Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story. (Click me!)
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 
I immediately think of the television commercials for the Red Robin restaurant chain. “Red Robin . . . Yummmm” I wonder if this Red Robin gets bottomless worms the way I can get bottomless fries? 🙂
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Bottomless worms would be perfect for this Robin JP. I have never eaten at one of these restaurants and we have one the next city over – the parking lot is always filled to capacity, so it must be the bottomless fries that is drawing ’em in!
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Where’s the meat comes to my mind!
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Yes, that commercial … I loved it. One time at the Park I saw a Mama Robin pull a big worm out of the ground and proceed to slice and dice it into smaller portions with her beak, I assume to feed her offspring. She used her beak on the asphalt path and did it in even portions. I realized she had to make several trips back and forth to the nest. Crazy me told her I’d guard the remaining pieces ’til she returned, so no interlopers stole them. 🙂 She made several trips back and forth and yes, I had my camera and yes I got pictures.
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🙂 Of course you would guard her road kill!
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Yes, I really laid my credibility on the line writing that in my post and here in this comment. 🙂 Well, I felt guilty because she thought I was some unscrupulous, low-life human being, when actually I thought she was just a hard-working little mama, feeding her babies.
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So handsome!
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Yes, this Robin was perfect in its coloring and plumage Linda – sometimes they get a little raggedy, especially the females from being in the nest incubating, then feeding their young.
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If that’s not the most pleading face I’ve ever seen on a bird… the markings around the eyes help the expression. He knows who he’s catering to!
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Dave, our Robins always seem to have a scowl on their face. Over the years, I have had a Robin nest in my front coach light. It will put up a mud-packed nest in less than 24 hours, right over the mailbox, making the mailbox mud-and-grass covered and impeding me opening the front door. If there are no eggs in the nest, I take it down … the Robin comes over and scolds me and then starts dive bombing me, so now, in early April I take newspapers in a bag and stuff it in the coach light elbow to thwart nest-building attempts. A “House Beautiful” cover shot it is not! I always feel badly as I welcome any nesting birds, just not there! I was excited to watch and get photos of the Cardinal family a year ago.
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Okay, that’s a new one on me. We all seem to have our challenges with “critters” 🙂
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I got new gutters last Fall and there is a new drain spout I didn’t have before – it has a nice elbow area at the top, perfect for a nest. I did not climb up to stuff anything there, but you can bet I check it every morning when I go out. I’m surprised it is still without a nest.
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I listened and loved the Red Robin Bobbin song! It sounds like Yorkie in the morning trying to wake me up. We had a much needed nice rain storms starting at 4:00 a.m. two nights in a row and I fall back asleep until 8:30! Yorkie is use to us being the early birds getting the worms. She quickly gives up and I sleep more. Thanks for sharing the ear worm and meal worm activity. 😃
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Glad to give you the ear worm TD. I was thinking of that song when I saw the picture of the Robin on the computer screen and had not heard it since I was very young. I knew I could find it on YouTube.
I think we sang it along with other ditties at elementary school. Rainy days are nice for sleeping in … I’d turn over and snuggle under the covers a little longer too and tell Yorkie to do the same. We have had a lot of rain lately … two weeks in a row we had rain Tuesday through Friday and this week we had rain today through Friday. I get out when I can to take advantage of a sunny day.
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Perfect model for the camera!
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Yes, it didn’t move a muscle – posing must come naturally to this bird. 🙂
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Lovely bird, and he does look hungry. 😀 I remember that song from childhood.
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I think that Robin had perfect plumage – sometimes they are scraggly looking, especially the females when they are sitting on a nest or from tending to their young. We had all kinds of fun songs as kids didn’t we? Did you learn it in English or in German Debbie? I was looking through YouTube and saw several versions, mostly featuring the UK Robin which is very cute and petite.
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Thanks for the soundtrack! I do remember the song….
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You’re welcome Joni. I think we probably learned it in grade school. Did you also have those little ditties we sang to in kindergarten and elementary school? I can picture Mrs. Jamieson, my third grade teacher with her pitch pipe … one note, then we sang. The good ol’ days.
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Yea, or maybe on Romper Room? I posted a book review today, but did not get many comments. I remember anytime I tagged something book review when I blogged before, people said they never saw it, which makes me think it doesn’t always show up.
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You know, that is probably where I heard it first. I know we sang songs together in Grade 3 – maybe it was for a Christmas program at school.
What else could you tag it – if you looked in Reader to find other book reviews, what did they tag it as? I just looked and I have it in my Reader.
I got here at 3:30 and had issues with my computer again like in mid-May when I spent one entire day dealing with HP for a Microsoft buggy update. They did a fix and then Microsoft had another buggy update today. It said “a 7-minute update” and it took about 90 minutes, then it gave me an error message and it said it failed and they would reverse the update and to retry another time. I took a photo of the message and a screenshot of the failed message … I’m afraid that Microsoft has caused a corruption with this computer. It takes 15-20 minutes to boot up and I have to do a hard shut down again after it was fine. So I am now behind and thought I could catch up tonight. The first update was on May 11th the part two of Miss Austen and I wanted to watch the first episode that they e-mailed me. But could not due to computer issues.
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That sounds serious – do you have a computer shop you can take it to? I’ve only had two short updates since I got my new computer and Microsoft 11. they were both only about 3 minutes. How old is your computer, and is it with Microsoft 11 updates?
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I know it does sound serious Joni and it is not that old. I got it last July, Windows 11, but I never used it until January. I bought it as I wanted a Windows 11 before Windows 12 came out with all the AI stuff on it – it was supposed to come out for back-to-school, Fall 2024 and they ended up putting it off a year. The computer is still under warranty until July 5th – today I got on twice, shut down once and had no issues at all – I looked at the price for extending the warranty but you have to do that for three years and it is $124.00 ($145.00 with tax). Truthfully, I’ve never done an extended warranty for any HP laptop I’ve had and this is a Microsoft issue as that was the problem the last time, so I am not happy about it. I do have a computer shop to take it or have someone remote in to fix it – that is what they did on May 13th – five different times, the first four without realizing it was a Microsoft update gone bad and that a “fix” was forthcoming. I had Windows 7 laptops (my original 2009 one) and the one I just stopped using due to WP changing their platform last Summer and I couldn’t compile a post and never had any type of warranty for them. It is frustrating. I guess I have to try with the update again in a few days.
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So pretty Red Robin. She is handsome 😊.b
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Yes, they are our state bird and very nice looking birds.
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yes,Nice looking your State Birds. Perfect shoot.
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Thank you Raj.
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My pleasure 😄
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Miss Linda………………………………….I’m happy that the beautiful Robin is our state bird……………………………..right after I planted some little flowers today there were Robins trying to get to the worms nearby
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I think the Robin is a beautiful bird too Ann Marie – this one was especially colorful. It was actually sitting on a bike seat and I wanted that picture, but just then it flew off. So this was still a close-up. Did you share some worms with that Robin? There was the funniest video years ago about a man with a Robin “pal” and every time he worked in the garden, the Robin came flying over to get worms. The man would spear the worms with his pitchfork and the Robin would eat them like that. It was a cute video.
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You are so clever with your titles Linda. Now I can’t get that song out of my head! 🤣 My daughter has a robins nest on the soccer net that is leaning against her garage door. They have watched them from the egg stage and now there are five cute little fuzzy babies. The kids and my daughter are loving watching them grow.
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Thank you Diane – it is fun trying to come up with a witty title. 🙂
That is fun to watch – did they take pictures of the growth spurt too? They fledge at 14 days and suddenly one day you look at them and they have feathers and tufts of feathers and look grown-up. One year I watched a Robin make a nest and raise her babies in a house I passed enroute to the Park. So I took pictures of the babies once they were big enough to peek over the nest. One day I walked to the Park and they were sitting on the side of the nest and I figured soon I would not see them anymore. Then, in fact, the same morning, walking home, one baby fledged and I think he recognized me as he flew over shakily to the fence and I got some pictures of it. Then he flew to the roof. For a few days, him/her and its siblings stayed close to the nest, but this one baby would look at me or flew over to see me a second time. Lots of fun and it wasn’t even at my house.
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Great Robin photo, Linda! There are lots of robins in my yard. (I call it “my yard” but it is really theirs, and always will be.) I have a really nice fossil of a robin-sized bird that is 123 million years old. I’m glad that they survived for so many years and that they survived the mass extinction that wiped out the large dinosaurs. (Birds, all birds, are feathered dinosaurs.)
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Thank you Tom – this Robin was pretty close to me when I got the shot. It was sitting on a bike and just as I took the photo, it hopped down on the grass, so it was blurry – oh well, perhaps it liked posing on the ground better. 🙂 That is amazing that those fossils could be preserved that .long and still be in good shape. When I see the Great Blue Heron I think it looks very prehistoric, standing anyway. In flight, not so much.
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It’s so amazing that fossils can be preserved so well for so many millions of years. That fossil bird that i have is of a robin-sized bird; and you can see teeth. Many birds back then still retained teeth.
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Yes, well preserved when the creature died, so that was lucky. Amazing to think birds had teeth back then.
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She’s so pretty! What a nice close up! ♡
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Thank you Barbara – it originally was perched on a bike, then hopped down to the ground, amazingly close to me! I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Robin with such perfect plumage, not a feather out of place and so vibrant with that red chest.
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she sure did pose…. great shot
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Thank you Yvette – no worms were tendered either! 🙂
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🙂
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Our little robin family is back on top of our light fixture on our front porch. I think I mentioned that Clint put a board on top of the fixture as the nest was not staying on the light. They now come back every year!
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I do think we were commenting about our respective robin families Susan. My robin built her nest in the crook of the coach light, right over the mailbox and it blocked the front door. She did not return this year and I got new gutters last Fall and she totally missed a great opportunity to build in a little space under an overhang. I did not point it out to her and it was up high, so I’m glad she stayed away. 🙂
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Wow! Look at that orange tummy and those feathers. Amazing photo, Linda.
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Thank you Ally! I was really up close to this Robin. At first, it was sitting on a bicycle at this park, then it hopped or flew down. That ended up being to my advantage as it was closer than before.
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Hey Linda, I had to come back and let you know that I saw a show that showed an 1896 Duryea Runabout, that is displayed at The Henry Ford Museum. I thought of you because you have posted about the museum before. Do you ever go there these days?
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I have not been there in many years Yvette, in fact I want to visit The Henry Ford Museum/Greenfield Village in the next year because every year I write a tribute post to my grandmother for Grandparents Day. She was visiting here the entire Summer of 1976 and my mom suggested I take her to Greenfield Village/Henry Ford Museum. My grandmother had a heart condition and could do some walking, but needed to sit down occasionally too. So, off we went and the Museum is filled with many vintage items and a whole section was vintage clothing and another was very large farm implements. My grandmother grew up on a farm in rural Ontario and when she was old enough, she and one of her sisters (there were nine siblings altogether) escaped rural life and went to live in the “big city” i.e. Toronto. So here was my grandmother at the Museum, stopping to pause at each one of those large machines and telling me their names and purpose. Then we went to the area of vintage clothing and she was in her glory, pointing out how she owned buttoned shoes or a fancy hat, a small drawstring handbag … all the clothes she and her sister wore in Toronto. We were gone hours and hours and my mom became worried something happened to my grandmother due to the heart condition when we didn’t return home. I should have gone to a payphone and called home, but never thought of it. My grandmother spoke about this trip to the Museum for the rest of the Summer. I wish I’d taken photos and I always had my pocket camera with me but didn’t take it that day. Sorry for the ramble, but it was such an experience to be with her reliving her earlier years and a pleasant memory for my 1976 Grandparents Day tribute.
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I appreciated your reply and now I will think of you even more when I think of the museum. And wow, that sounds like such a rich experience with her – and we sure did not take photos as much back then – even those who had the pocket cameras – nothing like the digital days where we not only take more, but have more ways to share some of our pics….
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So, it looks like Grandparents is September 7th and so when do you think you will visit the museum?
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Thank you Yvette- it was nice to relive that memory – she was so animated during that visit to the Museum. I will likely do the post next year as it will be 50 years since that visit. If I go to the Museum/Green Village it can really be anytime, as I’ll take photos inside (assuming that is permitted – I should probably find out first). While school is in session, there are field trips there – we went twice during my middle school years. Then, during the Summer, there are a lot of events at this venue and people have memberships, so the events sell out fast. They have a Tribute to America (fireworks and DSP orchestra for 4th of July) and an Old Car Festival (which would appeal to me) and also Halloween and Christmas events.
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oh how fun….
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