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Inspiration

5 March 2010, 7:48 am

Today Judy Laquidara asks the question, where do you get inspiration for your quilts? Just yesterday I took this photo of Roseate Spoonbills with some Black-Necked Stilts in the background. When I saw it up on the computer, I thought, “I need to make a black and white and pink quilt”!

This pair made me smile. ”My place or yours?” Notice where their nostrils are. They can wade in the water with their beak almost fully immersed, looking for food on the bottom, and still be able to breathe.

There was a lot of wing lifting yesterday. According to Wikipedia, they do the wing lifts to straighten a primary feather, for preening, or for drying. They certainly are pretty pretty birds, and should be inspiration to all of us who have noses a little larger than the ideal size — just wear a lot of bright pink!

One more picture for a good look at that spatula of a beak…

–Sue

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A Puzzle

4 March 2010, 1:13 pm

I can’t call it “Wednesday’s Puzzle” because, well, you have probably noticed it’s Thursday. Yesterday’s visit to Paradise Pond yielded some interesting Great Blue Heron photos. The late-afternoon sunlight was catching this particular bird. He had his eyes focused on something…

Then decided he needed a better look:

Doesn’t he look strange? Look at his little plume feathers sticking straight up from his head. He looks like a wholly different bird. So, your mission today, if you decided to accept it, is to put Mr. Peepers back together again. Good Luck.

–Sue

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Monday’s Birds

1 March 2010, 9:00 pm

A warm sunny morning turned into a warm-sunned chilly-wind afternoon. Of course, I went to the birding center in the less-than-pleasant afternoon. There were still some good photo ops. The Cormorants are plentiful down here, but I seldom take their pictures. Here is one coming in for a landing to hang out with his buds…

Another common bird I don’t photograph very much are the American Coots:

This Brown Pelican was flying low, skimming over the water:

At Paradise Pond, the Black-Crowned Night Herons are really abundant right now. You don’t see very many in the trees, but they are nocturnal and lift up out of the trees about dusk. People have counted well over 100 of them. I have to get over there this week between 6:30 and 7:00 pm to check it out this year.

But the Great Blue Herons were the stars of the show again. It’s the beginning of their nesting time. There were a number of lone Great Blue Herons in this grove of trees…