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I've tucked the baby red winged blackbird's tiny, hollow boned features into my memory as I walk back to my SUV. I drive a short distance to another pond on the preserve before spying three deer. They're grazing grass along the embankment behind the pond. It's there I notice a  bat's aeronautics and the chorus of frogs sounding the evening. I'm watching the white tailed deer gently move into the woods. Before disappearing from my sight a doe takes one last look over her shoulder. It's as if she's tucked my five foot frame into her memory. Somewhere in the folds of darkness she's pulled away from my sight.

cattails

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I've left the green frog behind. He's burrowed deep into the mud or hidden among a cloister of cattails. The cattails have burst from their corndog sheath looking like cotton candy on a stick. I won't disturb them so another momma red winged blackbird can line her nest with their downy. When I look up I notice I've missed the baby red winged blackbird's first flight. He or she is residing now on crossed cattails at the pond's forefront. It's there I stand, inches away, tucking this tiny, hollow boned creature into my memory.

Here's a link to wikipedia on typha (cattails) I thought was interesting... did you know they were edible?

green frog

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I leave momma bird & her mate to their protesting as I continue walking along the pond's edge. At the other end I see frogs springing across the water like skipping stones... screaming. They tuck themselves safely beneath the water's surface so I can no longer see them. Only one green frog sits beside the water. It's body half clothed in mud. It allows me to step closer, closer still. When I've over stepped my boundaries he too flounces. Hidden loosely behind some weeds he allows me one snapshot before bounding off into the thick cattails.

red winged blackbird

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Momma red winged blackbird & her mate begin swooping from power lines as soon as I exit my SUV. They're protesting loudly to my approach. Now standing at pond's edge where cattails hover over my five foot frame I can see what momma was trying to tell me. Sitting quietly among the cattails is a baby red winged blackbird who hasn't lost all it's downy feathers. He or she stares inquisitively at my stalking never leaving its perch. I imagine one day it'll be brave as its momma whose still swooping and protesting my presence.

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During our June photography club meeting we had the pleasure of photographing a young bride in her beautiful strapless dress. Here's an animated gif of her twirling her dress for us.



hummingbird clearwing moth

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Here's a hummingbird clearwing moth nectaring on a butterfly bush at my neighbors house. I took this last week when I snapped the trumpet vines & female red winged blackbird. 

red winged blackbird

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Here's a female red winged blackbird letting me know she's not at all happy with me spying her through my lens. She's acting out quite loudly behind the trumpet vines and barbed wire fence. Perhaps she has some baby birds nesting just out of my sight? She never left that area until I moved away. Makes one wonder, doesn't it? Happy July everyone~
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