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Here are just a few images of some wildflowers I saw while birding last week.
Yellow seems to be the wildflowers blooming the most around here right now.
Here’s a Yellow-Rump Warbler I saw while on the same walk that fits the Yellow theme. 😊
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While in Ohio earlier this month we also wanted to see more of the area we based ourselves in so, one afternoon after a morning of birding then lunch we drove back to our hotel grabbed some stuff then headed to catch the ferry to Put-in-Bay, an island on the shallow western end of Lake Erie.
We decided to be walk-on Ferry passengers. Here’s where we we’ll wait for the ferry to come in. See the ferry making its way to the dock on the right back there? There’s a blue door!
Does that big ole portal the cars, trucks, and passengers enter and exit the ferry count as a door?
It was smooth sailing over to the island. We’re almost there! I see lots of doors as we approach the island.
The view of the dockyard from the upper deck of the ferry. There are several open doors.
Welcome to the island!
Some fun facts about Put-in-Bay:
The island dates back to the War of 1812 when Put-in-Bay became an important operations headquarters for Oliver Hazard Perry. The island was the launching point from which Perry set sail to defeat the British fleet commanded by Robert H. Barclay in the war of 1812. The historic battle of Lake Erie and the American victory gave the United States Navy and our country the often quoted slogan, ” We have met the enemy, and they are ours.” For more information about the island and its history visit this website. ~https://www.visitputinbay.org/history/
Today there’s a 352 foot granite column on the battleground site. The Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial. There’s a lookout at the top, which we were told has exceptional views on clear days like it was that day, but it was closed the day we were there. Two pics because I can’t decide which to share. I hope you like them both.
In fact most things on the island were closed. Their season starts Memorial week-end so, we were 12 days early . The preferred method of transportation while on the island is by golf cart or foot. We took the bus into town and had a great bus driver who shared lots of great information about the island with us. Then he hooked us up with the trolley driver who was giving out free tours of the island that day. He was nailing down his talk-points of interest about the island and practicing on us. He was great! I took a few snaps of the bus and the trolley but I can’t find them. Sigh.
This is getting rather long so, I’ll wrap it up. I have more doors and history from the island to share with you next week.
This post is part of the Thursday Door weekly challenge. To see more doors from around the world visit our host’s Dan Antion of No Facilities site https://nofacilities.com/2024/05/30/on-board-the-delta-pearl/
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For Mother’s Day and my birthday He-Man and I went to Ohio for several days of birding the Spring migration of Eastern birds. It was fantastic. I added 27 new birds to my life list most of which were Warblers.
Here are three that I have processed.
My favorite Warbler seen was the Chestnut-sided. Isn’t he gorgeous.
I have thousands of images to cull and sort through so I’ll be dribbling out the images over the next several weeks.
It was a great trip. I hope I get an opportunity to return as there are Warblers, and other birds I still hope to see.
Have a great week-end everyone.
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Last week I was birding with a group I belong to. We had a very exciting birding day with 66 species sighted. There were lots of great sightings, one was while in a big field in a Washoe Co. in the sagebrush, we saw a Brewer’s Sparrow and I got a few good images. It’s a “lifer” for me. A “lifer” is the first time you’ve ever seen a bird species.
We saw two adult Bald Eagles which was exciting because one flew onto a telephone pole carrying food of some sort and started eating. Then we heard another Eagle call out and fly into the scene ready to attack from behind!
It tried to steal the food of the BE on the pole. The BE with the food took its prey and flew over to a nearby telephone pole and carried on eating while the would-be thief sat on top of the pole trying to figure out what went wrong and why he now had control of the pole but no food. 😂
In three images: The approach, The Attack, and the would-be thief flying off several minutes later very disappointed. I was too far away from the poles to get good images, but they’re keepers and good enough to tell the story with.
The Would-be thief flyby was better as I had moved closer by then.
Some other cool birds I saw and photographed were:
I don’t have any cool bird fun facts for you today as the post would be too long. It’s already longer than my usual post.
FYI, I will be late getting back to you on the comments but, I will get to them.
I hope you all have a great week-end!
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Last week I was making my way around a big loop birding and at one stop I happened upon a Classic Car group just as they were starting to pull out. I hurriedly grabbed my other camera with a wide angle lens and ran to a place near the exit to get a few images. I wasn’t fast enough to get an image of all the cars, but I did get a several. Here are some of my favorites.
This one is just so cool. Is it a muscle car? I’m sorry I didn’t get there earlier to note the makes and models of all the cars. Look at that engine though.
The drivers were pretty cool when they saw me with my camera they slowed down and let me get some nice images. 😊
Look at those white walls with red accent stripe. Nice.
And last, but not least my favorite Red car of the lot.
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The first week of March I started hiking out to see if a Great Horned Owl had returned to a nest she has used many times in the past. She wasn’t there. March 9th I returned and she was there!
It was time to start looking for the Owlets. I returned on the 19th, 25th, and 26th of March and saw no owlets but, hoped Mama was sitting on eggs.
I returned on April 4th, 14th, and on April 20th a birding girlfriend sent me an email telling me she went by and there were two Owlets! I went the following day, the 21st. When I arrived I only saw Mama no Owlets. So I birded the area and waited and waited. After an hour or so I saw a little white fuzzy head stirring behind Mama then not too long after that the cutest 2 Owlets you’ve ever seen popped up to see what was happening in their new world. They must have just hatched days before by the looks of them.
They barely could keep their eyes open. They were so tired. Mama had one eye on me the whole time though.
I’ll be making regular trips over to watch them grow, and hopefully this year will be the year I see them branching. I’ve never seen the previous year’s owlets do that here, and I’ve also never seen the Male GH Owl who I know has to be nearby.
Spring is here so I put out the outdoor cushions Monday morning and wouldn’t you know it Tuesday morning it rained. 🤣
I hope your week is going well.
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