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Showing posts with label gloria nagler. Show all posts

Gloria's Birds: I think I can, I think I can...

Saturday, November 19, 2022

Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

(Male Mallard hesitantly preparing to launch onto Lake Washington the other day.)

--Gloria Z. Nagler




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Gloria's Critters: Ramona likes to stay in synch with her mom... don't we all?

Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

Ruby and her little one stopped by our yard the other day. --Gloria Z. Nagler




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Gloria's Critters: Somnambulant Squirrel...

Sunday, November 6, 2022

Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

(First Gray Squirrel -- or any squirrel -- I've seen sleeping! Photog was delighted when she remained asleep long enough for a shot!)

--Gloria Z. Nagler



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Gloria's Birds: Gisele had a sure-fire remedy for a crowded freeway...a flyover!

Thursday, November 3, 2022

 
Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

(Limited, of course, to creatures with wings:). The other Canada Geese were running from a sudden influx of "outsider" geese. Gisele was evidently too anxious to go with the flow, so she hopped a coupla times and then took flight. Funny how much the other animals are like us, eh?)

On the shores of Lake Washington the other day.

--Gloria Z. Nagler



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Gloria's Birds: Pensive Towhee..

Sunday, October 30, 2022

Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler
(I adore Spotted Towhees: Wing spots, orangey flanks, red eyes, what's not to love?)

--Gloria Z. Nagler



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Gloria's Insects: They call her Mellow Yellow...

Friday, October 28, 2022

 
Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

(And zounds, what a pollen sac! Yellow Bumblebee in the community garden)

--Gloria Z. Nagler



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Gloria's Birds: You'd better hop to it and press that shutter, photog; I sense something bad's gonna happen!

Monday, October 17, 2022

 
Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

(Jana, sitting for her annual portrait, had good instincts, I did snap in time, and no Steller's Jays were harmed in the making of this image:)

--Gloria Z. Nagler




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Gloria's Birds: Lookin' up

Saturday, October 15, 2022

 
Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

Star light, star bright,
First star I see tonight…

[Or, more likely in the case of a Steller's Jay: "Yikes, is that a hawk overhead? Or just a crow?" Ever vigilant: the wildlife code.]

--Gloria Z. Nagler



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Gloria Nagler: Initially I thought this was some sort of abstract artsy object,

Saturday, October 8, 2022

Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

floating on the wetlands pond! I later realized (like long minutes later) it was a lily pad that had collapsed sideways. Still looks pretty abstract to this photog:)

--Gloria Z. Nagler



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Gloria's Birds: Julian's nosedive (beakdive?) took him nearly out of the frame,

Wednesday, October 5, 2022

 
Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

but he nonetheless selected this image for his résumé portrait... shows moxie, he said.

(Julian's a Steller's Jay diving to the seed tray:)

--Gloria Z. Nagler




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Gloria's Insects: Oooh, yellow, thought Beulah. Don't know why, but I adore anything yellow!

Tuesday, October 4, 2022

Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

(Beulah appears to be the aptly monikered Yellow Bumblebee, common in the PNW. And she has an impressive pollen basket!)

--Gloria Z. Nagler



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Gloria's Birds: What'd I tell you, photog; we White-crowned Sparrows BELONG on pedestals!

Saturday, October 1, 2022

Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

(Right she is! I rarely see these sparrows and so was delighted when she posed for me:)

--Gloria Z. Nagler



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Gloria's Birds: Darn, said Jules, I was sure I put my phone right here in this pocket!

Monday, September 26, 2022

 
Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

(Proving that Steller's Jays don't have stellar memories:)

--Gloria Z. Nagler




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Gloria's Birds: Barely out of the nest, Suzy sometimes felt she was losing her head over the anxiety of the Unknown

Sunday, September 18, 2022

Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

(Does kinda look that way! So hard to be young and on your own. Suzy is a fledgling Song Sparrow, wondering what to do next.)

--Gloria Z. Nagler



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Gloria's Birds: Are you positive I'm in no jeopardy here, photog? asked Sidney Song Sparrow, nervously

Monday, September 12, 2022

 
Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

(Well, didn't look like a predator! Happily, no harm came to either bird. Sidney still trusts me:)

--Gloria Z. Nagler



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Gloria Nagler: Nothin' like a happy wheelbarrow to make my day!

Sunday, September 11, 2022

Photo copyright Gloria Z Nagler

 Hope this brought a smile to your face!



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Gloria's Insects: Dana revved up her wings, extended her front legs,

Tuesday, September 6, 2022

Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

and began her launch to another blossom.

(She may look scary, but the Great Golden Digger Wasp is not an aggressive wasp. To the contrary, they are avid pollinators, and they aerate the soil for us; females dig into loose soil to create tunnels. So welcome to the digger wasps!)

--Gloria Z. Nagler



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Gloria's Birds: Our neighborhood Barred Owl catchin' a few zzzz's before her nocturnal noshing...

Friday, September 2, 2022

Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

...catchin' a few zzzz's before her nocturnal noshing

--Gloria Z. Nagler



 

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Gloria's Birds: Ya gotta admit, photog, right side up or upside down,

Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

I'm the best lookin' bird in the yard!
(Steller's Jays are nothing if not self-assured!)


--Gloria Z. Nagler



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Gloria's Insects: No, silly photog, I am not a long-eared lepidopteran,

Sunday, August 28, 2022

Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler
 

I'm a Woodland Skipper and those are my wingtips!

(Gotta say, I also admire Skipper's antennae!

--Gloria Z. Nagler




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