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 
So cute & beautiful Bird. She looking.
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Glad you liked it Raj!
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Thanks,Linda!
Very pretty Swallow.
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Thank you Raj, I am glad you liked it.
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Some Welcome Swallow 😂
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Yes, a small bird with a big attitude. I started to entitle this post “hey, you talkin’ to me?” since it shot me such a defiant look. 🙂 (I just fished you out of my SPAM filter for some reason; you’re the third person this week that landed there.)
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Your direct comment are always in the trash folder. WP is doing crazy stuff at the moment while they introduce new features
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Yes, I found another legitimate comment in there today. I’m surprised I’m still landing in your trash folder after a month or so of commenting.
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Graham from Hawaii is always in there 🙄
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That’s crazy. I am glad I closed comments after 30 days though because I rarely got legitimate comments in there, but I had to wade through a ton of SPAM daily to check anyway.
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Wow. My spam is almost non existent since I closed comments after 30 days
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Yes, I am glad I did it – it was a nightmare before I closed comments. I wish I did it sooner.
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Same
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Such a beauty. You got a great shot here.
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Thanks Kate – I like the way the dark blue looks iridescent in the sun. Little bird had some attitude going on there. 🙂
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I swear, sometimes it appears that they are really listening to your posing directions!
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I know! That was a lucky shot! I originally wanted to entitle this post: “Hey, you lookin’ at me?” It has such a defiant look after it caught me stalking it. 🙂
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Is that a purple Martin?
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No, it is a Barn Swallow. It was sitting on a ledge near a covered bridge – the Barn Swallows nest in the rafters of the bridge, so it was taking a breather from catching insects in mid-air.
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Thank you !
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Pretty bird with attitude, Linda!
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Thanks Terri – once it caught sight of me, it gave me that rather defiant stare. You gotta love birds sometimes. 🙂
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I have one of a swallow that gave me quite the attitude when he slowed down enough for me catch him!
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I think the swallows are annoyed at themselves for slowing down that long for us to grab a shot or two. I had saved these photos to use with a Robin who gave me an equally surly look. I have often described our Robins as the original “angry birds” and they’re not cute like the UK robins I see in other posts.
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🤣🤣
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Man, you are GOOD!!! Gettting those swallow photos must have been difficult. I miss the swallows! Can’t wait until they come back again.
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That WAS lucky Laurie – thank you! The swallow was sitting on a ledge near the covered bridge where they nest in the rafters. It was taking a break from catching insects in mid-air and didn’t see me at first. It sure gave me a defiant look when it caught sight of me. When I go to Lake Erie Metropark, there is an overlook where people fish and if I walk over it and there are no other people there, I see barn swallows alight on a dead tree. They line up like they are chatting with one another. Very cool! So, I have some up-close shots I took this Summer of them there. I’m thinking I may use them in a post for my wrap-up of critters and birds in 2023.
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Nice photos of this little bird. They are fun to watch.
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Thanks Rebecca. That was lucky that it landed after catching insects in mid-air. They usually nest in the rafters of the covered bridge and it was on the ledge near the bridge. I do miss them – ours have gone south already.
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I know how you feel. That’s the same way I feel about our little hummingbirds. The yard just feels quiet and lonely without them.
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Do you follow their migration home again Rebecca? I used to get an e-mail newsletter, but they stopped sending it. Birds & Blooms online and our local Wild Birds Unlimited also posts the map so people can start putting out their feeders in early May.
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No, I’ve never kept track of them, but it is amazing how many miles they fly on each migration.
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Yes, like the Monarchs. Nature is amazing sometimes. When I see the migration map pinpointing their migration next year, I will send you a link – it follows when they leave until they arrive in each state.
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Whatcha lookin’ at?!? Yeah, I’m gorgeous!
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Yes very pretty TD and when the sun hits those indigo blue feathers, they look almost iridescent.
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Lucky yo to see it and pay attention to the beautiful details!
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Thank you TD. I have a slew of Barn Swallow pics I took at Lake Erie Metropark to use in an upcoming post. They flit around an overlook, but if it’s quiet, they will all go to a small dead tree and sit on a branch clustered together. If something spooks them, they fly off in a hurry. I had some pictures of them last year up close and they were all fluffed up.
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What beautiful pictures Linda. That’s not a barn swallow is it?
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Thank you Diane. Yes, it is a Barn Swallow at Heritage Park. It was sitting on a ledge next to the covered bridge. They nest in the rafters. Sometimes you walk on the bridge and look up to see chicks looking down at you from their nest. 🙂
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That is awesome!
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Yes, they are cute and curious chicks Diane, poking their heads out of the nests which the adults build right in the corner of the rafters and they are durable looking, made with mud and grass, kind of like a Robin’s nest, but packed into the corner.
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Diane – did you do an upgrade/update on your site tonight – I’ll send you a screenshot.
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He has a naturally serious expression, as if bearing the weight of the world as he looks out at it.
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I do like that intense look too Dave. Sometimes gulls do that as if they are staring at the water (“gazing out to sea”, but then he turned around and that expression changed in a heartbeat!
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Barn Swallows, Linda, as you well know, are the most adroit flyers. There aren’t as many around the bridge here any longer. To much pollution and insecticide spraying.
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They are amazing Tom and I considered myself lucky to photograph this one as they rarely alight on anything, just diving and swooping and catching/eating insects in mid-air – quite a feat. I also have some Barn Swallows pics taken at a marsh overlook where all the Barn Swallows congregate until they see a human. I stood behind a bush and peeked around. I’ll be sharing those pics next month. Pollution and insecticide is killing our birds, butterflies, bees – where does it end Tom?
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Beautiful! What kind of bird is this? It’s not one I’m familiar with.
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Thanks Linda! These are Barn Swallows. It is rare when they stop for a minute so you can get a photo of them, although I have some photos of some Barn Swallows at another venue, lined up on a dead tree branch. I took this photo near a covered bridge where these Swallows build their nests in the rafters. They are always swooping and diving for insects which they eat in mid-air, so they rarely stop flying to pose like this. They are pretty, especially when the sun hits their cobalt-blue feathers and then they look almost iridescent.
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What a beautiful bird!
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They are very beautiful rabirius – if it is sunny, their cobalt blue plumage looks iridescent! Thank you for your comment.
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Way to be an excellent paparazzi. Barn swallows around here rarely sit still long enough to get a photo of them. Well done, even if it looked like you may have interrupted something it was about to do!
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Thanks Shelley – yes, he was having a moment of contemplation and I interrupted it and didn’t he/she shoot me a rather disgruntled look? I have a similar photo of a Robin wearing a scowl to use sometime. 🙂 Plus, I have some Barn Swallows who were having a morning chat lined up on a dead branch and I was hiding behind a bush and they didn’t see me – something more to share in 2024 and if I don’t get moving on all these photos, it will be Summer of 2024 … I have three more 5Ks to “report” on, two taken at Heritage Park where this pic was taken (the pictures of the dew on the spider webs) … hopelessly behind, but I’ll still just post twice a week when retired.
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It’s funny to see birds with expressions. I zoomed in on a woodpecker the other day and watched its eyelids open and close. That was fascinating, and I didn’t click the camera once! Ugh.
Lucky you, though, you have plenty of pictures to use if you can’t get out and about to get more photos.
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I have taken pictures of geese sleeping … I take a picture, then another shot that’s similar and on the screen I see the goose closed its eyes for a millisecond and their eyelids are very pale, like beige, on their dark face. It always looks funny. It is actually my goal not to run out of photos over the Winter – I could always take squirrel and bird pics like I used to do. I never know just how crummy the Winter will be, so I plan ahead (or have a blogging break I guess). 🙂
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Yes, that’s what it was like watching the Woodpecker.
I think you’ve got your bases covered when it comes to photos to use. 🤔😉🥳
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Yes, it’s weird with the eyelids and may ruin the picture, just like I get a lot of red-eye shots with the squirrels if they’re in a low-light situation. I hope I have enough pics Shelley. There is not much to photograph except the snow now until Spring and we are having an “easy Winter” or so they say. My favorite meteorologist I follow on Twitter says we will get slammed with snow the end of January/through February. I hope he is wrong.
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I hope your favorite meteorologist is wrong too!!! 🥶🤔❄⛄😆
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The Weather Channel said we will have a possible “Super El Nino” Winter … I’m okay with just a regular “El Nino” – otherwise we may have issues in other seasons.
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I believe the weather when I see it 🧐🤔😆
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They always say being a weather forecaster is great – what other job can you be wrong so much and keep your job?
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Mr. says that EVERY night when we watch the weather on the local news!! 😆
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Hello there!!! Cheep cheep
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Hi Ellie – and he/she probably thought I was cheap cheap as I didn’t dig into my pocket to reward it for the lovely pose. 🙂
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I’m amazed you caught this one resting — they’re usually moving too swiftly to catch with a camera!
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I was amazed too Barbara. You never see them pausing as they’re too busy diving and swooping and catching insects in mid-air. It was great as it looked at me for so long, like I had interrupted its thinking. 🙂
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Yes, that’s some attitude, alright.
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Usually it’s just the Robins, which I have dubbed “the original angry birds” that convey such an attitude – they even have their scowl perfected. But this Barn Swallow had some attitude going on as well. 🙂
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