Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.
Linda Schaub
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Linda Schaub
- Mr. & Mrs. Cardinal (and a pal) partake of peanuts at the Park. #Wordless Wednesday #A favorite vintage ornament.
- Lean, mean and green.
- Which way is Santa Claus? #Wordless Wednesday #Remember those days?
- When there’s wicked wind, wildflowers and …
- Before and after a cup of Joe. #Wordless Wednesday #Sadly, we don’t ALL rise and shine!
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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 
Excellent photography. Beautiful Robin Hood. Nice keep her meals.
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Thank you Raj. She had a good day filling up on worms! 🙂
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Welcome, Linda!yes,do she!
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That’s some big worm the early bird got! I wonder if she chopped it up for her little ones.
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That Robin did score big Barbara … all this rain we have been having has helped the Robins find worms and the Robins all look fat and healthy. I once watched a Robin at the Park and took photos of her dissecting up a worm for her little ones. It was interesting as she dragged the worm to the trail to peck it apart and saw me and she couldn’t carry all the pieces to the nest in one trip, yet was reluctant to leave it on the path with me there. I purposely stayed so she knew I wasn’t going to touch it, no one else would get it either and to trust me next time. It was a fascinating study in animal behavior!
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That must have been amazing to watch her breaking the worm into smaller pieces for her chicks. The things we get to see when we take the time to stop and observe.
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It was amazing Barbara. I looked for that post to show you when I made the initial reply to your comment and couldn’t find it. I was sure I used the word “diced” and searched that way, but no luck. When I find the post, I’ll send it to you. It was amazing and she was using the perimeter path like a dinner plate to cut up her youngster’s meal. 🙂
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I found it Barbara – I was searching for “dice” and it didn’t pick up the word for some reason. I can’t remember if she diced it smaller on the path after these photos were taken or before these photos were taken. I have photos of her biting it while it was moving.
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Thank you for finding the post, Linda! I’ve never seen a robin doing that so it was so interesting to see.
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You’re welcome Barbara. I know she diced them up even smaller than that and I have seen Robins feeding grubs to their young back when we had some low-hanging branches at the Park and I could almost see into the nest, but I guess they couldn’t slurp down a whole worm when they are young. That Robin was very clever and there I stood next to the worm pieces as she couldn’t carry them all and at one point was reluctant to leave what she couldn’t carry. You’d think she would put the pieces in the grass so other birds didn’t see them?
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Well, that makes it official. It’s spring!
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Yes, Robins – time to embrace Spring!
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Oh I’m smiling. Today for the first time this year Z-D and I sat out on the deck for early morning coffee, watching the birds in the trees behind the house. We were so entertained by a nutty robin who kept flying toward us, veering off, and then hiding on the ground behind some grasses while peering around them to glare at us. He was not a happy bird.
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Ally, I always think that Robins wear a perpetual scowl, except this one whose beak was loaded up with worms. I’ve had a Robin try to nest in my coach light elbow every Spring for years. I tried to thwart its efforts by putting an empty box there, so it sometimes pulls down the box (I’m sure it has an accomplice). If it can’t pull the box down (since I stuff it with bags to make it a little heavier), it retaliates by picking the mulch out of the garden onto the grass. It has to be the original Robin’s offspring by now. I’ve got a bad reputation apparently. 🙂
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the Robin is thinking……….”Now If I can only find a fishing rod I can bring enough food back to feed all my kids”!
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Yes, what a great idea Wayne. Take the catch-of-the-day and the kids are fed in one fell swoop instead of multiple trips back and forth to the nest with worms and grubs. That was quite a long worm in its beak!
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I hope the baby robin had already hatched out of the egg that smashed on the ground!
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No worries – it was empty Laurie! I always hate finding an egg smashed like that, usually a Robin’s egg and usually in the neighborhood.
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Is that nest at your house? We have a robin nest on our light fixture out on our porch also but the nest kept falling down so my husband build a little wooden shelf for them.
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No, it is not at my house Susan, but I have a light fixture, a coach light with an elbow and they like to build nests in that elbow, but, I am not as nice as you two, because they build it right over the mailbox and when they built it once, it was so large I couldn’t open the front door. Now during nesting season I put a box up there to thwart them “building” … they never do anything small!
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Oh no, is that his nest? Is it payback from an angry bird? Our robins insist on taking baths every day, even though it’s cold right now.
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No, it is his nest Terri and I pass by it when I walk to the Park and the nest is huge, spilling over onto the surveillance camera. The dropped egg was actually empty, so no payback from another bird for stealing its nest. Our Robins are surly and I think they look like they are perpetually scowling!
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That’s good to hear.
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Fun photos and title, Linda. It’s almost like you caught the Robin red-belly-handed with it’s catch of the worm. 😂 I was glad to read that you only saw the egg so the baby had hatched! Spring is here and there will be more feathery friends to discover on your adventures. YAY!
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Thanks Shelley – I’m glad you liked the photos .. and title too. This Robin looked so happy to have scored the big worm. I’ve been lucky this year with no nests built yet … but give them time as they will put together a nest in no time, sometimes overnight, also in my outside light fixture. I once found a Robin fledgling on the ground. It was so darn cute and looked so scared. Mama Robin was not far off, keeping her eye on her baby. A few days of rain and storms, including this evening, then hopefully I’ll get back out again for bird pics.
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You’re welcome.
Robins are fun to watch. They can build in some spots that aren’t the best for humans and get nasty while they’re protecting their nests. We scare them off if they try to build on our deck for that reason. They do build their nests fast when the eggs need a spot!
I hope you get some great shots of the tiny feathery friends at the park!
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A few years ago they had treecutters at the Park and they removed all the low-hanging branches from the walking path. That’s too bad as there were two trees where Robins built nests in low-hanging branches, so I got photos of babies every year. I never see the Red-winged Blackbird nests. They build them in the reeds low down, almost to the water to conceal them. I’ve never seen a RW-B nest, nor a Jay or Cardinal’s nest at the Park and we have plenty of those birds. I hope I get some more pictures too. This year there has been only one family so far and I never got photos of them. I saw a glimpse when they were very young and saw them one day this week – they are big and running around, but didn’t get a photo unfortunately.
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I’m impressed you know where to look for the nests for so many birds. I haven’t seen those nests either. I’d love to see a hummingbird nest someday. We have a bunch of Red-winged Blackbirds this year, it’s odd, we don’t live that close to water spots.
Good luck on your quest for the new arrivals to the park!
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I’ve never seen a hummingbird nest either Shelley. My friend/neighbor Marge just loved hummingbirds and had all the shepherd’s hooks with feeders around the front window where she spent all her time in the living room the last few years. Out the back, on the deck, she had a wrought-iron gazebo and had the feeders hanging from the railings. She hate to see the Fall come and they left. So I found her a website that had web cams on several hummingbird nests and also feeders. So when she wanted a “hummngbird fix” in the middle of Winter, she’d go there. Their nests are very tiny, maybe 1.5 inches. I just Googled “Bella the Hummingbird webcam” and found it and will send it in a separate comment. It’s a YouTube video, not live anymore – looks like Bella died in 2022. But there are other webcams at exploredotorg/webcams.
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The hummingbirds are fascinating. So tiny, yet so mighty at the same time. Thanks for sharing the link. I could see how fun it would be to binge watch Bella’s adventures.
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I’m glad you liked them Shelley. The YouTube video I thought was better to get a summary of highlights of Bella’s life. They have some fun webcams there on exploredotorg and some pics of Africa as well. I’ll have to go look at those Africa cams again. A fellow blogger was doing a post or two a week on a recent trip to Africa she and her husband were on. Many safari pics – they were great. They travel a lot, RVing in the Summer and big trips the rest of the year. I am envious of their trips and both are interested in photography and are in a photography club.
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Yes, I agree, that summary video was great.
I admire people who can travel like that and share the photos so that those who can’t/won’t/haven’t get to see what they see/saw. That’s fun indeed!
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Yes, her series on Africa had a lot of photos – I think she posted twice a week for about six or so weeks. Lots of animals and birds I had only seen in TV nature shows and magazines before.
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I’m trying to imagine how many SD cards they took with them! 😂
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Yes, can you imagine? Susan said she didn’t take her long lens as it was too much to carry; I don’t know if her husband took his. He’s a good photographer too. She had a link to his online photo account – I think it was at Flickr.
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It’s a gift to be able to take photos no matter what camera you have, it’s nice they’ve figured out how to travel lightly and still capture so many great photos!
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Here is a YouTube video of Bella’s nest. The video is long, but it shows the nest right at the beginning with the baby hummers:
https://explore.org/livecams/hummingbirds/bella-hummingbird-nest
The web cams are interesting. I’ve gone on there in the past in bear/salmon season with bears fishing for salmon in Alaska. There are other hummingbird webcams … I think Bella was the most popular.
https://explore.org/livecams/
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Thank you so much for sharing the links!
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This is a shorter version from YouTube (highlights only):
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Aw, she was such a great momma!
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Enjoyed this! Now I know what to look for and size. Precious! My two feeders are busy all day long. Even when I sit on the porch. Curious George is still studying me too. I remember that blogger Eileen had a post of a hummingbird nest that she discovered underneath her deck. A thunderstorm is rolling in now so I’m watching them through the window. Thank you!
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I put out the shepherd’s hook, but not the feeder yet. It got very cold so I didn’t want frost to break the feeders, then it got really hot – like 80+ so the nectar spoils quickly, so I held off, plus every day we have this torrential rain and it will make the nectar too weak if the rain dilutes it. I’m waiting for the hummingbirds to knock on the door and say “look lady – what are trying to pull off here?” I do like hummingbirds. We have one nice day tomorrow, then rainy days the rest of the week, but nothing as bad as Texas with the flooding in Houston. I follow that blogger as well – I remember that post and I complimented her on the gourd birdhouses.
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There are some tasty worms there!
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Enough to feed her and the little ones!
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That robin is a wormaholic! That explains the other photos.
(Great pics, Linda!) 😉
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Thank you Tom! She looked pretty pleased with herself for unearthing that big worm. The past few days and today have been nice, but we have rain again for three days and last week it kept raining, so worms have been plentiful.
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Clever title Linda! Looks like it’s Italian Night with those spaghetti noodles. 😃
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Thanks TD – ha ha, yes – those worms do look like spaghetti. The Robin can have a slurpin’ good time. As a kid when I got to eat spaghetti for the first time without having my mom cut it up for me first, I tried slurping a noodle and got a glare from my mom and never did it again.
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I’m laughing to slurping!
I remember at the dinner table my siblings and I had to be on our best behavior. We didn’t get the glare, instead we got the lesson how to properly eat spaghetti by using a fork twirling the pasta loaded with sauce in a spoon by our Dad. But when he was not home our Mom was much more fun and we could wear paper napkins tucked under our chin to eat however we liked.
I can see the baby robins slurping worms wearing tiny kerchiefs around their necks like a cartoon. 😄
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That is a funny scene I am picturing TD with the baby robins wearing tiny kerchiefs around their necks to catch the drippings. 🙂 My mom would be on me as to no elbows on the table, but my father ate with knife and fork – everything had to be with a knife and fork, so when he was there, I had to do likewise.
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Fantastic picture with the worm Linda. I see she found your light again this year.
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Thank you Diane – that was quite the mouthful of worm wasn’t it? Actually this is not my light, but one in the neighborhood on my way to the Park. I’ve been walking to the Park more now as I never know when they are starting this Creek widening project and so I don’t know if they’ll barricade the parking lot except for workers (like they did for COVID). I figure they may not let walkers onto that side. I’d park on a side street I guess, but I always liked walking to the Park, one mile each way, otherwise if I get four or five miles in, it is four or five laps and handing out a lot more peanuts. 🙂 The robin has not built in my coach light yet – I’m ecstatic for that, but I have a box ready to shove in the elbow as soon as I see dead grass on the porch and mailbox lid.
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