One of the best IATB ever, I and the Bird #79: The Third Anniversary Edition is up and available for your reading enjoyment. This edition, I read every one of the contributed posts and enjoyed them all.
There are a wide variety of reasons for bird blogging, but recurring themes of community, sharing, and contributing, are heard throughout the submissions. “I and the Bird” is a particularly apt series title, as it seems we all enjoy, marvel at, and can’t wait to share our marvelous connection with these creatures of the air.
Our relationships vary, from the sublime
to the ridiculous
but the love shows through in our words and pictures every time we post.
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nina – I certainly agree. I’ve enjoyed your posts about the chainsaw wrens.
shellmo – thanks for stoppingf by!
Watch out for those flamingos –
As often as we’ve put up boxes in the yard, never have wrens in boxes.
Our wrens from under the chainsaw have fledged–the first time I was right there to see it happen. Such sweet characters!
abraham – I don’t like concrete geese, either!
Thank you for visiting my birds blog and for your comments about the unconscious young grackle.
I do, indeed, worry about birds and squirrels and rabbits and all those animals that come into my backyard where I live.
I just saw the squirrel with the bad hair do a minute or two ago and fed him. He looked amazing and quite different. I am thinking that his coming here when he looked terrible and eating raw, shelled, peanuts had something to do with his welfare. Anyway. I was very pleased to see how nice he looked today.
I don’t much like concere geese dressed in aprons on front porches and would rather have the real thing so the red, plastic flamingos are in the cement category. LOL
Thanks again.
Abraham Lincoln
Brookville, Ohio
Jim, thanks! I’ll have to post more about the flamingos some day.
Thanks for your visit to my SkyWatch Friday post, Wren.
I’m on the road and in the field doing another photo trip chasing the bloom of our Rosebay Rhododendron (white blossoms) in the northern area of the Southern Appalachian mountains, and with lodging that does not have the most reliable internet service. I won’t be home again for a few more days yet, but I did finally develop and upload a few images to update my July 7 Rhododendron post.
Sunrise this morning was a washout, literally, with locally heavy thunderstorms–looks like the rain won’t ease up until later morning so I’m going to breakfast soon. But I wanted to try and get around to all who visited my SWF, and others too while I still have good internet access. So, please forgive this cut & paste with a small bit of personalization added–I do appreciate your visit and your comments.
Nice SWF post you had yesterday. I like all the bird photos on your blog. You know, I’ve seen so many of those lawn flamingos and I’d like to find and destroy the master molds used to make them. Well, at least the ones in your photo are not pink!
Jim
thanks, missy – I’ll reply by email. in the meantime, I know some other michigan bloggers check my posts sometimes, so maybe they’ll see your note here as well.
Hi. Just stopped by to invite you to a Michigan Bloggers Party. I couldn’t find an email address, but check out this post.
http://meanwhile-backattheranch.blogspot.com/2008/07/calling-all-michigan-bloggers.html
Hope to see you there!
Vicki, I had flamingos in Virginia. When we put that house on the market, the real estate agent made a comment about it being brave of us. I figured we didn’t want to sell the house to anyone who didn’t appreciate the irony.
Up early, with time to mosey about so I’ll head over to IATB from here. Love those birdies- thanks for the Friday heads up.(Do you really have pink flamingoes in your garden? lol)
So- Saturday Shopping Challenge. If you find locally made flip flops, more power to you. I responded to your comment at my place, saying, “Try Masts.” But you have a lovely market right there on Detroit street…let me know if you want a link.
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