I really can't say for sure that this frog was having a bubble bath, but that's what it looks like!
Durin high tide at St. Andrews -by-the-sea,in New Brunswick, Canada this red sandstone formation is covered by the salt waters of Passamaquoddy Bay. When the tide recedes we are gifted with a lovely walking area on the ocean floor. Please click to enlarge and you can see where to walk.
Tree Swallow gang. Now there's four at the Tree Swallow house. Are the two perched on the post babies? If so is there still one still in the bird house? it seems the adult has food for it still! What a busy location this is! Please click to enlarge.
These pictures were taken this morning in my backyard. We had thought there was only one baby Tree Swallow left in the bird house. We were wrong. There are two. Only after they have gone will I be able to comfortably be able to walk around our back yard. The adult birds are very wary and alert. While standing on our deck taking these pictures, they were diving at me, shouting angrily at me in bird language. We hope these babies get enough courage to leave today! I want the priviledge of walking peacefully around my backyard my yard back.
The adult Tree Swallow is very attentive in its feeding duties.
It was much easier getting its picture when it was standing still.
As I had been driving along a gravel dirt road I kept seeing White Admiral butterflies everywhere. So when passing a little dirt side road I saw two on the ground at its entrance. I stopped, got out of my car and approached them, they stayed where they were and didn't fly away. I like those kinds of nature sightings when I am out with my camera looking for something to take a picture of.
Above a White Admiral butterfly. I hope I can find something interesting out there today, I'll be looking. Its a nice sunny day right now. Have a great day everyone!
The first indication to me of nesting Tree Swallows was when I saw a swallow fly toward and enter this electrical box(shown above)
he has started to hold a plastic flower pot over his head to avoid their possible collision.. One also dove at me one day and came very close as I heard its cry close by my ear This has never happened before in all the years that we have had Tree Swallows nesting there. I decided to watch for the return of the swallow I had seen enter the hole in the electrical box and wondered if I would be attacked while sitting there in my car. "No",nothing like that happened as I watched one Tree Swallow feed the one that appeared in the opening of the nest box.
In the picture above is the swallow that was being fed; a baby? Its quite adult looking don't you think?
That's all for now as the adult bird (the feeder) leaves.
As I had gone outside to get a picture of my husband and his 'protection strategy', this Tree Swallow at our Tree Swallow bird house, flew directly up into my face. Its a bit of an unsettling experience. They do not make actual contact, or impact but in my case it could cause me to move quickly and lose my balance and fall from the door step where I was standing.
When her rushing back and forth activity had calmed down a bit she started vocalizing loudly and
all of a sudden I could see nine little baby ducks appear and start swimming towards the adult female. "Don't worry Mama Duck, I won't hurt your babies, all I want is their pictures", As I watched the little babies line up in twos, side by side they followed the mother duck as she
In the photo above you can see one little duck that has fallen behind. This little one last straggler continued behind throughout the escaping process but made it into the drainage pipe with the other babies and it remained with the duck family.
Outdoor Wednesday is a meme where you can vicariously view part of the magnificence of the great outdoors such as the photo above of the female Wood Duck and her young family.
I find these birds delightful! It wasn't until I downloaded these pictures from an old floppy 3 1/2 disk that I realized what a treasure they are and remembering that I had never posted them I thought a ha! Ruby Tuesday pictures.
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The soft , delicate blue of the Spiderwort above suggests a tranquility of beauty in my garden. Erly this morning I took this picture in my wet garden after a heavy rain yesterday evening. I have thisSpiderwort speciest in three varieties, pink, white and blue. They are all beautiful.
This closeup of s blue lupine with the use of s poster edge filter enhances the oval shapes which make up its blossoms. I also see that I have the blue blossoms of Veronica are now in bloom in my garden and the Iris blossoms have detoriated away.
A Florida sunset.
These silhouettes taken from Sunset Beach at Knight's Key are almost duplicates of the pendant jewelery which I have.
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