dogs, elephant ears, cotton candy and fried ice cream – typical fair fare. That’s interesting that the writer would use “lotus eater” isn’t it, a Lotus being something you associate with having no purpose beyond being a thing of beauty to be admired. I guess that terminology goes along with less loyalty on the job and quiet quitting.
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I do not think that bent over tree was a beaver Linda as I do not see any bite marks and the shot above of the denuded bark looks like a dead tree decaying.
You have a good eye to pick up on all these anomalies.
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Thank you Wayne – my head is constantly swirling around while I am walking, looking for photo ops. Also, thanks for clarifying about the tree – I wasn’t sure about that tree and after that interesting denuded tree with the squiggles and doodles that I marveled at, only to learn it was bugs under the bark, I didn’t want to hazard a guess.
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being mindful as well as watchful is a perquisite to being a wildlife photographer
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I have learned a lot along the way, just by osmosis Wayne, always making sure I take it all in. That is why I prefer to walk alone as I am able to observe much better.
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it’s all incremental and accumulative
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There is a lot for us to learn and we should never stop thirsting for more knowledge. A.B.C. = Always Be Curious.
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that works……..as long as your not a cat
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Yes, bad for cats. 🙂 Although they have nine lives.
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every cat should have 9 strips along it’s tail and when It loses a life,a stripe disappears.
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They would be more careful that way!
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What a wonderful post Linda, So Lovely to see photos of green grass an warm days.
Excellent picture of the barn Swallows! You are so lucky to stayed long enough to get picture
Pretty wildlife collection too, summer memories! I love the nature & birds.
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Glad you liked this post rajkkhoja. I know what you mean about seeing lots of green right now. It is a real treat after looking at our blah landscape now for the last three plus months. I am counting the days until it looks like this again here in SE Michigan.
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You are most welcome, Linda 👍
You are absolutely really right what I about sen green. Iam so happy too🤠❤️
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rajkkhoja – Once April arrives, we go from blah to beautiful. One day you step outside and all the tree leaves have unfurled and it looks totally different from a mere 24 hours before.
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Thank you so much!
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You certainly have some beautiful places to get your miles in! I am loving these summer recap stories. Beautiful yellow iris. I don’t think I have ever seen those before.
I heard (then saw) a male red-winged blackbird this week. He was calling from a marshy area near my house. It was cold over the weekend but supposed to get up to 50 degrees today. Spring can’t be too far away, right?
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Yes, I am lucky to have all these beautiful venues Laurie. This park has so many things to see, from the rocky shoreline to the rustic trails and the marshes. I have never seen wild iris before … I even went off the trail to get a close-up look to verify it was iris. Oh, that warms my heart knowing the red-winged blackbirds are back for you – they should not be long arriving here either – we will have 50 degrees tomorrow!
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It was fun to look at your beautiful photos of a much warmer time.
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Glad you liked them Anne – I am hearing that we are in a milder spell after the second bout of brutal weather we had recently – 50 tomorrow! So, hopefully that means we’ll green up earlier too!
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We’re going to be fairly warm tomorrow, too. Maybe high fifties.
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Our weather is so bizarre Anne. I would not be surprised if some of the early Spring flowers start pushing up like your tulips are. I always see the same Snowdrops pushing through the ground at a homeowner’s front yard every year in early March. They are under a tree near the City sidewalk, so I can’t miss them. I figure Spring has arrived when I see them, even if it is not the calendar date of Spring.
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I knew where to look for snowdrops in NY, but I don’t remember where I’ve seen them here. They are favorites of mine.
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They are hardy as they come up every year, often so early that they are covered with snow, but seem to spring back into shape once it melts.
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Amazing plants!
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Yes, they are. The former neighbors across the street had tulips in the front and side gardens, planted many decades before, when they first bought the house. Theirs was the first house built on the block and no others were built for a long time. They both passed away and in 2010. the kids put the house up for sale. The new owner plowed all her perennials gardens up – front/side/back. But a few tulips survived in the corner near the porch and every Spring they come up. Their kids are older than me so those tulips must be very hardy!
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I enjoyed this trek along the marsh – wonderful photos. # 7 of your wildflower photos looks like a wild rose. If you come across then again give them a sniff, they usually have a lovely fragrance. #9 looks like purple loosestrife. I think it’s beautiful, but it known as an invasive plant.
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Glad you liked the trek and photos Ruth. A fellow blogger in Connecticut writes about woodsy walks and shoreline walks in Connecticut. She shows a bloom sometimes called “Beach Rose” and I’m wondering if that is similar to this one. I will indeed give it “sniff” next time I see it – thanks for the heads up! I also think the purple loosestrife is pretty.
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Oh, and yes, I believe the quote is true.
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Glad you liked it Ruth. After two months, I noticed the calendar tells where the photo was taken.
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I love the Thich Nhat Hanh book “No Mud No Lotus”. Thanks for lots of great pictures!
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Glad you liked the pictures gjef2871. I will have another post of the Lotuses when they bloomed (that post will be sometime in March).. Lucky for me, I went before “peak time” and still got to see them in all their beauty. And thank YOU for sharing that book title “No Mud No Lotus” and the concept. I just Googled and yes, that is very true.
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Hi Linda
I like that osprey and all the nature photos with the green and July beauty was nice on a chilly and bland day
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And your ten year blog anniversary sounds exciting
And that reminds me of the mini interview we need to do!
I will send you the questions this week
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Hi Yvette – I was glad that I saw the osprey overhead and it reminded me to go to the fire station on the fringe of this park to check out the osprey nest they build inside the siren (poor planning on their part).
I have been meaning to tell you this and you were on the blogging break and thus I forgot, but I finally made it to the beach three times in October. I told you every time you posted beachy scenes I would get there one day and I did. So my current posts are from July walks … by the time I make it to October pics, it will be October again. But I got some pics of the waves- apparently people surf at this beach which amazed me. Surfing in Michigan?! When I acknowledged your e-mail with the interview questions, I forgot to mention that my blogiversary post will be my 1,800th post. I knew that stat months ago by counting ahead, so I was pretty excited for that “round number” to cap off a decade of blogging!
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wow – you are so organized and I love how you calculated ahead to see what the post number will be.
and linda – I am so glad you were able to make it to the beach – and three times.
I look forward to the photos – even if they are shared next fall!
and on a side note – tonight I just posted some photos from a year ago – and I think that is another thing I like about blogging – we do not have to post in real time – we can go at our pace.
:P)
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I looked in the Fall and calculated ahead at two posts a week as I usually do and it would take me to 1,800 posts. I even had room for one extra which I did at Christmastime. So that’s pretty fun to do that. I kept putting the beach trip off, (a 60-mile round trip), then made it there on October 1st and we were having very warm weather. I saw a couple on the beach with a baby, dipping its toes in the water … highly unusual weather for us at that time. Then I went back later that month, two days in a row. I always write a draft narrative the night I go on a long walk so I don’t forget details. So, after I was looking online for the name of the long trail around the entire park, I discovered info about a walk you could take along the rocks at Lake Erie, a narrow but scenic pathway, so I returned the next day. That is where I met the doe on a path near the edge of a rocky cliff at Lake Erie. She was terrified of me and didn’t know where to run and there was no fence right here and I was worried she’d run past me and knock me off the path. Yes, you have a point about posts can be evergreen – it does make sense. I’m following a blogger who is similarly writing about their RV adventures last Summer and Fall – they go away, weeks at a time, canoeing and enjoying outdoors and they are both great photographers.
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you are so smart to be careful with the deer knocking you over – that could be really dangerous
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Yes, especially since it was really scared and throwing itself against a fence since it couldn’t escape. It tried climbing down the rocks – I was worried it would break a leg or its neck.
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wow –
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Ps
Got this in my email
“California ground squirrels will chew on the shed skin of rattlesnakes and then lick themselves and their offspring. This makes the rodents smell like poisonous snakes to fool predators.”
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That is an amazing fact Yvette – thank you for sharing it. Animals and birds are amazing and so many people do not credit them for their intelligence and resourcefulness, especially when it comes to taking care of their offspring. I just told a fellow blogger the other day that a Red-winged Blackbird was dive-bombing me and acting aggressively one morning when I was walking at Council Point Park. These birds, just like Jays and Cardinals, eat the peanuts I put down for the squirrels. I thought it was getting my attention because it wanted a peanut. But instead, it saw me nearing a dead baby bird, one of its brood I suspect. It did not want me walking past/near it. I walked quickly past the bird veering away from the path and onto the grass. Soon another walker caught up with me and said the bird had done the same thing to him, his first time around the path. Devotion to their offspring, even in death, really touched me.
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Linda, that is an amazing story and the fierceness of that protective mode is admirable.
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I thought you would enjoy that story Yvette. Animals are just as devoted to their young as humans.
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🙂
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Those lotus patches are very impressive, and the cat-tail pictures are so clear. So nice to see greenery, even if it is marshy!
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They are huge beds Joni. I went and took photos on July 31st and met a couple who told me they walk there every day and they had already been blooming for a week due to all the heat and humidity. They usually bloom later in August. I’ve got the photos sorted, so it will be a post in March sometime. It is nice to see green. Our snow has mostly melted due to the warmer temps and the rain. We are having more rain tomorrow night, maybe freezing rain.
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I do like the Barn Swallows, they are quite pretty. The green sludge is quite something, we have that in our local river too, it’s a wonder anyone can see anything in it ! We watch Green Herons catch their fish and I don’t know how they see them. We are getting rain here too and I hope it doesn’t turn to freezing rain, still -4 Celsius or maybe a bit colder.
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I was lucky with these Barn Swallows – usually they never perch, just fly incessantly around the marsh, occasionally darting under the overlook where they probably have their nests. I have seen only one Green Heron, at a small marina where I used to walk sometimes. First and last time I’ve seen one and took a photo and sent it to the DNR to I.D. it – its neck was pulled in, so I would not have guessed it was in the heron family. That green sludge is awful sometimes but bad then as we’d not had rain in a while and it had been very hot. We had a little freezing rain this morning and will have it again Thursday morning. I’m hoping it doesn’t mess up walking as we just got things looking good.
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I know right? crazy weather, today is like spring but tomorrow we are supposed to get 20 mm rain and freezing rain. Yuck !
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We had a gorgeous day today and I walked five miles and hated to come back home. The Park where I walk daily had not plowed the path and it was a mess of snow and ice, so I walked in the snow the last two weeks. It has finally all melted – now like you, we’ll get freezing tomorrow early if it dips down low enough. Even more worrisome is the high wind advisory to 60 mph … with that dead tree, I am going to worry about another tree branch coming down and falling on the wires. I’d like to fast forward 24 hours!
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Stay safe Linda! I really dislike wind, the last few years it seems we have been getting strong winds more and more often.
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I agree Susan – I never remember so many severe weather alerts in the Summer months either. It is like all weather events have been kicked up a notch! We still have a little while longer with this wind which has been raging all day and raining very hard. Every time I hear the national news it seems like another 1,000 casualties have been added to the earthquake toll.
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That is so sad, I can’t even imagine ☹️
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It is so nice to see green, nature and birds in the winter. I think it’s a great idea posting pictures from summer even if it does give me spring fever! Lol
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Yes, it is welcome to see green isn’t it? We had a gorgeous day today – it was in the 40s when I returned from walking and I hated to come home. We are having a lot of rain tomorrow morning and have a high wind advisory – now I’ll worry every windy day/nigh for that dead tree dropping another branch on the electrical wires and causing a fire. I wish I could fast forward 24 hours – the advisory runs til 10:00 p.m. and severe weather from the afternoon on. Too early for rainstorms that cause severe weather.
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Photos of days gone by. Colorful days gone by. It’s refreshing to say the least. I don’t hate on Winter but I do forget how colorful Summer was.
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I am with you Ally. We have had a few great days this week with the snow gone and the sun out which made a big difference. Today was an all-day soaking rain and gusty winds. I am more than ready to see signs of Spring and Summer, the likes of which you see here.
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I would expand the quotation up top to include all of creation.
I am used to thinking about Detroit’s Red Wings as guys with skates and hockey sticks. But I guess this kind was there first.
Dave’s comment has me hungry for a corn dog!
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Ha ha – yes, lots of colors around here on the 4th of July JP. I have not had a corn dog in years. Every time there is a Summer event in the City, a vendor with a huge trailer comes on site. He has the truck decorated like a midway and has all kinds of carnival fare, from cotton candy to elephant ears … yes corn dogs too.
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