Wild Flowers in the Garden

drifter

drifter

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I sat out on the patio today at noon, sitting in the sun and fifty degree tempertures with a light jacket. Seniors sixty and over to stay in their homes ot at home by city and state regulations because of the virus. About all I can do is operate the computer a bit and use, to some extent, my little Canons. Sitting at the table I trfied to spot something to photograph. Really nothing. I did try a very small dandelion, one starting to bloom and one gone to seed. Why? Because I had seen a shot of one
taken out in Orange County that impressed me. After trying a couple of shots, I concluded California dandelions are prettier than Oklahoma ones. I did get a shot of a wild flower my wife had planted last year or the year before, an unusual growth. A purple flower, she has one with buds not yet opened and a few that are. I did photograph it. It's called a Stacy's woundwart, and originally was grown in Wales. One other. I had my camera, a very small Powershot Digital ELPH, an old camera. One robin kept running aross my driveway from the neighbor's lawn, peering at me when I blew my harmonica. I tried to photograph him when he was up close but he always turned his back to me before I could focus. Finally, I shot him across the driveway in the other yard. Not close enough but sometime you have to take what you can get.

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Stacys Woundwart.
 

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Dandelion going to seed. Notice the difference in this and one posted a while back.That stood out,
you noticed it it and possably said, "Nice," or some other word of ad miration. This one is slightly
out of focus,and makes one wonder, "Why did he post this thing?"
 

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drifter said:
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The Robin. I think he thinks the neighbor's worms are better than mine. Nothing noteworthy,
just a bird.
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oooh that's co-incidental that you posted this picture Drifter... because we have Robins ( traditional red-breasted robins in our garden all year round)... and I mentioned to my husband the other day that some people on here were questioning that, and saying they only get robins in winter, and hubs informed me that American robins and Europeans robins are different..explaining that yours are a little taller and slimmer than our small chubby one... and now I can see that in your picture... , and at 64 years old I learned something new :giggle:

here's one I took yesterday... it was far away from where I was sitting so I had to use a lot of zoom but you can pretty much see the difference,

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Empty said:
RE: The extra shoot - I thought maybe a pea?
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Possibly. I find all kinds of shoots like those around our house and know they are from sunflowers that the birds have either stashed and the wind blown them about or they’ve been dropped. They have been roundish leaves just like that and even if he doesn’t feed the birds it could be from his neighbours. That’s my guess.

That’s a lot of words for ‘no I think it’s a sunflower sprout.! 😂😬
 
Keesha said:
Possibly. I find all kinds of shoots like those around our house and know they are from sunflowers that the birds have either stashed and the wind blown them about or they’ve been dropped. They have been roundish leaves just like that and even if he doesn’t feed the birds it could be from his neighbours. That’s my guess.

That’s a lot of words for ‘no I think it’s a sunflower sprout.! 😂😬s
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That's what I love about Spring - the mystery sprouts!
 
hollydolly said:
oooh that's co-incidental that you posted this picture Drifter... because we have Robins ( traditional red-breasted robins in our garden all year round)... and I mentioned to my husband the other day that some people on here were questioning that, and saying they only get robins in winter, and hubs informed me that American robins and Europeans robins are different..explaining that yours are a little taller and slimmer than our small chubby one... and now I can see that in your picture... , and at 64 years old I learned something new :giggle:

here's one I took yesterday... it was far away from where I was sitting so I had to use a lot of zoom but you can pretty much see the difference,

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Our robins disappear in the winter months. When I see the first one here
I know spring is not far behind. Some of our guys do have long legs, too.
 
Empty said:
You definitely had the bird's attention - he's giving you a very wary eye!
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Robins are so trusting but attentive. They don’t seem to miss a thing. We used to have them nest in our mulberry tree but the cat gets out and hassles them. A few years ago mommy robin abandoned her eggs due to our cat. It was bittersweet. I was relieved that she didn’t hatch them but felt bad that she had to abandon her potential family but trying to care for them with a cat harassing them wouldn’t have been fair and I of course would have been referee’ing them. Hopefully she had another batch. Robins often have a couple of pregnancies in the same season.
 
drifter said:
Our robins disappear in the winter months. When I see the first one here
I know spring is not far behind. Some of our guys do have long legs, too.
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Ours do also. The only ones that stay are the sick and elderly who can’t make the flight.

It’s a sign of spring here when the robins show up. They are tough birds too. We get some brutal weather in spring. Last night it snowed and the temperatures dropped right down. Plus we had some serious wind gusts. I have often wondered how birds protect themselves in severe weather like thunderstorms or wind storms. Do they stay awake clinging on to branches all night?
My husband says I worry about the strangest things. Lol
 
Keesha said:
Ours do also. The only ones that stay are the sick and elderly who can’t make the flight.

It’s a sign of spring here when the robins show up. They are tough birds too. We get some brutal weather in spring. Last night it snowed and the temperatures dropped right down. Plus we had some serious wind gusts. I have often wondered how birds protect themselves in severe weather like thunderstorms or wind storms. Do they stay awake clinging on to branches all night?
My husband says I worry about the strangest things. Lol
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Funny, I tell my wife the same thing.
 
Meanderer said:
Try to get a shot of the robin playing the harmonica...if you can!
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Nice. Think the closest I can get to a robin playing is him watching me up close
and cocking his head and giving me the evil eye, eyeball to eyeball, when I hit a
bad note.
 
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