Showing posts with label Gadwall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gadwall. Show all posts

Sunday, June 30, 2013





"Something is calling to me
from the corners of fields,
where the leftover fence wire
suns its loose coils, and stones
thrown out of the furrow
sleep in warm litters;
where the gray faces
of old No Hunting signs
mutter into the wind,"
                    
                            from In the Corners of Fields
                                            Ted Kooser

The last of the photos from our trip to the
Cabin in May a bit late but we switched 
computers which took a while to figure out.
We are starting the trip home. A few inhabitants
of the Prairie pot holes






And then the Prairie a canvas of sky, cloud and horizon.










"Would I miss the way a breeze dimples
the butter-colored curtains on Sunday mornings,
or nights gnashed by cicadas and thunderstorms?
The leaning gossip, the half-alive ripple
of sunflowers, sagging eternities of corn
and sorghum, September preaching yellow, yellow
in all directions,"

 from  Prairie Sure
                                 Carol Light    

Thursday, May 19, 2011

I went down to my local park yesterday
expecting my usual Mallards and
Canadian geese. But I also found
a pair of Gadwall.


And a pair of American Wigeon



I also went back to the shrubs for some more
wasps and bees.




The insect in the shots below
appears to be a Hover Fly.

"Tiny antennae and flattened abdomen."
Bugs of Alberta

"Hoverflies are harmless to most other animals
despite their mimicry of the black and yellow
stripes of wasps, which serves to ward off predators."

Wikipedia

The larva eat aphids and other pests so they are
used as a biocontrol.






"The insect world appealed to Fabre.
I find the insect world macabre.
In every hill of ants I see
A governed glimpse of what shall be"

                                     Creeps and Crawls                                 
               Ogen Nash