Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.
Linda Schaub
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Linda Schaub
- It’s Earth Day, so here’s a tree hugger for you! #Wordless Wednesday #Eastern Gray Squirrel
- Pollinator Pals.
- This ain’t easy, I feel queasy! #Wordless Wednesday #The Lotus leaf is listing! #114th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic
- Ice is NOT nice, whether you’re a heron or a human!
- Definition of a “sitting duck” right? #Wordless Wednesday #Mallard drake squared – reflection perfection!
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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 
Perfect picture! Is he playing hide and seek?
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Thank you Esther! I am not sure what he was doing as he was the only squirrel there, but I thought he truly looked like he was kissing the tree more than hugging it, but it worked well for Earth Day/Wordless Wednesday! 🙂
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They are cute pictures! If I approached a squirrel, it would’ve went skedaddling and no modeling pics for me. You’re good with animals. Kids always ask how you get squirrels to come up to you with treats when we are trying to feed them. We end up tossing walnuts to them because they won’t come near.
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This squirrel was so intent on hugging (or kissing) this tree, it didn’t pay attention to me. Usually the squirrels here at Elizabeth Park go up to people because so many people toss them peanuts, or other goodies. I’ve seen sandwiches, fruit, tortilla chips … they feast on them all. I’ll bet if you go back to the same place a few days in a row, even give it a week’s time and they will be running toward you. They are all leery at first and will approach slowly, then get closer and closer. Even when I had my regular group of squirrels at Council Point for all those years, I would never feed them from my hand, but if I held the very tip of a peanut between my thumb and forefinger and only if I had gloves on, they would inch closer. They might hear a sudden noise (car, motor, anything) and react by jumping up and it would startle you – they might bite. I am hoping we have some babies to add to the mix soon. The first litters are born in February and they don’t emerge from the next for 8 weeks. I am hopeful anyway.
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Cutest tree hugger ever! 😂
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I thought so too Pepper!
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Nobody hugs a tree like a squirrel!
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I agree JP – in fact I thought it looked like it was even kissing it! 🙂
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Life would not be the same for a squirrel if there was no trees to hug!
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*were no trees to hug.
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I agree with you Barbara! We need more tree-hugging squirrels and less birdfeeder-hugging squirrels!
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Such a cute tree hugger!
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Yes, isn’t it Ruth? I thought it even seemed like this squirrel was kissing that tree!
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Gotta love squirrels!
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Yes, this one was hugging, maybe even kissing, that tree trunk. I thought that squirrels only hugged the bird feeders, upside down or whatever method got them to raid the seeds the best way!
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purrrfect for eath day – lots of smiles and I need to go hug a tree = or at least rest or lean on one!
xxx
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Thanks Yvette! When I saw this squirrel shimmying up the tree and “hugging” it with both paws, I knew it would be perfect for Earth Day!
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I love your tree hugger, Linda, Happy Earth Day!
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Thanks Donna! My favorite critter and a tree hugger to boot! Same back at you!
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Happy Earth Day, Linda. How appropriate that you feature your favorite tree huggers in the blog post!
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Thanks Laurie – same back to you! When I took these photos of my favorite tree huggers last Fall, I just knew they’d be perfect for Earth Day 2026!
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Aww, squirrels are sure cute when they’re in someone else’s trees! Happy Earth Day to all who inhabit our lovely planet!
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Yes, they are Terri! In this case it was in a park and I wasn’t sure if the squirrel was hugging or kissing this tree, but it sure was attached to it! Yes, bless all of Mother’s Earths earthlings, no matter the type!
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I love that tree hugger!
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He is a cutie pie isn’t he Anne? At times he looked like he was kissing that tree!
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Great close up photos. I enjoy taking pictures of squirrels too.
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Thank you Monica! The Park where I walk had a lot of squirrels, 35-40 a day and I liked interacting with them and feeding them and they were in a lot of my posts, that is, until they tore the Park up on one side and now I’m lucky if I see five squirrels. I’m hoping for lots of babies to replenish the furry friends that are gone.
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Miss Linda…………………………Happy Earth Day!…………………………….yes squirrels love trees……………….beautiful close up pictures of your friends loving a tree!
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Thank you Ann Marie and back at you! At least we had a few pretty days to celebrate this annual event. This squirrel really did love this tree!
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Those are priceless! They are certainly giving those trees a good hug!
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I felt lucky to see this Joni! What are the odds you see a squirrel hugging a tree? I took the photos and told myself I would use it for Earth Day!
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Every day is Earth Day to me. Trees are to squirrels as water is to ducks.
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Very well said Tom – it is the same for me. I have concerns about this tick explosion here in Michigan, supposedly worse than last year. Not something I’m looking forward to dealing with once May arrives (with hopefully consistent better weather, but who knows about that?) The emergency rooms here are already full of folks with tick bites! April has been hit and miss with the weather and we had a tornado in this city the morning of April 15th – it was just a couple of miles from me, which is too close for comfort.
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I don’t know if i told you, but Amazon sells Sawyer Products Premium Permethrin Insect Repellent for Clothing, Gear & Tents, which is good for spraying on your pants and shoes to repel ticks and other insects. But nothing works 100% to keep ticks off.
Severe Tornadoes occurred just a little north of me in Kankakee, and more possible Tornado weather is due for this coming Monday. With global warming, we’d better get used to this kind of thing (unfortunately).
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What a cutie! I like squirrels and chipmunks and the chipmunks have finally started to come out of hiding!
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I swear that this chipmunk was hugging the tree, if not kissing it! I thought at first it had stashed some treats there, but never saw any! I wish we had chipmunks around here. It is rare when I see one and never at any of the parks near me. They are so cute.
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Great pics and some excellent tree hugging occurring.
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