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Saturday, March 12, 2011

Fickle me~I’ve fallen in Love again ♥

Howdee all,

Yes..call me Fickle

I have fallen in Love Again..

♥

This time with a Peacock!

He and about five other males live in the campground we are in…I have counted around ten female…I suspect there are more.

Peacock Display

by David Wagoner

He approaches her, trailing his whole fortune,

Perfectly cocksure, and suddenly spreads

The huge fan of his tail for her amazement.

Each turquoise and purple, black-horned, walleyed quill

Comes quivering forward, an amphitheatric shell

Peacocks @Magnolia Park, Apopka Florida_113

For his most fortunate audience: her alone.

He plumes himself. He shakes his brassily gold

Wings and rump in a dance, lifting his claws

Stiff-legged under the great bulge of his breast. Peacocks @Magnolia Park, Apopka Florida_116

And she strolls calmly away, pecking and pausing,

Not watching him, astonished to discover

All these seeds spread just for her in the dirt.

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So….Females have been ignoring the males~

from what I have seen so far..

But Not me…

I stare…

And StareHow can so much vibrant color be on one bird?

I follow the bird..and see the feathers capture the light…As the bird now captures my heart…♥

♥♥♥♥ Crabby ♥♥♥♥

♥

I hope he is

♥ alive and well ♥

~This is a short video I took of crabby~

Jeff wanted to get him to move to his home~so he touched its back~that only made it move and stop again..finally Jeff was able to make Crabby grab onto a stick and we placed Crabby in his hole~

Out of the harm of the Hungry Gulls. see the full post here

♥♥♥♥♥♥

I am deeply saddened by the devastating quake and aftermath in Japan and other areas. I hope that many are found

♥ alive and well ♥

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Crossley ID guide ~Not for me!

Howdee all,

The Crossley ID guide to Eastern Birds

If you’re a birder you have read the hype..You may have read many of the reviews..

If you don’t already have a copy~you want to get your greedy little bird loving hands on it.

Well You can have it! I don’t want it!

Let me clarify..before the whole birding community gets on my case…and people start hurling their Crossleys at me..Ouch..that would hurt!

I really do want a Crossley guide~I want to stare lovingly into those beautiful bird plates..and ponder each little bird photo..…I just don’t want the Book!

You see.. I live full time in 400 square feet of space. We try not to accumulate stuff.

I don’t want that big monster of a book weighing down our Homey..…Did you ever see the movie the Long Long Trailer….Lucille Balls husband in the movie dumping off the rocks that she collected one by one from a loaded down trailer. See video at about six minutes.

Yeah, I try to avoid that…

I am waiting patiently~~because

I want the Crossley app. for IPod and IPad..

I know many of you like Books…You want to be able to caress the book firmly in you hands and feel the weight of the book as you turn the pages and smell the print and kiss the cover....or something like that…:)

Well not me, I want and need to have all my books in one basket. Simplicity works best for me. I might feel differently if I had a house with a wall of bookshelves….but I don’t.

I have a small IPod touch now..and will be getting an IPad in the future..they are my bookshelves…and I can carry my bookshelf with me wherever I go. I like that!

So~No..I don’t want the Crossley ID guide in book form…

I hope they make an app for that! :)

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Summer in Winter…

Howdee all,

The below photo was not taken last summer…

it was taken last week…Grasshopper of Florida's Winter…

And what are these?Some sort of eggs?~cocoons? This was also taken here in Florida..near a small pond. Brackish water.Now this looks similar to above..but these are some sort of seed pods..

Again..I don’t know what kind…and now looking back at them I wish I had taken a pod…decorative purposes…More cool seed pods…Lovely, prickly seed holding baskets…Jeff and I took a few seeds thinking someone might want one~Though, I don’t know who would want to grow this prickly basket…Flowers have been blooming here for a while now…I don’t think flowers ever stop blooming in Florida…It feels like summer~

Temps have been in the high 70s and 80s for the past few weeks..

Short and Tee shirt and sandals weather…A strange feeling…..

Gulf Fritillary

~Summer in Winter~

Common Buckeye ~thanks Mariel for your IDs

I kinda Like it..:)

Jeff and I have talked about where to go next winter~ Its certainly tempting to come back to the warmth of Florida….Sunshine..great birds…summer in winter….

The mountains in Arizona are calling my name..hiking till I lose the ten pounds that don’t want to come off……Cactus and my spark bird~Vermillion flycatcher.

Big Bend and the Rio Grande Valley are also considerations..…We had a wonderful time last winter there…..

So..we haven't decided…might have to flip a coin…

Any suggestions? ~warm places only:)

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Here we are..until tomorrow

Howdee all,

Jeff and I are now in Mims, Florida. We arrived last week to have new awnings put on. After ten years the fabric was old and had many holes and rips.

We stayed with the same color scheme….just a bit different as it has a tweed look to it...

Here Homey sits on our campsite at Seasons in the Sun…

Our favorite RV park so far when staying in Titusville area…its not too…sterile..meaning….they left some nice trees in most of the areas..there are two areas of the campground we don’t like because it is pretty much all pavement and few trees…Here is a sunset view over the campground and tennis courts.

There is a Barred Owl in the park…I hear it at night…(sigh) I love it..…We enjoyed our visit south…but its time to work our way north again…

Jeff and I on the beach on Hutchinson Island.

Where we had great views of the Magnificent Frigatebird…

A bit far for my point and shoot…

We also were lucky to be in the right place at the right time to catch the space shuttle Discovery’s Last launch

While staying at Jensen Beach we were close to my cousin and her family…Her daughter cut my hair shorter than I have had in quite a while..and I am liking it…

She did a lovely job with the cut and color…

My hair dries so quick now..usually it takes hours…..Thanks Ashley!

We leave this RV park tomorrow and Tuesday we have more work done on Homey…

Don’t know how long that will take…but after, we plan on heading toward Ocala..

and norther..

Friday, March 4, 2011

Friday Feathers~Common Moorhen

Howdee all,

Common Moorhen..

The Common Moorhen has long toes that makes it possible to walk on soft mud and floating vegetation. The toes have no lobes or webbing to help in swimming, but the moorhen is a good swimmer anyway. via All about Birds

One of the most common water birds I see here in Florida….Coot being the most common..Some of these photos were taken at Green Cay..Green Cay is One of my favorite places to bird when we stay in Palm beach area…I love the bright green algae and duck weed…the ability to get close to birds at Green Cay makes my point and shoot camera happy!