Fall Dabblers
Look below the surface, and you’ll see a different world. That is what dabbling ducks do when tipping their heads forward to feed in the shallows. It was a case […]
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Stepping Into Fall
I know it’s always said that spring is the time of renewal. But I think fall it a time of rethinking and retooling. It’s the time rake leaves and paint […]
Spring Ducks
Sometimes when I walk I’m so absorbed in my own thoughts, that I fail to make better use of my eyes and ears. Yes, I can’t fail to smell the […]
Images of Winter
The season of blustery winds shaking bare trees and blowing branches across snow covered trails is passing at last. This winter was a roller coaster of weather warming up and […]
Winter Northern Shovelers
The sunny weather drew me to the prairies, marshes and ponds to pass groves of trees and over bridges. The warmer weather has also drawn an increasing variety of birds. […]
Winter Ducks
Winter has grabbed on hold again with two icy hands to remind me it’s not gone yet. I sit on a tree stump watching a Mallard drake and hen race […]
Quote for the Week
Winter Sunbathers
The crispness of winter chills the air as animals, nature and I await the Spring. Any sunbeams are a welcome oasis of warmth in the frosty landscape. I watch ducks […]
Quote for the Week
“There is… a deeper sense of understanding, accomplishment and downright pleasure that accompanies the ability to look at a knot of birds on the horizon and say with conviction, ‘Mallards,’ […]
Summer Duck Pond
As summer edges to the end of its season, I notice more ducks filling up a pond as I walk past. They’re stopping off for a watery rest along a […]
Spring Bath
I see lots of waterfowl on lakes, canals and rivers here when I’m hiking. But on this hot day with summer temperatures and humidity, that ducks made this branch filled […]
Winter Swimmers
Icy, frozen below zero degrees temperature setting temperatures…a Midwest winter. Yet, people are out ice fishing, sledding and there are some out swimming. There not members of the polar bear […]
