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 
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Yes Vero – it was licking its beak in anticipation of the treat. 🙂
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Yum!!!
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Wonderful shot!
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Thanks Anne! I wasn’t sure if it bit the worm into segments for its youngsters or just to enjoy it slowly rather than slurp it. 🙂
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Is that a moustache or a worm? 🙂
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Ha ha – Dave, I admit I’ve seen handlebar moustaches that look like that! Because it was looking up in the air, I thought maybe it was thinking of serving those bite-sized segments to its young. 🙂
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A right place right time wonderful photo Linda
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Thanks Brian! I was trying to figure out if this Robin made those bite-sized segments for its young in the nest (since it was looking up), or it thought it was a politer way to eat it rather than slurping it as they normally do. 🙂
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Whatever it is, it’s long!
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Yes Kate, it was long enough to feed it (and its babies, if there were some as well). Doesn’t it look all triumphant with its prize?
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This must be that early bird I have heard of.
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Yes, that “early bird catching the worm” – what everyone always aspired to be once they got out in the real world!
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Great capture! 👌 The early bird gets his worm. 😀
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Thanks Debbie! And, doesn’t this Robin look all triumphant holding its prize worm?
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And a yummy story it tells. 😂👏🏽
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Yes Pepper, a nice worm to be savored a little at a time, rather than slurping it whole like the other Robins do. 🙂
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I agree. Savoring a little at a lime is much better. Silly of robins not to know that. 😂
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I am amazed how Robins pull those worms from the ground, tugging, almost ending backwards. I once watched a Mama Robin lay out a long worm and slice and dice it on the asphalt walking path, then she grabbed a piece at a time and took it up the nest. Before her first trip up to the nest she looked at me as if to say “mine, don’t mess with it lady!”
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haha! That is too funny. Now I will be on the lookout for robins in search of a meal. 😂
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Yes, they are very possessive of their “catch” and what was funny about this Robin was that after it diced up the worm, then worried I would take it, I decided to stay there so no other Robins took the worm pieces. I could see her busily feeding her chicks in the nest, so I helped “guard” her stash. I figured I’d establish a rapport with her for future pics! I once watched over a Robin’s nest and helped shoo away Red-winged Blackbirds who kept approaching the nest while Mama was out gathering grub.
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What a good friend you are. 😊
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Thank you Pepper! I wish I could find the post to send it to you. I’ve searched “slice” and “dice” on my blog to no avail. 🙂
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Thanks for trying, Linda. I’ll give it a try. Maybe I can come across it as I scroll through your posts. 😉
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Maybe I will think of another key word or two – I’ve had some interesting experiences there, so that is why I miss the ambiance that they destroyed two years ago. We had many more trees and more birds.
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Was it one of those times when they tried to improve one thing while messing up another?
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Yes, exactly! They said widening the Creek on each side would help the water flow better and prevent nearby homes from flooding. The homes still flood. The Creek has never overflowed its banks as it sits down low. It still looks horrible and the native plants they were supposed to plant have not been planted yet … a lot of weeds is all you see now and many habitats destroyed in the process.
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Sounds like someone didn’t do their homework before doing the work. 😧
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Yes, the mayor had no interest in anything. He ran unopposed and when they parked all the equipment to dredge the Creek and demolish both sides of the Creek in mid-April, I wrote him an e-mail and said “it’s nesting season – you will destroy all the waterfowl nests in the water, bird nests and squirrel nests in the trees. Sure enough they toppled trees on May 8th and nests came to the ground. People told me they saw female squirrels carrying their offspring from the toppled trees and their nests. The City never picked up the trees they toppled until just before 4th of July (likely because I wrote the mayor again and said “perhaps you are not aware of all the firecrackers, large ones, set off in the parking lot every 4th of July; I know because I don’t like driving far on a holiday weekend, so I walk to the Park the next morning and there are large firecrackers everywhere – one errant firecracker will torch these trees you hurriedly cut down on May 8th and they continue to languish there, a fire hazard.” That time he listened and it was picked up, finally. One year they set a trash can on fire trying to use it to set off firecrackers. They’ve made a mess of this natural habitat.
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That is so sad and maddening. I don’t even know what to say about that.
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This was such a big part of my morning routine for 11 years and there is still no effort to do anything to try to make it whole again. All the trees that were taken down along the shoreline – two miles of shoreline, each one-mile walking loop all gone. It was heartless and destructive.
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😦
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I wrote a post about it … the slideshow pics more than anything else show what damage they did:
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GULP……………………………………No Thanks!!!!
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Yes, a good idea to pass on that treat – I agree with you Ann Marie!
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I’d rather be a loser. 🤣 Nice shot, Linda!
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Thanks Ruth! Yes, that worm sure doesn’t hold any appeal! 🙂
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That’s not easy to catch, Linda! Our nesting robins are so fast and amazing how they swoop to the wet grass and snag an unsuspecting worm in a split second.
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I think it was proud of its catch Terri! 🙂 Their whole process for getting worms is amazing, especially on the ground when they are listening for worms underground, then standing there and grabbing one, tugging, then slurping it down. They are even more diligent about getting worms when there is a family in the nest!
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Not my kind of protein, but I’m glad he’s enjoying it!!
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I think he was really into showing off his catch more than eating it! 🙂
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A lot of people don’t realize that Robins eat a lot of insects too!
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Yes, grubs too – I’ve seen them taking grubs to their chicks in the nest. It is comical to watch a worm playing tug of war with a worm holding its own in the ground. The Robin seems pretty pleased with himself here.
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If they eat grubs, that keeps the moles away, which is good. There are a lot of robins in the yard these days. They are very aware, and i like them.
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That’s good if they’re eating the grubs as you don’t want moles and mole hills in your yard. I had a groundhog dig a burrow at the back of the house a few years ago. The pest service I hired to trap/relocate the groundhog live never caught the groundhog but we caught two opossums (which I understand are also valuable, especially since they eat a lot of ticks).
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Gulp!
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It seemed pretty pleased with itself Barbara. 🙂
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That’s a mouthful, Linda. I wonder if part of it is for little ones.
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It sure is Rebecca. I was wondering the same thing, because she has bitten down on the worm into segments, making it easier to tear apart in the nest, plus she is looking up toward the sky maybe at the nest. Or perhaps she is just triumphant about that big worm!
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