Prancing and posing. #Wordless Wednesday #What pose is best Linda – left, right, or a little flair?

Posted on March 5, 2025 by Linda Schaub

Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.

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About Linda Schaub

This is my first blog and I enjoy writing each post immensely. I started a walking regimen in 2011 and in 2013 I decided to create a blog as a means of memorializing the people, places and things seen on my daily walks. I have always enjoyed people watching, so my blog is peppered with folks I meet or reflections of characters I have known through the years. Often something piques my interest, or evokes a pleasant memory from my memory bank, so this becomes a “slice o’ life” blog post. I respect and appreciate nature and my interactions with Mother Nature’s gifts is also a common theme. Sometimes the most-ordinary items become fodder for points to ponder over and touch upon. I retired in March 2024 after a career in the legal field. I was a legal secretary for almost 45 years, primarily working in downtown Detroit, then working from my home. I graduated from Wayne State University with a degree in Mass Communications (print journalism) in 1978, though I’ve never worked in that field. I would like to think this blog is the writer in me finally emerging!! Walking and writing have met, shaken hands and the creative juices are flowing in Walkin’, Writin’, Wit & Whimsy. I hope you think so too. - Linda Schaub
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57 Responses to Prancing and posing. #Wordless Wednesday #What pose is best Linda – left, right, or a little flair?

  2. bushboy's avatar bushboy says:
    March 5, 2025 at 6:02 am

    Good fun Linda

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  3. J P's avatar J P says:
    March 5, 2025 at 7:38 am

    Look both ways before crossing the tweet!

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  4. Ally Bean's avatar Ally Bean says:
    March 5, 2025 at 7:53 am

    I like #2 because it has a casual vibe that says “I’m ready for my close-up now.”

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      March 5, 2025 at 2:29 pm

      Your favorite was my first choice for the featured image Ally, then I decided to go with the “Tiny Dancer” or maybe “Prancer” instead. Seagulls always seem to have such a deadpan look.

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  5. Dave's avatar Dave says:
    March 5, 2025 at 8:04 am

    The raised foot speaks volumes. We have a ballerina bird here!

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      March 5, 2025 at 2:34 pm

      Kate, for some reason I always get cooperation from Seagulls when taking photos of them – either they find me fascinating (hardly), or I’m an interference in their otherwise boring day. 🙂

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  7. ruthsoaper's avatar ruthsoaper says:
    March 5, 2025 at 11:12 am

    All nice but I like the first one best.

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  8. rajkkhoja's avatar rajkkhoja says:
    March 5, 2025 at 11:55 am

    So beautiful , Linda! I like 2nd.

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  9. Sandra J's avatar Sandra J says:
    March 5, 2025 at 12:35 pm

    Great shots Linda 🙂

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  10. Debbie D.'s avatar Debbie D. says:
    March 5, 2025 at 3:45 pm

    Great closeups! The bird looks like she or he is posing in that first pic. 😀

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  11. TD's avatar TD says:
    March 5, 2025 at 6:26 pm

    The photos and your interpretation of the gull are cute, Linda. I’m gullible. 😃

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  12. farlane's avatar farlane says:
    March 5, 2025 at 6:53 pm

    Feels like forever since I’ve seen a seagull … gotta get near water😅

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  13. Terri Webster Schrandt's avatar Terri Webster Schrandt says:
    March 6, 2025 at 12:47 am

    Cute captures of the gull, Linda! Hope you had a good day!

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  14. trumstravels's avatar trumstravels says:
    March 6, 2025 at 11:02 am

    I like the first one with his foot up as if he’s about to step out !

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  15. Bay Photos By Donna's avatar Bay Photos By Donna says:
    March 6, 2025 at 12:06 pm

    “I am steppin’ out today and I feeeeel good!”
    Great shots of the Ring-billed Gull, Linda!

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  16. Robin's avatar Robin says:
    March 6, 2025 at 3:42 pm

    I love gulls. They always seem to have such attitude. Well done, Linda. 🙂

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      March 6, 2025 at 6:31 pm

      Thank you Robin I like gulls too – they’ll stand there and pose and yes, they have a little attitude going on too, but they seem to have more patience than other birds before flying off.

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  17. Rebecca's avatar Rebecca says:
    March 6, 2025 at 9:13 pm

    Nice shots, Linda. That first photo reminds me of doing the two-step.

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  18. Tom's Nature-up-close Photography and Mindfulness Blog's avatar Tom's Nature-up-close Photography and Mindfulness Blog says:
    March 7, 2025 at 1:37 am

    So intelligent-looking… (unlike the president). Geese still frequent the local ponds… but seagulls continue to be totally absent.
    Wonderful shots, Linda!!!!!!

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      March 7, 2025 at 8:22 pm

      Thank you Tom! This gull was very close to where I was standing … it did not even flinch as I took its picture and I wished I had a treat to give to it. That was the morning I saw all the Ring-billed Gulls and Caspian Terns. Interestingly I saw very few seagulls last year, with the exception of this mixed group that morning. We used to have seagulls at Council Point Park every time the shad were running – I’ve hardly been to the Park due to this incessant ice. Finally we’re about to turn a corner, so out both of us will go with our cameras.

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  19. Barbara Rodgers's avatar Barbara Rodgers says:
    March 7, 2025 at 8:01 am

    The second one — classic pose! 💙

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  20. lindalouslife's avatar lindalouslife says:
    March 8, 2025 at 1:48 pm

    I think s/he looks good from all angles.

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  21. Amorina Rose's avatar Amorina Rose says:
    March 9, 2025 at 4:33 am

    You brighten my Sundays.

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  22. indianeskitchen's avatar indianeskitchen says:
    March 11, 2025 at 2:44 am

    The black on the beaks always look like someone taped their mouth shut with black electric tape. Lol

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      March 11, 2025 at 8:28 pm

      Yes, it does look like that Diane – maybe their moms did that. 🙂 Today at the Park the Seagullapalooza has begun … the shad feeder fish must be running. I can’t get close enough to the water now to see and the Seagulls were dive bombing one another to get to the surface but I didn’t see any come up with a fish in their mouth. This happens every year, lasts a few weeks and is a pain as they cause a big ruckus and one side of the Park is full of them over top of the trail.

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      • indianeskitchen's avatar indianeskitchen says:
        March 13, 2025 at 7:36 pm

        OMG! I bet it was fun to see the first time but they can be a bit overwhelming, especially with all the poop. Still, I think they are a beautiful bird.

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      • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
        March 14, 2025 at 10:14 pm

        I think so too Diane. I am always amazed when I see them take flight and stretch their wings, because when they are not in flight, you’d never guess their wingspan is that wide.

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  23. singlikewildflowers's avatar singlikewildflowers says:
    March 12, 2025 at 1:45 am

    This bird is perfectly color coordinated!!

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