Saturday, May 10, 2014

Painted Turtle

Montezuma Audubon Center

Try to be like the turtle -- at ease in your own shell.
- Bill Copeland

More interpretations at wintry waters....

Yellow Warbler

MNWR South Spring Pool

When beechen buds begin to swell,
And woods ... warble know,
- William Cullen Bryant

More interpretations at Camera Critters.

More interpretations at I’d Rather B Birdin’.
When beechen buds begin to swell,
And woods the blue-bird's warble know,

The yellow violet's modest bell
Peeps from the last year's leaves below.
LESS

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When beechen buds begin to swell,
And woods the blue-bird's warble know,

The yellow violet's modest bell
Peeps from the last year's leaves below.
LESS

Read more at http://quotes.dictionary.com/search/yellow+warbler?page=1#QxupDkxZBk0lbb0l.9

Friday, May 9, 2014

Daffodils

Orange Centers

Whatever a man's age,
he can reduce it several years
by putting a bright-colored flower 
in his button-hole.
- Mark Twain

More interpretations at Orange You Glad It’s Friday!.

Montezuma Audubon Center

Wood Duck Swamp

Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields,
not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps. 
- Henry David Thoreau


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Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Even the lonely woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head.

- Joe Marcucci

  More interpretations at Ruby Tuesday Too.

Monday, May 5, 2014

Blue Jay

Flew into view this morning during my birding walk.

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow,
he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. 
- Eric Berne

More interpretations at Blue Monday.

Sunday, May 4, 2014

Caspian Terns & Yellowlegs

Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge

I hope you love birds... It saves going to heaven.
- Emily Dickinson
 
More interpretations at I’d Rather B Birdin’.