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 
“tis cottonwood season. My eyes are watery and itchy. At least the mourning dove doesn’t seem to mind.
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It’s flying like crazy right now Ruth. I washed off the A/C grille this morning in anticipation of running the A/C a lot in this heat wave. It is bad for allergies, but the dove is only interested in looking for something to eat and doesn’t seem bothered by it.
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Very cute, Linda. 😊
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Thank you Pepper!
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Beautiful photographs!
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Thank you Anne! A beautiful bird with a mournful, but beautiful song.
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Wonder what the dove thinks of the fuzz??
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Anne, it didn’t seem too affected by the fuzz; it continued to hunt and peck for food, but in this park the fuzz was flying everywhere.
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💙💙💙
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I, of course, thought of you Barbara … your favorite bird.
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This is a lovely dove. Wonder what it must be thinking. It looks like it’s wandering around and enjoying it’s time. Lovely close up photo, Linda 🙂
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Thank you Mabel. I love doves because they seldom bolt and don’t get spooked being near humans as songbirds and waterfowl do. This one seemed so inquisitive as it was pecking for food. The Cottonwoods trees were raining down fuzz but it didn’t seem to bother the dove in the least.
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It is lovely that doves are friendly. We don’t get that many doves here where I am in Australia. We tend to get pigeons here… And we have very different kind of cottonwood trees here too.
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I have followed a few Australian bloggers in the past and you have some exquisite birds and blooms there. I am in awe of your country’s flora and fauna!
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Indeed lots of exquisite birds and blooms here… The more common ones people tend to know are the emu and kookaburra, and the wattle and eucalyptus trees 🐾🌳
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It is a paradise from the photos I have seen – you are lucky to live there Mabel. I have followed the Australian blogger Brian (Bushboy) in the past and I’ve seen his photos of the kookaburra and many birds I have never heard of, the same with the flowers and trees. I went to the Toledo Zoo in Ohio once as they had a special Koala exhibit and the Koalas were sleeping every time we went over to the exhibit. Their handler explained that since all they eat is eucalyptus leaves, it doesn’t give them much sustenance and so they sleep a lot!
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A quiet invitation to let the image speak for itself sometimes no words are needed at all.
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Yes this very true Anowar Sadak, like the old adage that “a picture paints a thousand words.”
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I think mourning doves are underrated. I see them out at the park, if pools of sun, and they just glow. They’re always late to my feeder and sometimes I think they’re not playing with a full deck…but birds rarely play cards anyway.
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I think their plumage is pretty too Dawn. The best thing about these birds is they don’t spook easily, so you can approach them for photos and they don’t bolt like songbirds or waterfowl do. They are peculiar sometimes, but not as much so as pigeons. Do you ever see them if they roost on a building? At a local Ace Hardware, they have tons of pigeons on the roof. They all take flight at once, fly one way for a minute or so, then fly the other way for a minute, then go back to the roof again.
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The advertising industry has done a number on me. I cannot think of the name “dove” without thinking of an oddly shaped bar of soap. (That is 1/4 cleansing cream!).
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Ha ha – yes, Dove soap and the woman who says those words with the creamy soap lathered all over her face. The odd-shaped soap made it difficult to hold onto the bar. See the advertising works JP!
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Great closeup shots! 👌 You can see every detail of the dove’s feathers.
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Thank you Debbie! This Mourning Dove sure didn’t mind posing and didn’t bolt when I was done either. It just kept poking around the Cottonwood fuzz. I think they are pretty birds when you get to see them up close.
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Lovely photo of birds👍
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Thank you Neeraj Singh! Doves are very pretty and gentle birds.
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The blue is what really stood out today linda – is that a periwinkle blue> love all the details
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Thank you Yvette! It is a nice shade of blue and I would indeed call it periwinkle blue, which stands out in this Dove’s plumage – it reminds me of how Mallard ducks, both male and female, have what is called a speculum feather on the wing, bright blue embedded in their wing feathers.
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you know so much about our avian friends!
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I have picked up a lot of info from following bird sites and following a group of wildlife photographers who take photos at the 13 local Metroparks. So that has been great … learning by osmosis a little at a time rather than being “book smart”! 🙂
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Oh that osmosis method is wayyyy better than forcing it – hahah – hope you have a great day
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Yes, gradual learning instead of learning so much at one time that your brain can’t hang onto all of it! You have a great weekend Yvette!
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I love mourning doves. People think they are ordinary but they are graceful.
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I feel the same way about mourning doves Kate. I like to hear them cooing and they never bolt like songbirds and waterfowl – they seemed to always be calm.
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Perfectly rounded head and plump body!
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Yes Esther and I’ll bet that any silhouette of them is identifiable as to these Mourning Doves too.
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Nice shots, Linda. I love to hear and see them.
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Thank you Rebecca! They are so peaceful and have a calming effect with their song.
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Miss Linda………………………………………….this Mourning Dove doesn’t mind all of the white fuzz all over the place………………………………….He’s even posing for you!!
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This Mourning Dove was so peaceful and pretty Ann Marie – it just meandered around hunting and pecking for something to eat, while Cottonwood fuzz was flying around.
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I love mourning doves! They are such goofy nest-builders! Their nests wouldn’t win any awards!
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I love mourning doves too Tom! My neighbor had one nest on her deck once and because she had a sliding door to go to the deck, she could watch the dove from the glass window and took pictures of it and the chick once it hatched. I even wrote about it in my blog as she sent me several photos. As to nesting habits, my neighbor had a long wire basket that had plants in it the previous Summer. She left it on a table over the Winter and the dove built a nest in that. She incubated two eggs, one did not hatch and my neighbor saw it roll off the deck and into the garden. Then, both parents were teaching the baby to fly and it fledged and she never saw it again. She really enjoyed watching them.
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They have such a sad sound! We have a lot that hang around our house. I like them but they aren’t too bright lol
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Yes, they do have a sad sound and there aren’t any around the house now, but there were in the past and they’d wake you up every morning with the woo-woo-woo. 🙂 I don’t notice them not being bright, but pigeons I think aren’t too bright. Have you ever seen them take flight if they roost or perch somewhere … they all fly to the left for a minute, then they all fly to the right for a minute, then return to where they were before they take a notion to leave another minute later. A big hardware store used to have them sit on top of the roof and I’d watch their actions sometimes while walking to/from the parking lot to the store.
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I never noticed their flight patterns before! I’ll be watching them now 😀
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Yes, sometime watch them – it makes no sense to me and they all do that, whenever there’s a group. We don’t have as many single or pairs of pigeons as we have so many Cooper’s Hawks around now.
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Here I thought “mourning” dove was a clever play on words but apparently there is no “morning” dove. Who knew? (Well, YOU did ha). Beautiful “morning” colors and designs in the feathers of the wings.
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Ha ha – yes Dave, I thought I’d turn it around to give everyone a smile. The Mourning Dove’s call is so plaintive at times and sometimes they sit in place for hours and coo. There was a pair that nested in the backyard and every morning you’d hear that woo-woo-woo.
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