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 
Hmmmmm… good question!
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It seems like Seagulls rule most times Barbara. Today I went to the Park and there was a Seagull convention of some sort. I have seen maybe 15-20 Seagulls hovering around the Creek or actually sitting/floating like a duck to eat the dead shad, but there were no dead shad today. Some of the Creek was still covered in ice. There must have been 100 gulls altogether, most of them sitting in a field and the others flying about. And they all were shrieking – it was maddening to hear them (and a little disconcerting too).
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Gull distress calls can sound so unearthly…
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Yes, the piercing screech is unearthly and they were back at it again this morning Barbara. Lots of gulls and I took some photos but there were so many of them milling about or taking flight, the photos probably won’t show what I saw. I saw a raccoon this morning, so that was fun. I kept my distance and hopefully I got some good shots when it looked up at me. 🙂
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🤣😂🥰 Silly birds – way to be there at the right time to catch those shots!
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Yes, that was lucky – they flew away all at once, but not because they saw me as I was still in the parking lot and thought this will be funny if people notice the picnic shelter sign. They name the picnic shelters after various birds.
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You’re such a great roving reporter!
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This Roving Reporter got some wild pictures this morning at the Park. A raccoon was there and I got as close as I could to get a picture of it … mostly its cute little face. It was under a weeping tree or there was some brush around so it wasn’t completely clear. I took my shots and got out of there in case it got mad at me!
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Yay, that’s so fun!!! Way to go!!
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Yes – I hope the pics turn out – it was really cute (from a safe distance).
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😍
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Definitely mis-labeled. I see those seagulls.
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Those seagulls get around, that’s for sure Peggy. I was at Council Point Park this morning and there must have been 100 seagulls there, many sitting on the field, the rest swooping and diving. I’ve never seen that before and what a commotion they were making. I have no idea why – I saw no fish in the Creek for them to be carrying on like that. It was a little eerie to be honest.
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“Duck Soup” came to mind, but not “Animal Crackers” or “Monkey Business”. Take your pick, right? Now I wonder what’s going on at the Wood Chuck pavilion?
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Dave, you are the only one so far that picked up on that line being from a Marx Brothers movie. The “Viaduct, Why Not a Chicken?” was a comedy routine from “The Cocoanuts” (circa 1929). I had to Google that info. Now, to be honest, I have never seen a Marx Brothers skit or movie, but remembered hearing the line and it worked well for these photos. When I was on the college newspaper, two staffers were having a conversation about directions. One guy said “you go under a viaduct ….” The other guy said “why not a chicken?” I heard the conversation and wondered “what in the world???” So it turned out Tim and Steve both loved the Marx Brothers and had memorized dialogue verbatim from many of their movies – guess they’d be good at Trivia Night. I saw the seagulls sitting there and took that shot, then they flew the coop – a good chance to use that line. I have to check out other pavilions as they name them after Metropark critters!
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My brothers and I watched a few of the Marx Brothers’ movies but I think we were too young to appreciate some of the humor or the one-liners. Harpo was our favorite even though Groucho had the best lines. I can still picture Groucho pacing with his cigar – hilarious.
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I had a class in college for my mass communications course where we had to watch a lot of old movies. Sometimes the professor brought in movie reels and others he had taped using one of the first VCRs. This was around 1976 or 1977 and it was a huge contraption. We never saw Marx Brothers movies, but watched Buster Keaton and Mary Pickford movies and “The Great Train Robbery” and how that contributed to the class, I have no idea!
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Beautiful wood duck!
Amazing picture!
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I’m thinking you do not have these feathered friends in your country rajkkhoja. They are everywhere, especially when people are eating and they want a handout. And, if someone throws out bread, suddenly you have many more birds clamoring for more. Glad you liked the photos!
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Yes, here not seen these feathered friends in my country. But it’s very nice. I like, Linda!
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Glad you liked them rajkkhoja!
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The park planners could have named it after seagulls and ducks would have congregated–you know how that works, right, Linda? Great captures!
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Yes, I do Terri … always expect the opposite when it comes to birds and animals. I went to my regular park this morning and there were about 100 seagulls shrieking their heads off … I’ve never seen that before. About 80 of them were sitting on the grounds – a seagull convention! Glad you liked the photos … something a little different and whimsical for March Madness.
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hahaha that’s cute, yes why not Seagulls, they seem to run that place!
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Agreed! The Seagulls were there before the picnic even started. We used to have Seagulls hanging around a park that was on the Detroit River. Bishop Park has a very small park, as the big draw is the boardwalk where people stroll or fish from it. So the gulls swoop and dive. The park area has grills, so people would be grilling hotdogs and gulls would swoop down, grab a bun and fly off. I guess their beaks didn’t get burned as they would return and swipe food whenever you turned your back for a minute.
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Lol they are pretty bold!
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And shameless!
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lol yes !
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Welp, obviously it’s up to you to get TPTB to correct that sign.
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Yes, I should work on that sign getting corrected Ally. I’ll stop at the Marshlands Museum, next time I am there. 🙂 The people reserve their pavilions for get-togethers and the seagulls got there before the crowd arrived. Talk about counting your chickens before they’re hatched!
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The seagulls were protesting the name of the pavilion. And they can be pretty strident!
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Yes they are Laurie! Coincidentally I got to Council Point Park this morning to find about 100 seagulls shrieking their heads off. About 20 or so in the sky swooping and diving and the rest were on the ground. It was eerie sounding and the Creek was still lightly frozen over so they didn’t see fish running. That is a first for me and I’ve been walking there 10 years next month.
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Wonder what got them all stirred up???
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I’d like to know Laurie as they were back this morning, just as many and a lot of them in the field with the rest flying incessantly in circles overhead. I took some photos, but haven’t looked at them yet.
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“I love the Marx Brothers. Great photos and a great line.
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Glad you liked the post Dan. I had a little fun with the photos and my heading. I had two college friends who had memorized many Marx Brothers dialogues and would break out into a conversation/skit for no reason at all and they wouldn’t miss a beat. Thank you for following my blog.
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Maybe that’s the name for a seagull that stands on wood. Lol
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Seagulls make their own rules sometimes. 🙂 Down at the Park, there were about 100 seagulls there all week. The shad are running, yet I didn’t see them, but asked the guy who fishes there all the time – he sits right at the water, so saw them. Imagine the noise of 100 seagulls screeching, diving, swooping … some of them are sitting in the baseball field … I have never seen so many seagulls at one time, even down at the Detroit River. I took pictures of them today.
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Funny! I can’t imagine ducks wanting to stake their rightful territory on the top of the roof. I think the gulls’ perch is safe 🙂
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I think you are right Janis! One day I went to the Park where I walk daily and a couple of Canada geese were walking around the top of the pavilion roof. I’ve never seen them do that – they are either in flight or on the ground. It looked really odd.
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Wood ducks sea gulls? Only if they open their eyes and look. 🙂
I loved the Marx Brothers as a kid, but have not watched one of their movies in a long time.
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There you go again JP – good riddle there! 🙂 I have never seen a Marx Brothers movie but in college, a couple of guys on the newspaper staff were Marx Brothers fans and they knew whole dialogues by heart. The very first time I heard them do these impromptu dialogues was when someone asked for directions and the other said “by the viaduct” and the other guy said “why a duck, why not a chicken?” And so it began – they were huge fans.
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