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mistressofmuses) wrote2025-05-12 09:28 pm
mistressofmuses) wrote2025-05-12 09:28 pm
Pelican pond: birds, flowers, and stuff
Today we had to get a pair of tires for the truck, but before that we headed over to my mom's, to wish her a belated Mother's Day, since I had to work yesterday. Alex picked out an orchid, and I gave her a rooted cutting from my begonia. We'll do more later. Usually I give her plants to plant in the garden, but it's still just a touch early (we had temps in the 30s just over a week ago!) She's going back to New Mexico next week, and won't be back until the end of the month, so won't be doing any serious gardening until then. I think we're planning a trip to the Botanic Gardens once she's back in town.
While there, we appreciated her lilac.
Which is hiding...
A praying mantis egg case! (Technically an "ootheca".)
After getting the tires, we went to Pelican Pond for a walk. It was very warm today, in the mid 80s, and it was lovely to be outside. While it was to far off to get a decent picture of, there was a pelican today!
There were lots of flowers blooming:
Honeybee on honeysuckle!
Globemallow, with a sweet pea in the background.
Bluebells
Chokecherry
Blue flax
Another of the honeybee on the honeysuckle.
Also quite a few birds!
I really liked these three crows.
Geese and goslings! One of the parents was hissing at us.
Red-winged blackbird! You can see his nice bright shoulders.
No actual bird in the picture, but you can see the woodpecker hole! I have seen flickers nesting there in previous years.
A crow!
Bella in the water!
Small claw.
Much bigger claws!
A very pretty shell. A lot more color than these usually have; typically they're very plain, matte white.
Less nice, I did find two different fishhooks, with their lures and lines. There are a bunch of fish line disposal receptacles all around the park, so it frustrates me to still find them just discarded along the shore. :/ Of course I took them and disposed of them, but I'd hate for a dog to find them with a paw, or a bird to see the lure and try to swallow it...
There's a little... water management structure at one end of the lake. I've never seen water through it, but it looks like the intent is to help control the flow of water into the reservoir. But there are some murals there now:
They all appear to be views of the lake. Very nice!
It was a lovely day to go for a walk, though Bella was again very tired by the end of it, haha.
Two pictures from mom's house:
While there, we appreciated her lilac.
Which is hiding...
A praying mantis egg case! (Technically an "ootheca".)
After getting the tires, we went to Pelican Pond for a walk. It was very warm today, in the mid 80s, and it was lovely to be outside. While it was to far off to get a decent picture of, there was a pelican today!
There were lots of flowers blooming:
Honeybee on honeysuckle!
Five more pictures of flowers:
Globemallow, with a sweet pea in the background.
Bluebells
Chokecherry
Blue flax
Another of the honeybee on the honeysuckle.
Also quite a few birds!
I really liked these three crows.
Four more pictures of birds:
Geese and goslings! One of the parents was hissing at us.
Red-winged blackbird! You can see his nice bright shoulders.
No actual bird in the picture, but you can see the woodpecker hole! I have seen flickers nesting there in previous years.
A crow!
Bella in the water!
Some things found on the shore:
Small claw.
Much bigger claws!
A very pretty shell. A lot more color than these usually have; typically they're very plain, matte white.
Less nice, I did find two different fishhooks, with their lures and lines. There are a bunch of fish line disposal receptacles all around the park, so it frustrates me to still find them just discarded along the shore. :/ Of course I took them and disposed of them, but I'd hate for a dog to find them with a paw, or a bird to see the lure and try to swallow it...
There's a little... water management structure at one end of the lake. I've never seen water through it, but it looks like the intent is to help control the flow of water into the reservoir. But there are some murals there now:
Two more:
They all appear to be views of the lake. Very nice!
It was a lovely day to go for a walk, though Bella was again very tired by the end of it, haha.
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Bella looks very happy.
Goslings! Pip has seen a family of five (and thinks there might be more because there's two other couples there). They'll be grown before I see them! /whines
The shell is pretty. As are the murals.
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Bella had a great time! Until the end of the day, when her feet were sore.
I'm sorry the goslings are growing up where you can't see them. ;-;
The shell was surprisingly colorful. I brought it home and set it on one of my plant shelves.
The murals were a nice surprise! One of them is dated a while back, and so we absolutely should have seen them the last time we were there, but we somehow didn't.
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I love red-winged blackbirds! There are loads of them nesting in all the cattails around the lake and the little marshy ponds nearby. They're delightful.
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Flowers, bees and birbs!
Bella looked unsure of the water in that pic, but I assume she had a great time.
I like the murals and how they are formatted kinda like paintings. I mean, they are paintings but the top and bottom sort of feel like they have a frame, or the white edge from taping down paper
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Always glad for flowers, bees, and birbs. So many birbs!
Bella doesn't really love the water, but she's at least gotten to the point of wanting to go in... and then looking back at us like she's not sure why we've done this to her. But she does seem to have a good time running around in it, once she gets over the fact that it's wet. She definitely likes wading in actual water far more than she likes having to walk on mildly wet grass, ha.
The murals are lovely, and very painting-like with the way they're framed. There was a fourth spot that had been primed, so I wonder if it will end up with some art on it as well.