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Sunday, April 29, 2012

Sunday Stills...Beauty in the Beast

 Pestilential wild roses....verminous, but very green



Thistle

 Common Grackle, stealer of eggs and nestlings

 Nasty garlic mustard, an invasive, alien weed

Box Elder Samaras, a native, but very weedy tree
 
Cow birds and an English sparrow stealing seeds

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14 comments:

  1. dickiebo5:29 AM

    C'mon now! ENGLISH birds do not STEAL! How slanderous is this? lol.

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  2. threecollie7:14 AM

    Dickiebo, lol, I call them Sassenachs

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  3. joated7:28 AM

    Love the fact that you needed just one word for "Thistle." With those spines showing in the photo, there's no need for more unless it be: "Ouch!"

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  4. R.Powers9:36 AM

    Seedy characters,the lot of them.

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  5. Ed12:19 PM

    Well done, I hate it when the plain jane birds get all the seed from the colourful birds..:-)

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  6. WildBlack3:11 PM

    Cool choices :)

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  7. Terry and Linda3:51 PM

    YOU DID GREAT! I liked the roses...oh how they can grow!


    Linda
    http://coloradofarmlife.wordpress.com
    http://deltacountyhistoricalsociety.wordpress.com


    P.S. Your exchange with Dickiebo is also a hoot!

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  8. Eva @View from the Hillside5:50 PM

    Wow, you seem to have a lot to chose between. Great pictures, and I your comments.

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  9. Shirley5:54 PM

    Plenty of pestiferous pesky things!

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  10. Far Side of Fifty12:19 AM

    Well done! you are much greener than we are here:)

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  11. threecollie6:28 AM

    Joated, they sure know how to keep themselves off the bovine dinner menu

    FC, indeed!

    Ed, bad enough the seeds, but the sparrows drive native birds out of their nests and the darned cowbirds lay their eggs in other birds' nests and leave them to raise their young. Not my favorites.

    WB, thanks!

    Linda, they smell wonderful in bloom and the rose hips are a tasty nibble when you are out working, but they are horrible in the fields and fences.

    Eva, thanks! There are a lot of pesky things out there to choose from.

    Shirley, a plethora! lol

    Far Side, thanks. We are green for this early and I am grateful for the grass it brings.

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  12. Cathy8:58 AM

    Ah! Yes! Beauty in the Beast.

    Oh the garlic mustard. How we all battle it and how it refuses our efforts.

    This was fun.

    Now I'm headed out to battle the beast :)

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  13. Linda9:51 PM

    Dickiebo's comment made my day! Great shots.

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  14. Anonymous7:46 AM

    Indeed very inviting green and great shots

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