Very nice, Karen! You get some amazing warblers! Some I recognize in my yard, but many I've never seen... Thanks for sharing your awesome photos and words...
Thanks, again, Karen. Really nice shots. I am concerned about your observation that they eat mainly bugs. On a recent trip we got hardly any bugs on our windshield. It seems that farmers and some of us city dwellers are so concerned about doing away with all of the "pests" that we are doing away with a primary food source. I am wondering about that for our future world.
Thank you. We humans really have to learn to live and work with nature. I'm encouraged by some of the research I've read about in books like "Finding the Mother Tree" (Suzanne Simard) and "Braiding Sweetgrass" (Robin Wall Kimmerer). They talk about how little we knew and how our forestry and farming practices were killing off whole ecosystems (surprise, you can't plant just 1 kind of tree) and how much we have learned now. They talk about growing acceptance in the scientific community - and about how far we still have to go. No one knows how much time we have to get it right do they?
Around here I struggle watching the invasive honeysuckle and pear trees take over. I was thinking the other day we can't fight against them by ripping them out. I wonder if we will find the answer lies in planting something else or introducing bugs rather than trying so hard to erradicate.
I belong to a farm share and he uses strictly organic methods, which means he knows a lot about which bugs to encourage to help control other pests. There is hope, we just need a lot more of it.
Very nice, Karen! You get some amazing warblers! Some I recognize in my yard, but many I've never seen... Thanks for sharing your awesome photos and words...
Thanks Ken!
There is a supreme sense of serenity that emanates from each and every photo you take. Brilliant stuff Karen!
Thank you so much. I guess that's what I'm always looking for so it's awfully nice if it comes across to someone else in a photo!
I just love them all~ thank you so much.
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So beautiful and fun! You continue to amaze with your knowledge and your photography. Thank you for sharing both!
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Love the yellow one. They are all so sweet
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Beautiful photographs. Thank you for sharing Karen.
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Thanks, again, Karen. Really nice shots. I am concerned about your observation that they eat mainly bugs. On a recent trip we got hardly any bugs on our windshield. It seems that farmers and some of us city dwellers are so concerned about doing away with all of the "pests" that we are doing away with a primary food source. I am wondering about that for our future world.
Thank you. We humans really have to learn to live and work with nature. I'm encouraged by some of the research I've read about in books like "Finding the Mother Tree" (Suzanne Simard) and "Braiding Sweetgrass" (Robin Wall Kimmerer). They talk about how little we knew and how our forestry and farming practices were killing off whole ecosystems (surprise, you can't plant just 1 kind of tree) and how much we have learned now. They talk about growing acceptance in the scientific community - and about how far we still have to go. No one knows how much time we have to get it right do they?
Around here I struggle watching the invasive honeysuckle and pear trees take over. I was thinking the other day we can't fight against them by ripping them out. I wonder if we will find the answer lies in planting something else or introducing bugs rather than trying so hard to erradicate.
I belong to a farm share and he uses strictly organic methods, which means he knows a lot about which bugs to encourage to help control other pests. There is hope, we just need a lot more of it.
Another wonderful tutorial on birds! It makes me curious to explore more about those in my native habitat!
Thank you - and yay!