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Mute Swan ~ Cygnus olor ~ Huron River
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
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on the wing again ~ Canada Geese ~ Branta canadensis ~ Huron River and Watershed
"There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor." ~ Charles Dickens
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Red-tailed Hawk ~ Buteo jamaicensis ~ Great Lakes and Watershed ~ 2nd road trip for birding festival ~ September 2015
"If you see Mt. Fuji, a hawk, and an eggplant on New Year's Day, you will be forever blessed." ~ Japanese proverb
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Bald Eagle ~ Haliaeetus leucocephalus ~ Great Lakes and Watershed
"Fly like an eagle, let my spirit carry me." ~ Steve Miller
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Broad-winged Hawk ~ Buteo platypterus ~ Great Lakes and Watershed
"Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas.... rest your spirit in her solitary places." ~ Henry Beston
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American Kestrel ~ Falco sparverius ~ Great Lakes and Watershed
"Swift on the wing, powerful flight I soar, my tail spread wide I fly for freedom, I fly for life, on feathered wings I glide. I am Kestrel, the flyer, the soarer..... Prettiest of the Falcon blood, I have not a blue-bird's song and beauty, nor a Swan's long-necked grace. I am Kestrel, the proud, the beautiful, I am a Falcon, I am a Hawk...." ~ Erin Mazur
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Image of a Small Thing
"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.” ~ Ansel Adams
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Great Egret ~ Ardea alba ~ Great Lakes and Watershed ~ 1st road trip for birding festival with instructor and class ~ September 2015
"On foot its movements are as graceful as those of the Louisiana Heron, its steps measured, its long neck gracefully retracted and curved, and its silk train reminded one of the flowing robes of the noble ladies of Europe." ~ James Audubon
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the feast ~ Huron River and Watershed
"The butterfly is a flying flower, the flower a tethered butterfly." ~ Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun
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papillon ~ perhaps an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail ~ Michigan
"If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere." ~ Vincent van Gogh
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U.S. Marine Corps C-130T "Fat Albert" ~ Thunder Over Michigan ~ August 2015
butterfly blue ~ ~ Huron River and Watershed
"she wore blue velvet, bluer than velvet was the night, softer than satin was the light...." ~ Lana del Ray
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spice from a million flowers
“Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.” ~ Ray Bradbury
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mute swan ~ Cygnus olor ~ Huron River, Michigan
"I have no special talents, I am only passionately curious." ~ Albert Einstein
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secret life of bees, (from Sue Monk Hood) ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it." ~ John Muir
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perhaps a calico pennant dragonfly ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than the ones you did do.” –Mark Twain
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Red-winged Blackbird, Female ~ Agelaius phoeniceus ~ Huron River, Michigan
"Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder." ~ e. b. White
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Mallard ducklings in a row ~ Anas platyrhynchos ~ Huron River, Michigan
"Wherever you go, go with all your heart." ~ Confucius
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Mallard mom and her family of ducklings ~ Anas platyrhynchos ~ Huron River, Michigan
"In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.” ~ Aaron Rose
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shortly after the summer solstice 2015 ~ Eastern Continental United States
"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything. " ~ Plato
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Eastern Kingbird ~ Tyrannus tyrannus ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"The photo is the hunt. It’s the instinct of hunting without the desire to kill. It’s the hunt of angels… you track, you aim, you fire and-click! Instead of a dead man, you make him eternal." - Chris Marker
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Eastern Kingbird ~ Tyrannus tyrannus ~ Huron River Watershed, Michigan
"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper." W. B. Yeats
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