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kittygilchrist 05-16-2013 10:16 AM

What we love about the natural world.
 
I'll share first. Watching a pair of mockingbirds bathe in my irrigation donuts. sweet. I always wanted to hear them sing, but lived for years in an area with too little open field. Smiling....waiting for the song.
Kitty

redwitch 05-16-2013 10:21 AM

Watching the sandhill cranes stand up straight and tall, looking totally arrogant and in control of their world.

kittygilchrist 05-16-2013 10:35 AM

I love their crazy ululations! Seeing them at the pond is my favorite spy from the lanai!

gomoho 05-16-2013 03:54 PM

Gators, absolutely do it for me. They are so prehistoric and magnificent and it thrills me to think we live in the same community. Doubt they feel the same.

rubicon 05-16-2013 03:59 PM

The beauty of a recent sparkingly white snow cover...since moving to Florida

tainsley 05-17-2013 07:04 AM

I miss Watching the bluebirds return to the nesting box my husband built for them back in VA. Beautiful royal blue with orange breasts, bathing in a birdbath stategically located near a window where I could watch them!

kittygilchrist 05-17-2013 07:11 AM

oh tainsley, we have bluebirds here! I don't know what they like, but I think they eat suet and like a special box for nesting?

tainsley 05-17-2013 07:45 AM

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Originally Posted by kittygilchrist (Post 677518)
oh tainsley, we have bluebirds here! I don't know what they like, but I think they eat suet and like a special box for nesting?

Thanks Kitty! I have been here 18 mos. and have yet to see one! I guess I will have to get hubby to build another one!

rmcpklinefelter 05-17-2013 07:52 AM

...hearing the whoosh, whoosh, whoosh of their wings as Canadian geese do a low fly over when they're not honking, totally neat. Also seeing their heads turn from side to side as they fly...good pilots...(most of the time).

jojo 05-17-2013 08:12 AM

Watching the white pelicans majestically swoop in on the water behind us. They look like swans on the water.

kittygilchrist 05-17-2013 08:57 AM

white pelicans! aren't they rare? how can they be at once comical and graceful? Come to think of it, I might be like that too...
Kitty

rubicon 05-17-2013 12:50 PM

Walking the golf course in the morning. Hello grass, hello trees, hello birds hello..........

duffysmom 05-22-2013 04:19 PM

Sand Hill Cranes mate for life and when feeding one will stand watch while the other feeds. Saw a few chicks this season as well. One pair had two chicks and each chick followed and imitated a parent. Here in TV we get to be up close and personal with nature, a never ending delight.

kittygilchrist 05-22-2013 04:37 PM

oh my yes! sandhills in the back yard! I can't wait to see little ones. I'm on a lake w/trees so am hoping!!

rayschic 05-22-2013 04:52 PM

I have a pair of cardinals that come into my yard every day and eat some seeds off my shrubs. They just had three babies and now all five are visiting. Love sitting on the lanai and watching them.


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