Sunday, July 24, 2011

Scenes, Birds , Flowers, Turtles and Creatures of the Vermilon River. A Post to MWT.

Island In Vermilon.
 This post is a collection of images. With the heat and some personal things to do, I haven't been getting as far, but I have been out. The first shots are of the river islands, and its rock outcroppings. You can see from photo 2 that everything is not perfect in our paradise either. See the name on the rock in the forefront. I normally remove any graffiti which mar the rocks, but left them this time for you to see.
Rock Face.

Turtle.
The turtle is from another wetland, actually north of Mystic Lake as are the water lilies and the water weed.
Water Lilies

Water weed.

White-throated Sparrow.
I am always intrigued  by White-throated Sparrows as they make me work to get the shot, and when I do it always look like I paid them to pose. These shots are from the woods directly behind me, about a 3 minute walk.

White-throated Sparrow.

White-throated Sparrow.

Male Hairy Woodpecker.

Huegy?
















 The Male Hairy Woodpecker is visiting my feeders again. I'm pretty certain this is Huegy the crow as the shot is from the back woods also and he has just finished calling. The song Sparrow is from the same woods.


Song Sparrow

Red Day Lilly.

Yellow Day Lilly.
 The day lilies are from my garden and seem early this year. I'm pretty certain that Louise can identify them all.
Yellow Day Lilly.

Red Squirrel
Of course, I ended with a photo of this guy.





A Post to My World Tuesday @ http://showyourworld.blogspot.com/

30 comments:

  1. oh, that little squirrel is just too cute!!!

    and so is that white-throated sparrow. just lovely! perfectly poised, like you said - just waiting for you to snap him.

    sorry about the graffiti - even in the beautiful wild...

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  2. Wonderful post! So greatto get to see turtles and I really like white waterlilies.

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  3. Ah, there you are! I can't imagine, graffiti, even where you are. Beautiful shots as always. I have no idea what the daylilies are, but, any picture of a daylily is a good picture of a daylily, I always say. But, I do think that your water weed is a pickerel weed. Pretty things, eh?

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  4. Little sparrow posing so nicely for you! Why must people deface beautiful areas? Ugh! But your pictures make up for it!

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  5. Oh what a lovely turtle - and those water lilies are gorgeous!

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  6. Your spring gets a slower start than here but you sure have caught up. :)

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  7. are the daylilies from your/someone's garden? i haven't seen them in the wild that's why i'm asking. and mystic lake is such a perfect name for water.

    ewok

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  8. That turtle and flowers are so beautiful. I like your peaceful place a lot.
    Happy week!

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  9. I do love turtles! And that shot of the sparrow wiggling his tail end at you is priceless!

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  10. Beautiful island with lovely flowers. I liked the last shot of squirrel.

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  11. Gary, your photos are just lovely. I just wanted to alert you to the fact that your blog cannot be opened from the MY WORLD page.I tried a number of times and thought I'd better alert you. Maybe if you log on again?

    Cheers. . .

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  12. Ha, ha, no harder than for us here in winter to think of you in summer!

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  13. Hi, Gary! This time, my favorites are White-throated Sparrow for its cute hipline and Red Squirrel. Oh, and one more... whenever I see water lilies, I remember Monet’s paintings. Thank you for sharing your lovely world as always. Stay cool.

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  14. What can I say, you've said it all texwisgirl.

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  15. Right on Louise. Pickerel weed it is.

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  16. They're from my garden PC. But tiger lillies, day lillies, and domestic roses are in the forest; the result of dumping probably.

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  17. It can be peaceful Spiderdama.

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  18. My mistake on the first link Arija.

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  19. I think our spring is slower in coming than yours, as winter hangs on, Arija.

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  20. Beautiful set of images, Gary. Love the water lillies!

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  21. you have turtles there too? We don´t have any at all.

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