Leftover geese and duck......

I guess I'm serving "fowl" for leftovers today!

I stopped at Garvin Park last week to see what the ducks and geese were doing and had an enjoyable time watching all the fowl that were cruising the lake. It's not a real big lake, but has a fairly large resident population of ducks and Canada geese. This picture is about half of the lake.

This is the other half of the lake with the fountain and the geese cruising in groups.

A man and his son arrived with bread to feed them, so suddenly everyone started converging on one spot.

"One of these things is not like the others. One of these things just doesn't belong...."

This is only about half of the total number that were there.

The little boy had a great time trying to feed them.

Being so packed started a lot of posturing activity.

Wings flapping, chests out........they took turns doing this.

Here are a bunch more just arriving! They must have gotten the word a bit late.
Well.....that's today's leftovers. Hmmmm.....what will be on the menu for tomorrow?

Last weeks leftovers.....

Last week, I seemed to finish up with more shots then I could get around to posting........

so this week you get leftovers :-) Mockingbird at the wetlands

wetlands flower image.....white and yellow

Great Blue Heron on the wetlands marsh

Sneaking up on him so he won't fly away :-)

Grass that I liked. (Indian Grass, according to Tom in Ohio)

OK......one dish of leftovers finished off :-)

Flora and Fauna at the arboretum.....

While I was at the Hartman Arboretum last week, besides photographing the bees and butterflies I also enjoyed the flowers. The over-all look is getting a bit worn with summer ending, but there was individual beauty in each area.

I also saw at least 6 Monarch Caterpillars on the milkweed, so I will intersperse pictures of them with the flowers. Here were 3 on one plant!

I honestly can't tell one end from the other on these things!

Is he coming or going???

Squirrel Sunday......

My little guy was all worn out from the Squirrel Olympics.

(This wonderful animated photo of one squirrel giving another a backrub ....(it didn't stay animated, but you get the idea)....came to me in an email and apparently was created by Happy Toast) While he's getting a backrub, we'll go visiting.

Across town at my in-laws they have Grey Squirrels as well as Fox Squirrels!
So even though he's a bit shy here, hiding behind his tail, we'll look in for a visit.

Maybe this is sort of like the story of the "Country Mouse and the Town Mouse"
The Country Squirrel lives with me, and the Town Squirrel lives in town (where else?)

He seemed a bit startled to have someone standing below the tree taking his picture, but posed very prettily for me.

......but he stayed on alert, all the same!

Ummm.....if he's going to be a guest star he needs to get a bit more active.

He really just didn't show much interest at all in stardom!

Oh, well......I tried. I'll visit him again some day and see if he's livened up any.

I know that my father-in-law feeds them very well. He was just a bit shy, being the first time I photographed him.

Butterfly Beauty from the Arboretum.....

I'm not good at identifying butterflies, so I will just post these for their beauty.