Pink Saturday ~ Aug 4, 2012 ~ "Diversity"

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Spotted in my music corner...

"Diversity"

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Junie

Over!!

June Kellum

 

(posted on FB  today_ bird update)

49 minutes ago

BTW- I found the bird, dead on a dining rm. chair! I had looked there last night but I guess it happened a little later on! :( I hope never to have to go through that adventure again!!!

 

 

 

Face Book post-Bird invasion at Junie's Place

June Kellum

 

(posted on FB)

about an hour ago

Oh, my gosh!! For the 3rd time in recent weeks, tonight after dinner I discover a BIRD flying around in my house!!! It's one of those that sometime nest in chimneys... I assume..a small blackish/brownish bird! OK-It flew into the dining room and was perched on a picture...so I left the room to tell C. and, hopefully, get some help from him! By the time I got back it was gone...I can't find it!!!

Have had 2 encounters before and the first time was able to get the bird to fly out the door-The other time I found a DEAD bird entangled in my lace curtains in the living room!!!

I'm baffled because I had secured the screen of the fireplace and thought it couldn't happen again!!! BUT it has!!! :( WOE is me!!! What am I to do? :(

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Some comments:

 

•  Bev:

   Do you have a hungry cat?
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  June Kellum ‎:) that's an idea-My Lucy has been known to catch birds....but I wouldn't have the heart to do that... It's weird and I certainly don't feel up to dealing with this , after a long day of grocery shopping!!
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    Sally:

  YIKES!!!

   

  June Kellum If I only had a net I'd have some hope of capturing it....but I don't have a net!

   
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  Pat:

   A cat will find it....just sayin'.
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  June Kellum Sally- "Yikes!" describes it well!!...to make things worse, C. is not doing well right now-(has been bad with his back trouble for weeks) so I can't expect help from him...he can barely walk. :( I'll do what I can... IF I even see it again tonight...and if I can't get it I will fall back on my mom's favorite prayer....The Serenity Prayer.
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  June Kellum Pat, I know....my cat is a good hunter too... but I hate to do that :(... I HATE this!
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  Pat:

  I know how you feel. I chased a bird around the office once with a broom because even though I opened the windows and the doors it insisted upon flying around inside the office. I hope you find the source of where it is getting in also. Remember it is just a bird...now if it were a snake I would pack my bags and find a hotel!

  
  
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  Brenda:

  I hope he/she is not making a nest. :-)
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  June Kellum Yes, Pat-just a bird....but remember Hitchcock's movie-'The Birds?" :)
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  June Kellum Brenda, I think it fell out of a nest, high up in the chimney!

  about an hour ago ·
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  June Kellum Well, I tacked sheets up on the 2 doorway openings to the living/dining rooms... so it will be confined to those rooms...I saw it again but lost sight of it again. (hoping it didn't fly out without me knowing-into the other rooms or up the stairs... :( Tomorrow we will have to take the screens off the windows (8 windows!!!!) and get it out-I hope!!! Just hope it's where I think it is...those 2 rooms! Meanwhile- I'm giving up for tonight! Dallas will be coming on soon! Gotta check that out- in spite of my bird invasion!!

   

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  ...And -nothing has changed!!

   

  Any ideas?

   

   

   Junie Rose

Camera Critters-May 19, 2012-

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A couple days ago my husband and I were riding the golf cart on the next street over from our place, when we came upon this scene.

(from Wikipedia) 

The Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura) is a bird found throughout most of the Americas. It is also known in some North American regions as the turkey buzzard (or just buzzard), and in some areas of the Caribbean as the John crow or carrion crow.

This is not one of my favorite birds to watch but this time I zoomed in on him to see what he was up to!

This is what I saw!

 (cleaning up the roadkill)

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...and he says...

"It's a dirty job but somebody has to do it!"

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As I was writing this post I got to wondering where that quote originated. I was unable to find the origin of the quote with all my searches.

Do any of you know?

Junie

Ruby Tuesday_Apr 3, 2012_Mr. Cardinal

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It's time, once again, to share our Ruby Tuesday posts.

 

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This was taken through my kitchen window so it isn't the sharpest of photos!

  However, Mr Cardinal is so handsome he never has a really bad photo shoot!

Enjoy your spring!

Junie

Ruby Tuesday 2 ~ 1-24-'12..."Cock-A-Doodle-Do"

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Mirror, mirror on the wall,

who's the cockiest bird of all?

Just watch me strut and watch me preen...

the coolest guy I've ever seen!

If you can't see that...

shame on you!

I'll leave you with my...

"Cock-A-Doodle-Do!"

(click on pic to enlarge)

 

Junie

Camera Critters~Weekend Reflections~Shadow Shot Sunday (NY bits)

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Can you believe I saw a COW in lower Manhattan??

Yep!

I did, and here she is!

I like the way those red leaves 'occupy' that top part of the picture!
  

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Central Park

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Shadow Shot Sunday

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~Me and my shadow 
and a little NY Pigeon~

(This was just after we had taken the Statue of Liberty tour.)



Junie

Ruby Tuesday_August 16, 2011

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On a recent trip to Alabama we saw another of those unique, scrap metal roosters.  This is the 4th one I've come across in recent times.  :) I find them amusing and always try to get a picture of them. 

This time we had to back-track, as I didn't see him in time to stop! LOL-My husband didn't mind....well not too much, anyway!

(He's a good guy, my Charlie!) 

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~Other Roosters I've met with my travels with Charlie~

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*This is one my daughter has in her back yard*

 

*This is one we saw in Athens, Alabama, a couple years ago*

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*This is a different kind of rooster art work (made of car bumpers) that I always look for on our trip to Al- This one is displayed in front of an art studio near Troy Alabama*

Sepia 

Junie

Weekend Reflections~ Oct 8, 2010 ~ Cedar Key bird

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Time for Weekend Reflections.

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This is a picture I took at Cedar Key  a couple years ago. I couldn't get close but with the zoom this bird and reflection look pretty good... very much West Coast Florida!

'American White Ibis'

Junie

Yard Art on Thursday~Sept 23, 2010 (another big bird)

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On our recent trip to visit our daughter's family in Orlando-imagine  my great surprise when I looked in the back yard and saw-THIS!

I was surprised and tickled because this rooster guy is so much like the one I saw in Athens, Alabama a couple years back.  I posted about it *here...*

Some pics of that big bird!

*Also, my blog friend, Carletta, met up with one of these guys* in-West Virginia-or Va.

We both blogged about these big birds...and were wondering if they were multiplying!  :)

( later Carletta mentioned another of these big roosters sighted by, yet, another blogger!!! )

LOL-I think maybe they are!

Junie Rose

Gourd Birdhouse/with pink flowers!

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I want to do this again!

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Junie Rose

Midweek Blues~Sept 1, 2010 ~ Feather

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I found this in 

one of my old nature files.

It's not a recent find and it's nothing spectacular but I like it!

  :)

When my first grandson was little we would collect these sorts of things from nature. We called them our treasures!

(I still do and still have a little box for them!)

This is my first grandson who shared in my searches and fun times, all those years ago!

Daniel ~ age 3 

Love,

Junie

( Ginga )

Rudy Tuesday~ Mar 30, 2010 ~ Mr. & Mrs. Cardinal

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This is a couple who visit my backyard often!
I photographed them (through my kitchen window) on two separate occasions recently.

Junie