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Steve’s Bird Of The Day #38.
Hi everyone! Oops, this is late, usually I schedule these posts so they come out at a certain time. I didn’t hit the schedule button. Sigh. I’m still learning, usually I just write and publish. Here we are with the female “common goldeneye”, there are two in this pic, with the brown heads and gray bodies, with one male. The female nests in holes in trees, usually left over from a pileated woodpecker, just like the merganser. So they can be quite high off the ground again and once again the little ones jump out of the nest and onto the ground, no matter what the height, then follow the mother to water, usually a lake or river that has abundant food and clear water. The female lays generally 6 to 9 eggs. I hope you have a great day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
©2021 Steve McLeod.
Art In Nature #11.
Hello once again everyone! Here we are with more art in nature today, hopefully you will enjoy today’s selection. There are so many things that really would qualify as art, it just depends on what we see and what we like. I generally like to go for oddities that probably no one else would think of, but that makes it interesting to me.
Every time you go for a walk, or go to the park, or perhaps a drive in the country, always check to see what you might be able to find, you might be surprised at how much there is out there and so much beauty in things that we usually just pass by without noticing them. Maybe next time when you’re on a picnic…hmm, do people still go on picnics? Personally I think they’re fun and a great family activity. And a great time to look for things, like art in nature.
Or looking for wildflowers (but please, don’t pick the wildflowers, just take a picture and leave them so others can enjoy them too, and it will then ensure that they are around for years to come), or birds, and see how many different kinds you can find and identify. I think I might start a wildflower series to replace my bird of the day at the end of the month. Oops, I’m getting off topic again.
But always be on the lookout for those little, or not so little, oddities that make up art in nature all around us. I guess even wildflowers would fit in that too but having them in their own series I think would be nice too. What do you think, would it be a good idea? Oops, there I go again, getting off topic. Anyway, enjoy the pics today, have a great day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
©2021 Steve McLeod.
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