Word Bird Wednesday

Time once again for Word Bird Wednesday!  You don't have to be an experienced bird watcher or photographer (Thank the LORD) to join in the fun.  All you really need is a love of birds--observing them, photographing them, feeding them, learning about them, sharing them, enjoying them--or just ooohing and ahhhing over the finds of others.  Whatever it is you enjoy about birds, join up with Springman's Word Bird Wednesday at The Pine River Review.  You won't be sorry--unless you miss it.

 

This last week or so it seems as though our lovely feathered friends were avoiding me every time I had my camera--just to mess with me.  BUT, coming back from a fundraiser on Sunday (DD3's group SSMA [Student Sports Medicine Association] hosted a kickball fundraiser for the prevention of childhood obesity), Hubs stopped to purchase some boiled peanuts (OMG- YUMMY!) and I spotted two OSPREY hanging out on the lights at one of the middle school football fields!

World Bird Wednesday

Time once again for Word Bird Wednesday!  You don't have to be an experienced bird watcher or photographer (Thank the LORD) to join in the fun.  All you really need is a love of birds--observing them, photographing them, feeding them, learning about them, sharing them, enjoying them--or just ooohing and ahhhing over the finds of others.  Whatever it is you enjoy about birds, join up with Springman's Word Bird Wednesday at The Pine River Review.  You won't be sorry--unless you miss it.

 

Life is way too busy around here what with getting the raised beds going (complete with drip irrigation that Hubs set up that lead from rain barrels...oh yeah, he's good) and preparing to celebrate DD3's college graduation SO, some of these pictures are from last spring and some are more recent.  For some reason--and I'm guessing it's related to all the idiots lovely dog owners who are too stupid choose not to leash their dogs EVEN THOUGH THERE IS A LEASH LAW--the big birds are not frequenting the ponds as much this year.  Only one Great Blue Heron and, making even less of an appearance, one Egret.  There is a bird flying around though that I've been trying to get a shot of but he is so fast and he leaves whenever someone approaches--even though he's high up in the pines.  He appears to be some sort of hawk...I'll keep trying to get a shot of him- he's beautiful---like these Great Blue Herons in flight- the first one is the very first picture I ever took, on purpose, of a bird and is the reason I became interested in birds.  The quote that I separated and put beneath each picture is from Wendell Berry...Enjoy!

"When despair for the world grow in me, and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be---

I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds...

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought or grief...

I come into the presence of still water....

And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light....

For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free."  Wendell Berry

World Bird Wednesday

Time once again for Word Bird Wednesday!  You don't have to be an experienced bird watcher or photographer (Thank the LORD) to join in the fun.  All you really need is a love of birds--observing them, photographing them, feeding them, learning about them, sharing them, enjoying them--or just ooohing and ahhhing over the finds of others.  Whatever it is you enjoy about birds, join up with Springman's Word Bird Wednesday at The Pine River Review.  You won't be sorry--unless you miss it.

 

There was one bird in the yard this week that hasn't been around, consistently, for over a year.  He's quick too, so I was lucky to get this shot of the Brown Thrasher.

And then there was a brand new bird in the yard.  I think it's a Dark-Eyed Junco.