Saturday, August 29, 2009

The excitement of birding in late summer...

A lovely Monarch butterfly.
Ah, beautiful August. The birds have raised their families and some are preparing to migrate to warmer climes. Wildflowers and late bloomers abound. Warm and wonderful, the trees and shrubs are full of leaves and life. Somewhere...birds...but I can't seem to find them!

A tiny Summer Azure, the marsh is full of them flitting about.
Mr. B. Bumble taking care of beezness...

We saw plenty of dragonflies, Common Green Darners, Halloween Pennants, Pondhawks
and of course these three and I don't have my guide at the BirdMobile...oh well...
Hey that looks like a Lady Bug on the right of the leaf!

Who am I?

Hmmm...

We spotted this Muskrat trying to get away as fast as possible. I think he was having a bad fur day and didn't want to be seen.

Look closely! There are TWO Leopard Frogs in this photo.

A lone Bull Frog just chillin' out in the marsh.
Have you noticed the lack of bird photos in this post...me too...

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Blow some bubbles...


I'm still angry about the issues I brought up in my last post! Not to mention all of the other political posturing and name calling that's going on. Morons.
Why can't these people just do their job?
So, anyway...when you're angry, blowing bubbles will make you giggle.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Extinction...

Take a careful look at the photo above taken by Laurie a couple of years ago.

I've been reading more and more articles about Mountain Top Removal Mining over the past few months. Not to mention the insane rants from the "Conservative" Republicans that have been all over the tv, radio and the print media. I guess it must be true if they say it, all of us 'tree huggin' Liberals' are actually Socialist-Nazi-Commie reactionaries out to destroy the free world. Oh, sorry, I forgot to mention racist also.

I guess we're supposed to fall in line with the corporate world and agree to the continued use of "Clean Coal." Close your eyes when you see those mountains blasted apart and leveled because it "creates jobs for the American people." It actually creates fewer jobs than traditional 'Dirty Coal' mining, but that's not important. Profit is important.

Ignore the waste that will be scraped away and pushed into any stream or river in the valley. Ignore the trees and plant life that will be bulldozed into oblivion.
Ignore the birds, reptiles, insects, mammals and the people that lived there for generations. It's being done for our benefit, the good of the world.

If these "Conservatives" would only use half the energy actually conserving something that they are currently using bad mouthing everything they don't like, imagine what could be done. Solar power, wind power, hydrogen power, there's so much that could be done. But, who needs facts when you have an imagination? Why bother taking care of the planet and your fellow man when there's a profit to be made.

Truly, what is the point at all?


Watch those birds carefully, the next one you see could be extinct soon.

The future of bird watching may be in a museum...