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Bird Weekly – Photo Challenge – Common Birds in Your Area This Time of Year
Welcome to Bird Weekly Week #54 – Common birds in your area this time of year.
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Bird Weekly Round-Up – Week #53
Week #53 challenge was Birds beginning with a “H” (if a bird has more than one word of the name, you can use it as long as it begins with a “H”, ie: Hermit Thrush or Great Blue Heron) (7/2/21)
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Bird Weekly – Photo Challenge – Birds beginning with a “H”
Bird Weekly #53, Birds beginning with a “H” (if a bird has more than one word of the name, you can use it as long as it begins with a “H”, (ie: Hermit Thrush or Great Blue Heron) (7/2/21)
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Bird Weekly Round-Up – Week #52
Week #52 challenge was Birds with long tail feathers. (6/18/21). Guest hosted by Sarah at Travel With Me.
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Bird Weekly – Photo Challenge – Birds with LOng Tails
Week #52 Bird Weekly features birds with long tail feathers.
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Bird Weekly Round-Up – Week #51
Week #51 challenge was Birds with stripes, spots or freckles. (6/11/21)
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Sunday Stills – Pink – 06.13.21
When you have 2 daughters (grown now) and 3 granddaughters, there is a lot of pink in your life. From Disney princesses to Hello Kitty and beyond, life is one big pink plastered party!
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Bird Weekly Birthday
On June 12, 2020, Bird Weekly was launched into the blog world. Since then, we have seen some incredible birds from all over the world. I find this to be a fun and rewarding challenge.
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Bird Weekly – Photo Challenge – Birds with Stripes, Spots or Freckles
Week #51 brings us to birds with stripes, spots or freckles. I thought of this challenge because I was a little freckle faced kid.
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Bird Weekly Round-Up – Week #50
Week #50 challenge was Two or more bird species in one photograph. (6/4/21).
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Thursday Trio – Whitetail
White-tailed Deer roaming the grounds at Princess Place Preserve in Palm Coast, Florida. Princess Place is a 1,500 acre preserve with a list of amenities.
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Ghostly Spittle – Haiku
At home with the ghosts Sounds of weeping in the hall Trapped murmurs haunt us.
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Sunday Stills – Celestial – 06.06 .21
Yesterday, which was Sunday, 6/6, D-Day for any WWII enthusiasts, Frank and I took a day trip to St. Simons Island, Georgia. I had been stuck in the house for over a week.
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FOTD – Tweety & Lily – Haiku
Lily is in bloom Tweety sniffs at her beauty Close by end of day.
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Last Photo – May 2021
The last photo from my Sony A6300 was taken on 5-25-2021 of the May supermoon rising up above behind our house. Seemed a little spooky coming up over and through the trees.
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Bird Weekly – Photo Challenge – More than one Bird Species in a Photo
Welcome to Week #50 of the Bird Weekly Photo Challenge. Week #50 challenge is Two or more bird species in one photograph. (6/4/21) Your choice of birds.
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Bird Weekly Round-Up – Week #49
Week #49 challenge was Black and white photos of birds with a spot of color (technical challenge). Your choice of birds for week of 5/28/21
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Bird Weekly – Photo Challenge – Birds Using Selective Color
Week #49 challenge is birds using selective color with most of the photo being monochrome, black and white or sepia tone. Your choice of birds.
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Bird Weekly Round-Up – Week #48
Week #48 challenge was BIRDS BEGINNING WITH A “G” IN THE TITLE
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Selective Color Tricks #2 – Photoshop 2021
Selective coloring is a popular post-processing technique where most of a photo is converted to black and white, but some parts are left in color.
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Photography Tips & Selective Color
Camera Raw is an image developer similar to when we used to get our 35mm film developed after shooting off a role. Photoshop is the image editor, but there are editing tools in Camera Raw that are quite useful and can be quicker than Photoshop.
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Selective Color Tricks #1 – Corel PaintShop Pro 2021
Selective coloring is a popular post-processing technique where most of a photo is converted to black and white, but some parts are left in color.
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Bird Weekly – Photo Challenge – Birds beginning with a “G” In The Title
Week #48 challenge is birds beginning with a “G” in the title (if a bird has more than one word of the name, you can use it as long as it begins with a “G”, ie: Green Heron or Common Gallinule).
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Bird Weekly Round-Up – Week #47
Week #47 challenge was Birds with a color in their name.
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Quote – Healing – Week #25
The feature image is the balance between nature and creativity. It is a Zen Garden that Frank made that is interactive for anyone who wants to take it apart and put it together through their own meditation.
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#Write Photo – Tower – Haiku
#WritePhoto challenge – Tower Hello Rapunzel! Are you there my dear beauty? Allow me to see.
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Quote – Beauty – Mother’s Day – Week #24
The feature image is the balance between nature and creativity. It is a Zen Garden that Frank made that is interactive for anyone who wants to take it apart and put it together through their own meditation.
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Water Water Everywhere #78 – Greenway
We went exploring in the the northern central part of Florida. We just followed brown signs to different county parks, wildlife management areas and this incredible view where you would put your boat in at Marjorie Harris Carr Cross Florida Greenway that winds into Lake Ocklawaha near Orange Springs, Florida.
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Bird Weekly – Photo Challenge – Birds With Color in their Name
Welcome to Week #47 of the Bird Weekly Photo Challenge. Week #47 challenge is birds with a color in their name such as a Yellow Warbler or Great Blue Heron. As long as it is a color from the color wheel in the title of the name, it will qualify for this challenge. White is…
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Bird Weekly Round-Up – Week #46
Week #46 challenge was Birds perched on anything. Perched is defined as: alight or at rest. Well, we know that while birds certainly perch to rest, they also perch to eat and perch to take a look around as they are always on guard, looking for predators.
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Thursday Trio – Ibises
A family of Ibises were hanging out at the boat ramp at Lake Deaton in The Villages, Florida. We had stopped here on our way back to Jacksonville from Tampa on Monday. My camera settings were set for close up shots so the other two birds were not in focus. The two adults were in…
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Bird Weekly – Photo Challenge – Birds Perched Up
Welcome to Week #46 of the Bird Weekly Photo Challenge. Week #46 challenge is birds perched up on anything.
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Bird Weekly Round-Up – Week #45
I guess Week #43 Baby Birds proved to be a hard week for everyone. Thank you for being patient with me as I try to recover from the past two days. I hope to post Week #44 Bird Weekly today by end of day.
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Quote – Lighthouse – Week #23
The feature image is the top of the St. Marks Lighthouse at the St. Marks Wildlife Refuge just south of the Florida state capitol of Tallahassee. I am sharing a few of the Florida lighthouses that I have visited over the years. It is not the total list, but some of my favorites.
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Sunday Stills – Water – 05.02 .21
With Florida being a peninsula and water on three sides of it, the St. Johns River that runs north (uphill) and the Hillsborough River running through Tampa Bay, plus Lake Okeechobee, numerous lakes and springs, Florida is the place for water!
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Last Photo – April 2021
The last photo taken on my IPhone was the fruits of our labor from picking strawberries at an Organic Farm called Frog Song Organics in Hawthorne, Florida. These berries are so good and the chocolate covered strawberries that evening was perfect for our anniversary!
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SQUARES – Fresh & Bright Salad
One of my favorite things to eat is a fresh Caprese Salad or Caprese Sandwich. This salad consisted of bright Romaine lettuce, fresh mozzarella, Campari tomatoes, fresh basil and an Italian Vinaigrette.
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Bird Weekly – Photo Challenge – Birds In Flight
Week #45 challenge is birds in Flight. Birds are hard to capture in flight.
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SQUARES – Bright Berry
This bright red heart-shaped strawberry was hanging on it’s vine begging for me to pick it. I did and within a day, it was a deep dark red and tasty!
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Thursday Trio – Mergansers
Three Common Mergansers swam next to our inflatable kayak that we took to Grand Teton National Park. There were actually six in total, but I was only able to get 3 in the frame at a time. They were close, the boat was rocking and I was trying not to lose my paddle while taking…
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Quote – Balance – Week #22
The feature image is the balance between nature and creativity. It is a Zen Garden that Frank made that is interactive for anyone who wants to take it apart and put it together through their own meditation.
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A-Z Challenge – U is for Upland Game Bird
Upland Game Birds are a select species of birds in the Phasianidae family with the exception of the Northern Bobwhite and Scaled Quail that are in the Odontophoridae family, plus the Plain Chachalaca in the Cracidae family.
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A-Z Challenge – T is for Titmouse
The Tufted Titmouse is a small gray bird with a loud voice that echoes through the forest that it inhabits. They are frequent visitors to feeders.
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SQUARES – Merry and Bright
Do you realize that it is exactly 8 months until Christmas! In about 6 1/2 to 7 months, we will all be in the thrills of the holiday season.
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A-Z Challenge – S is for Sanderling
Sanderlings are small plump sandpipers. In breeding colors, they have rusty, black and white mottling.
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SQUARES – Brighter Times
Koi Ponds are always intriguing to me. Often times there is a waterfall of some sort which makes this not only eye pleasing but provides a zen feeling to one’s aura while observing the brightly colored fish.
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Bird Weekly – Photo Challenge – Birds that Begin with an “F”
Welcome to Week #44 of the Bird Weekly Photo Challenge. Week #44 challenge is Birds beginning with the letter “F” (if a bird has more than one word of the name, you can use it as long as it begins with a “F”, ie: Ferruginous Hawk or House Finch)
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Bird Weekly Round-Up – Week #43
I guess Week #43 Baby Birds proved to be a hard week for everyone. Thank you for being patient with me as I try to recover from the past two days. I hope to post Week #44 Bird Weekly today by end of day.
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A-Z Challenge – R is for Roseate Spoonbill
Roseate Spoonbills are pale pink and white birds with a patch of brighter pink on the shoulders and rump. They are so named because of their spoon-shaped bill. Crustaceans and other aquatic invertebrates contain pigments called carotenoids that help turn their feathers pink after they eat them. The more they eat, the brighter pink in…
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SQUARES – Bright Eyes
Osprey enjoy fresh fish. Sometimes from great heights, they will dive to pluck fish out of the water, shake off a bit and fly away in one fluid movement.
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