Showing posts with label winter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label winter. Show all posts
Mouseburger
Labels:
fototudes,
naquillity,
prey,
red tailed hawk,
snow,
winter
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A lone red tailed hawk sits quietly among snow laden branches. He's watching the ground below for a mouseburger or two. Spotting his trail mix, he swoops down from his perch. When he resurfaces on the other side of the tree I notice his prey has narrowly escaped his claws.
Lookout
I push my way toward the cornfield through blustery winds of forty to fifty miles per hour. Snow blowing across my face and hands as honking prominently fills my ears. Geese are flying above my head while others are foraging for food below. I inch my way forward, closer. There, can you see it? A lone goose stands as lookout, a sentry, before me. I pause before bringing the camera to my left eye and purchasing a memory.
Winter's Edge
Labels:
flight,
fototudes,
freedom,
naquillity,
red tailed hawk,
snowy field,
winter
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A red tailed hawk sits at winter's edge just off the highway's shoulder. It's watching each car as it passes. Somewhere between brevity and caution it allows us a glimpse of it's beauty. It's a fleeting moment between human and hawk. When it's time for him to go I pan my camera in sync with his flight. It's freedom balanced on air as his shadow stalks the snowy field below.
Geese In Flight
Labels:
flight,
flighty,
fototudes,
geese,
geese in flight,
naquillity,
snow,
winter
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Today I'm sharing the geese in flight above the corn field. They decided to circle several times before landing somewhere amidst the crowd below. If you look closely you'll see the snow is falling. Hope everyone is well.
Foraging Geese
Labels:
closeup,
corn field,
foraging,
foraging geese,
fototudes,
geese,
naquillity,
panorama,
snow,
three hundred,
winter
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Yesterday I put together a panorama of geese in a field but it didn't show the detail online as well as I would have liked. So today I'm sharing a single closeup shot of the foraging geese in this winter covered corn field. When my husband looked at the panorama on my computer he thought there may have been over three hundred geese out there.
Field of Geese
This morning I had the good fortune of spotting hundreds of geese in this open field. They were foraging beneath freshly fallen snow for food. I can't remember a time when I've seen so many geese in one place other than possibly the lake. Even then I don't believe there were hundreds. I'm hoping everyone can click the panorama to enlarge the view. It's certainly a sight to take in.
Wood Bridge
Labels:
fototudes,
naquillity,
snow,
winter,
wood bridge
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I've been wanting to share this scene with you for some time now. It always seems to draw my eye when we pass by. So, the last time we went shopping I had my camera on the ready. I shot this while my husband was driving about 60 mph. Please forgive any blurring. I don't know if this is just a fancy drainage system or part of a park or something but I like it a lot. Hope everyone is having a great day.
Red Bellied Woodpecker
Labels:
fototudes,
naquillity,
red bellied woodpecker,
winter
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Yesterday I heard this red bellied woodpecker sounding in the distance while watching two squirrels squirrelin' around. I didn't know I had captured him/ her until I came back inside. You'll have to click on the photograph to enlarge. It's perched on the long, bare tree to the left. Isn't it adorable?
Winter Garden
Labels:
fototudes,
naquillity,
northern mockingbird,
winter,
winter garden
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She sits above her winter garden
On nature's tightrope, lingering
Among bare trees and pines.
She's balancing her plumpness
Against winter's cold hand
As she turns her face right, then left.
Below her lies a slushy footpath
Outlined with old and new berries.
Somewhere between gray skies
And evening's close I watch
Her careering flight back home.
white capped sparrow
Labels:
fototudes,
hide and seek,
naquillity,
pine tree,
snow,
white capped sparrow,
winter
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hide and seek
inside pine tree branches
white capped sparrow
Yesterday while bundled up in layers of warm clothes I took my camera outside in the snow. This white capped sparrow was hiding inside the pine tree branches. Luckily he posed for me long enough.
I want to say thank you to Kat and Lisa for their sharp eyes as they helped me identify the bird as a white capped sparrow not a downy woodpecker.
Hormonal Winter
Labels:
fototudes,
hormonal winter,
naquillity,
snow,
winter
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a winter- chilled yesternight
wined the vitreous trees
once-stark below the
lank skies ceiling
and found morning limpid
with a lacquered white varnish.
The above was written from an online magnetic poetry kit. I thought it fit my picture well and whose view is from my front porch. We've received 5 1/2- 6 inches of ice/ snow in the last two days and I'm hearing we are due to get more.
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