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" “The land was defended and won by age-old ceremonies and fierce battle…. Their conflicts with each other and their neighbors, their luck with their wives and devotion to their babies… the fortunes of their sons and daughters, grandchildren and great grandchildren—all these were watched season in and season out until tragedy overtook them.”
Surprisingly, this passage is not referring to Game of Thrones. It instead describes the lives of song sparrows!
Renowned ornithologist Margaret Morse Nice (1883-1974) wrote this in the opening pages of her book The Watcher at the Nest (1939), which recounts her experiences studying song sparrows in her Ohio backyard in the 1930s. She conducted these groundbreaking studies at home while raising a family of five children." blognature.org
The Battles of Song Sparrows: How a Scientific Outsider Changed How We Study Birds
By Joe Smith PhD
Wherever you happen to be, there's always something to snap. May not be 'unique' or 'amazing', but 'curious' or just 'nice to look at' is sufficient reason to point the camera or pull out the phone :)
Sometimes you find in your backyard those wonderful things that make you remember old times. But you can also find some other things, unknown objects belonging to unknown people. How this thing ended up in my backyard? And then... the magic: you make up a story as an answer. You choose those amazing threads from your imagination and braid a legend, a door to old times that now, just like that, become yours.
This is Bunnykins, our backyard wild rabbit, munching on some lawn grass. This spring she established her nest under the grape arbor, which collapsed during a strong spring rainstorm. Her litter of little bunnies are on their own now and are wandering around our lawn and field, but Bunnykins likes to stay close to our house, even taking naps on our back porch. Backyard wildlife.
We have now had well over 500mm rain in the last 5 weeks, and the fungi are loving it! Here are a few little mushrooms from the backyard.
It was a sunrise that makes you put down your coffee and go outside on a below zero morning. I hope I did it justice :)
For the flowers are great blessings.
For the flowers have their angels, even the words of God’s creation.
For the flower glorifies God and the root parries the adversary.
For there is a language of flowers.
For the flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.
-Christopher Smart (from Benjamin Brittens' 'Rejoice Ine The Lamb'
The first measurable snow of the season today and this Black-capped Chickadee found the top of one of the Norway pines I had planted in my backyard last month - just for this reason 😁.
Tiny backyard made for @newelementary competition “Construction Constructions”. Pleasure to get runner up prize. Construction parts used: 2x 18943 Technic Digger Bucket 5 x 7 x 4 1/2 Clamshell with Pin Hole and Axle Hole, 1x 43903 LegoTread with 20 Treads Small, 17x 4006 Minifigure, Utensil Tool Spanner Wrench / Screwdriver, 3x 64450 Windscreen 6 x 4 x 3 1/3 Roll Cage, 3873 LegoTechnic, Link Tread, 57518 Technic, Link Tread Wide with 2 Pin Holes. FIND THEM ALL 😃
A glimpse of a backyard in Romania during a recent trip….I love finding clotheslines with all their temporary possessions blowing in the wind or hanging limply from the line. It’s getting hard to find them in our neighborhoods today, but I was rewarded with many photo ops in Eastern Europe!
Peeking through vine and passion into late afternoon sun ....
The grapevine has already little green grapes and the passion plant (Passiflora) flowers abundantly ....
Happy Monochrome Bokeh Thursday - HMBT!
My backyard friends came to visit me last month! Living on a bluff brings me a variety of wildlife throughout the year. As you can tell, the changing of the leaves had just started, still have a ways to go before more beautiful colors are seen, if the rain doesn’t damage them first! Photo images credited to Vickie Lynne Klinkhammer of Vickielynne Photography and Designs(VLP&Designs)
While doing some backyard birdwatching the other day, it was just so hot there wasn't much going on, so I decided to close the window and put down my camera.
Moments later this hawk swooped down and got one of my doves. It happened so quickly it took a few moments to register what I'd just seen. While I watched, it started plucking the feathers so I grabbed my camera to get a few shots.
Just goes to show you never know who's going to show up next. Or when.
** Taken through the window so not as clear as I'd like.
A homey grassy little stage area surrounded by deckchairs in the Queensland Performing Arts Centre Backyard.
Backyard visitors. This is a pink and grey galah. very common in this area. The colourful bird in foreground (out of focus) is a rainbow lorikeet. A beautiful and feisty bird which unfortuantely is an introduced species and bit of a pest for the endemic species such as the galah and other parrots. The galahs are real characters and very intelligent (like most parrots).
I took these photos to try out my new telephoto zoom lense. A christmas present that I will use when winter comes again and the surf is up.
House Sparrow [Passer domesticus] in his best light
Happy New Year Everyone!
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This photo captures the tranquil beauty of a well-maintained backyard in a suburb north of Atlanta on the last day of April. The scene features a lush, green lawn. A stone retaining wall provides a rustic backdrop, complementing the natural greenery of the trees and shrubs. The brick and stone facade of the house, with its arched window and downspout, adds a charming architectural element to the serene setting. The vibrant shrubbery and the towering tree create a peaceful, inviting atmosphere, perfect for enjoying the mild spring weather.
For the flowers are great blessings.
For the flowers have their angels, even the words of God’s creation.
For the flower glorifies God and the root parries the adversary.
For there is a language of flowers.
For the flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.
-Christopher Smart (from Benjamin Brittens' 'Rejoice In The Lamb'
For the flowers are great blessings.
For the flowers have their angels, even the words of God’s creation.
For the flower glorifies God and the root parries the adversary.
For there is a language of flowers.
For the flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.
-Christopher Smart (from Benjamin Brittens' 'Rejoice Ine The Lamb'