12 Tuesday Apr 2022
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it looks like the goose couple may be moving in across the way… I’ve seen them two or three times recently…
this morning I spent time enjoying their activities…
one eats while the other acts as a guard to be sure no enemies come along and disturb them…
I think they are spending time in the creek, but I haven’t spotted them there yet…
maybe I will see a nest before long…
that is of course if they stay through the blizzard🤪…
07 Friday May 2021
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big girl pants, birds, blessed, geese, goose, looking, moments, nature, neighbour, photos, pictures, Spring, surprise, widow
this morning, as I was starting to walk around the living and dining rooms to check on all the seedlings, I noticed my next door neighbour taking photos… I looked across the street at her car, thinking something had damaged it, but it was fine…
I looked at the field and along the neighbour’s fence but there was nothing there…
I tried to look down the lane but there really isn’t a good angle from where I was…
I started to walk away and noticed something on the roof across the street…
there was a goose standing there… clearly what she was taking pictures of…
I got a few photos before the camera battery announced it was exhausted, and suddenly another goose flew toward it and away, maybe from my roof, and then the first goose followed…
what a surprise…
10 Thursday Sep 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, Canada geese, end of summer, family, geese, health, honk, moments, nature, photos, sky, walk, widow
lately the geese have flown over the house honking at all times of the day… it is a sure sign that summer is nearing its end, and a sound that I love to hear…
walked over by the Park this morning with my daughter (on the phone) and watched geese going over…
also took a few photos of a pair of geese who were right beside the walkway and happy to pose…
they were not in the least perturbed by people walking so close to them… not sure if that is good or bad…
17 Friday Apr 2020
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beloved, big girl pants, birds, blessed, eyes, garden, geese, hot tub, moments, nature, red, robins, sunlit, Technology, widow
yesterday I was in the hot tub early in the evening, which is not my usual pattern…
I watched geese flying south in the blue sky…
I also watched a number of birds in the elm tree next door… in the sunlight they looked like they were bright red in colour… many flew from there past the garage…
I stared at one of them for the longest time trying to decide if it was a sunlit robin or something else… because there were so many of them I didn’t think they were robins as usually I see them alone… eventually it flew away…
thinking how my beloved would have been able to provide a certain answer as he had eagle eyes;-)…
as soon as I got into the house I checked my bird book and my bird app (of course I have one) and am pretty sure it was a robin…
but it was exciting for a few moments as I imagined all kinds of very red birds, lol..
here’s the photo that my Merlin Bird ID came up with…
07 Saturday Mar 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, boot, friends, fun, garden, geese, leak, moments, nature, soaked, sunshine, treat, walk, widow
had a lovely day…
walked to and from the Park with a friend and had lunch at the Park Cafe… I’ve been ordering the same thing for a while now – the beet and goat cheese salad with falafel on the side… it is delicious… I order a side so it is just the right size…
enjoyed all the bits of nature which I spotted at home and on our walk… I also saw and heard geese flying over which was an early Spring treat…
the only unfortunate thing was that one of my boots sprang a leak and by the time I was home my foot was soaked...
apparently I am going to have to get new boots for next year;-(…
26 Thursday Sep 2019
26 Monday Aug 2019
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big girl pants, blessed, bridge, family, fawn, fishing, geese, memories, moments, rain, walk, widow, woodpecker
so far we’ve seen a fawn, frogs, geese and a pileated woodpecker… and we’ve only been here since noon;-)…
we’ve hiked around the campground and taken a few photos from the bridge that is usually in my pictures…
we’ve fished, or more precisely, practised casting, lol…
and are currently sitting around a campfire waiting for it to die down so we can cook hotdogs for our supper…
why is it that hotdogs taste so delicious when cooked over a fire…
pretty fine day considering we were led to believe it was going to rain all day…
16 Friday Aug 2019
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big girl pants, blessed, English Garden, flowers, gaggle, garden, geese, iPhone, Leo Mol Sculpture Garden, nature, photos, pond, walk, widow
this morning had a great walk to the Park…
on my way saw a bunny and a gaggle of geese… crossed the street so as not to disturb them… was a bit of a surprise to see them on a sidewalk, but maybe they were checking out the Little Library, lol…
crossing the walking bridge I spotted a brief of pelicans… I think there were nine in total and there was a cormorant with them… it was clearly preening time…
my camera battery quit midway through my walk so I took the rest of the photos with my iPhone… it always makes me giggle when it announces that it is exhausted, lol…
today I seemed to lean toward white…
although I did focus on a few frogs, lol…
a much less crowded visit than the one on Sunday… the one sad thing was that our bench was being watered so I couldn’t sit…
ended the visit checking out the ducks and geese at the Riley Family Duck Pond…
20 Monday May 2019
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big girl pants, ducks, finches, geese, Great Blue Heron, heron, purple, treat, widow
noticed a number of birds over the last few days…
common or purple finches at the bird feeder, and ducks and geese at the Park…
the mallard was at the door to the Leo Mol Gallery… not sure if it was waiting to go in, or what…
but, the most exciting creature I’ve seen was the great blue heron by the bridge to the Park…
I was so excited to see this beauty… I must have stood watching it for ten minutes before it flew away…
herons are everywhere in Ontario and BC, and I’ve seen a few at Manitoba lakes, but not in the city…
a wonderful treat…
08 Wednesday May 2019
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Assiniboine Park, big girl pants, geese, grass, nesting, Qualico Family Center, roof, walk, widow
took these photos Sunday, on my walk in the Park…
clearly some geese were setting up their nest on the roof of the skating shelter by the Duck Pond…
sort of funny when you think that the roof on the Qualico Family Center, just a few steps away, is made of grass, lol…
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