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Hi gypsy hoping to see you here!
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Happy New Year, La!
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January 1, 2009
One of my favorite places to go for a walk and to watch birds
Neary Lagoon
In January
within the grasp of winter
hide the fires of spring
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January 3, 2009
Male Canvasback
I will add more when I am not so worn out...
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hiya gyps. Welcome back. I Iook forward to seeing what ya got this year GF! :-)
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Yay, the gypsy has arrived!
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Hi Gypsy! Good to have you regardless of how much or little we get.
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Fantastic! I was missing you...
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Hi so great to see you, words or pictures, your presence is super welcome in my list of threads. Happy New Year!
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Nice shot and I see you have many more like it.
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...wouldn't be the same without you.
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What a wonderful shot to open up with always a pleasure to see your photos
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I'm very happy you made the jump.. Stick around.. don't stress about the group, keep it FUN!
I like having you around!
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Thanks everyone. I do love this group
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I am glad we are going to see more of your wonderful nature photography!
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I remember your beautiful bird pictures from when I was in the 2007 group. I am looking forward to seeing more of them
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I referred a friend of mine to your stream tonight. He's considering switching from Canon to Nikon because he wants to get into nature photography, and somehow he's gotten the idea that one would be better than the other.
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Hi LaM... glad to see you back this year too!
I will try to stop here more often that I did last year!
~ The Roman Gal
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Hi, LaM good to see you here for another year.
GReat shot.
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What a majestic fellow. Glad to have you and your bird friends back!
-Leesure
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January 4, 2009
I needed a walk on the river to clear my head.
Thanks for all the kind words--things have been very, very stressful at my home lately. I am sorry I haven't visited anyone yet; but I will.
Snowy Egrets on the river
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January 5, 2009
Rain all day.
Lots of stress.
No photgraph
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No need to apologize -- there's a lot of it going around (stress) :-) Happy to see your gorgeous photos whenever you're inspired to shoot and to post xoxo
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Great photos so far! Happy New Year :-)
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Hey Gypsy - you only have friends here...put on your secret stress armor and smite it with that extra long lens !
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Hi Gypsy! Already so happy to see your lovely bird photos again this year. Welcome back! Wiggy
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January 6, 2009
Took a walk on the beach this morning before work. Although it has been partlly cloudy (or partly sunny) the day has been a little warmer and feels like the fires of spring are waiting.
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Ah, the beautiful birds.
Sorry you're having a hard time. Positive thoughts and wishes to you.
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Note to self...GOTTA buy a monster tele prime. 300mm ain't enough. Great shots as always!
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I don't have a prime 400mm. Wish I did but they are very very pricey and also quite heavy. I use the 100-400 mm zoom lens and like it very much and it is considerably less expensive than the prime.
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as always a wonderful bird shot gypsy
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I absolutely love your bird photos. And after trying to to capture some myself I can really appreciate your talent. Last year Ted referred you a photo of some baby hummingbirds. You graciously extended an invitation to me to post it on Spectacular Animals. I was honored by your invite. This year Ted has persuaded me to join MDPD. Please come visit to get a glimpse of Panama when you have a chance
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I crawled on my belly like a reptile. He let me get closer than ever before and then a woman and her dog came along and he flew away.
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Mr P. From Panama, I will happily come to your diary and to your photostream. Perhaps this evening when I am home from work. Thank you for the reminder.
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ugh sorry that woman and dog ruined your shot!
Hope you're feeling less stressed!
The Roman Gal
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SSC, actually I got over 200 shots of this heron in many different positions and angles so it was probably good she came along. I needed to get back to work. And I cannot protest too much as this is a public park in the middle of a neighborhood with a children's playground. There is quite a variety of birdlife there from this resident green heron, to double-crested cormorants, gulls, ring-necked ducks, ruddy ducks, coots, mallards, a belted kingfisher, pied-billed grebes, and a large population of passerines such as red-winged blackbirds, yellow-rumped warblers etc. Not to mention hummingbirds, kildeer and turtles.
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La Maquisarde wrote I crawled on my belly like a reptile He he...Slitherin Gypsys !
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Wow. Awesome bird photos. My kids are really enjoying these. Hope things at home are less stressful!
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January 8, 2009
Spent the day pruning big things--climbing roses and trees. After being up on a ladder all day, I was on my knees in the afternoon photographing this egret in Moss Landing.
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*sigh* simply gorgeous, Gypsy.
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You have some beautiful bird shots !!
I really love the 2th of jan :-))
Hope the stress is over...
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The green heron and egret shots are particularly stunning. Worth the yoga poses it took to get them, for sure...
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@La Maquisarde, Landing - or take off ?
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Take off
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Jan 8th Shot. Absolutely Fabulous
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Hi La M -- lovely to see your nature shots again.
-R
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Your nature shots are fabulous!
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I love January 8th - I think the ones you take of birds taking off or landing are always my favourites.
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Your nature shots really ARE fabulous!
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wow another great shot gypsy
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She blushes and curtsies a thank you.
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I am sorry about not visiting many threads so far this year; I hope to make up for that soon. I have just been very busy and under a lot of stress. My son is having major problems and my house is up for sale, etc. etc. etc.
Lame excuses I know.
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January 9, 2009
Took a walk along the river this afternoon. I was hiding in the reeds trying to get closer and closer to this heron who was also hiding in the reeds. I was trying to find a place where there would be a window through the reeds so that I could take some portraits. The bank was very muddy and so I was carefully making my way along. I finally found the perfect place and the heron seemed to be concentrating so hard on fishing that he didn't even seem a bit concerned that I was there. We were becoming very comfortable with each other when I heard a shout on the other side of the bank. I lowered my camera and looked over and watched a man come down the opposite bank, onto the mud and then noisily splash across the river crossing in water that was above his waist. He came out dripping wet not far from me and was shouting profanities etc. I was a little bit afraid; but even more I was annoyed. I thought he was deliberately trying to scare the heron away. He ignored me and went running up the bank onto the levee but was racing back and forth shouting all the time. At one point he came back down the bank, and across the grass just above me. I just kept my eye on the heron and pretended to be unperturbed. The man's behavior was erratic and I thought very hostile--perhaps one of the local homeless people off his meds, I was thinking.. The heron finally lost his concentration and flew off. I was irritated but decided that I had had enough shots anyway and I started up the bank. I was a bit worried going back up as I knew he was still up there shouting and I am a small person while he was a very big, powerful looking man. Fortunately, there are lots of people along the river and it is not a dark and lonely place. When I got to the top, the man said to me "Did you see me riding my bicycle on the levee?" I replied, "No, I am sorry; but I didn't" "Well, I just put it down for a second and someone rode off with it!" Oh! That explained what was going on. I told him I was very sorry to hear that but that I had not really noticed anyone (human that is!)
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I can't see the blue...I might go to the eye doctor :P
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i love how you've captured all these different birds! beautiful!
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I love the reflection on the water from the 8th. I've been trying t get something similar for 2 years...unsuccessfully.
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January 10, 2009
A short walk on the river this morning; fortunately without any major incident like yesterday! I stopped to watch this little one feed and bathe; but never really could get quite close enough.
Now I am preparing to do my radio show.
Listen live
Every Saturday
3-5 p.m. (California time)
www.kusp.org
or hear the archived version
www.kusp.org/archive/musicweek.html
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tippy toe on water...bravo !
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Today's bird looks a bit chilled. Glad to hear today was more serene. The heron is magnificent.
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A noteworthy group of photographs to check out
www.flickr.com/photos/25174003@N00/
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I was just listening to your archived show - the perfect music to view your photos by!
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You took no time at all in just settling in and once again posting amazing photos. I am in awe of your talent and so very jealous of your surroundings.
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I've set my alarm to listen today!
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Um; but the show was yesterday. But you can listen to it here:
www.kusp.org/archive/musicweek.html
just click on Musical Migrations
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Just making my first visit here this year, its taken me too long! As always your nature photography is stunning, the shot from the 8th for example is just brilliant!
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January 11, 2009
While my realtor held an open house, I went out to my friend Annie's to mow her lawn while she is in Mexico and sit in the quiet of her acre orchard.
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Just amazing! What sort of bird is this?
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These are beautiful! I love the egret and the heron in particular.
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Beautiful birds.
Love the blue heron from the 9th.
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crazyBobcat--it is a sparrow
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Here is one of the very best on flickr
www.flickr.com/photos/freespirit5/
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Great Link...love the icy landings !
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January 12, 2009
Busy day. Just time for a short walk on the river just before sunset. The weather was one of those perfect January days--even slightly warm. The weather was soft and the sky was deep blue with streaky thin clouds.
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The water looks like gold.
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It really was that color and I kept hoping one of the egrets would fly over it and one did!
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oh the pic for today is amazing! love it!
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Another blue sky day...
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Love the blue background, makes the warbler really stand out.
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WOW, the reflections you are getting of the egret are amazing the one form the 12th looks like it might touch the water as it flys.
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January 14, 2009
Great Blue Heron
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January 15, 2009
Snowy Egret
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You have such magnificent birds around you. I should really pay more attention to the bird population in my area, and it's quite embarrassing that I don't given that many of my friends are ornithologists. I was walking up to my office yesterday and watched a hawk swoop down to catch a mouse from the snow just a few yards from me. Beautiful and tragic at the same time.
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Nice one Gypsy !!
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Every Day you post my newest favorite. I think though that the shot from the 12th is magnificent. The spread wings, the reflection in the golden water and just the bird's posture. Breathtaking!!
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January 16, 2009
Long-billed curlew
A work in progress. I am writing this for my son and want to keep it on line somewhere, so here it is...don't feel you have to read it or comment on it.
Those Shoes
I started thinking about those shoes again last night. The ones that were missing from the house after my mother's death. The ones that we were so fascinated with as children.
The ones my father brought home from the war.
They were small and narrow. They couldn't have been for a child because the heels were too high. They were made of wood perhaps or some similar substance. I think they came from either The Philippines or New Guinea. They came from one of the places that my father had been in when he fought in World War II.
They were open toed and had a faded green cloth strap that one slipped their toes through to hold the shoe on. The insoles were shiny smooth reddish brown, the color of a palm frond. But it was the wide high heels of the shoes that fascinated us. They were a carved scene of a tropical forest and painted green. My mother kept the shoes on display on a shelf that was part of our living room coffee table. I used to hold them in my hand and stare into them and silently tell myself stories about what was happening in that little village in the tropical forest. Who lived in that little grass hut, I wondered. I loved the weight of them in my hand and the way that they smelled to my childish mind of a far away place that maybe someday I would visit and find my father's memories. My youngest sister used to try to wear them around the carpeted floor of the living room.
I guess what got me started thinking about the shoes was that I came across a photograph of my father in his uniform while I was sorting boxes getting ready to move to another state. It was a hand-tinted photograph taken in a studio when he was probably about 25 years old. He was sitting facing the camera and had a shy hopeful smile on his face. It was the look of innocence and youth. Here was a man who had probably never left his hometown in his life. He was the eldest of eight children--four girls, four boys. His parents had emigrated from the Azores Islands before he was born and had settled near a very small town in California's central valley. They owned a farm and there they raised their children. They never learned to speak English even though all their children were bi-lingual. My father had to quit school when he was in fifth grade to work on the farm and help support the family. This was a great disappointment to him and a source of embarrassment later in life. He worked very hard for his father and even though he was forced to quit school and work, he still adored his father. They played music together. My father played Dobro guitar, his father played violin and his brother, Hank, played the mandolin. Every Saturday night they were invited to a party to play music where they would earn a free dinner. Music was his passion and his escape.
In the photograph, he also looks hopeful. Even though he is going off to war; he seems to be looking ahead to possible adventure and perhaps advancement in his life. He is leaving the farm for the first time. He traveled to exotic places such as New Guinea, Borneo, Australia, and the Philippines. He fought the Japanese. He learned to communicate with the natives of New Guinea in their language and was often used to gather information because of this. My mother kept a book of all of his letters to her. Once when I was young, I found them and read them. My only memory of what they said was that he hoped that they only had daughters so that no child of theirs would ever have to fight in a war. This I am told is a typical thing for a soldier to say to his wife. My mother was 19 when she married him and he was 25. He went off to war shortly after their marriage and was gone for several years--so they really didn't know each other until after he had come back--a very changed man.
From that youthful innocence of the photograph; he went to war and experienced all the horrors of the Pacific front. One day while reaching for his dinner bowl, he was shot in his right hand.
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Beautiful shots as eve Gypsy. I can never get over the variety and number of birds on your door step.
That's a lovely story. You're lucky to know that much about your father. I know very little about our family history. I really must research it some day.
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Thanks. I am not finished with it yet. I just haven't had the time to work on it. Too much anxiety going on here at home--including trying to sell my house in a market that is spiraling downward and an economy that isn't particularly flourishing. The price of too many wars for too long...I guess.
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I'll be on the air today from 3 to 5 p.m California time
www.kusp.org
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One of the best
www.stevelaufer.com/
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I wrote it as a comment but just have to reiterate - the egret with the bronze water is STUNNING.
It deserves comment - the story is touchingly detailed... thank you for sharing this with us. It makes me think about how much I really know the past of my father and grandfather....
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Thank you Erica.
The story isn't finished I just haven't had the time to work on it. It is still in the rough. I sort of want it to be centered around my father's loss and his steady degeneration because of the loss of his music and the how my parent's relationship changed over the years. I am writing it for my son.
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I agree with Erica, the rich details give your story genuine feeling. I'm eager to read more!
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La Maquisarde wrote he hoped that they only had daughters so that no child of theirs would ever have to fight in a war.
I do so wish that all our young never wake up with the smell of gunpower and blood in their nostrils...
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January 18, 2008
Spent most of the morning in Moss landing laying on my belly on one of the piers photographing eared grebes and common loons. Came home and started weeding my garden. Phone call from my friend Lise in Paris as we discussed her family woes, my neighborhood woes, our kids, my big move, her desire to move etc...
Birds sing, the sun shines, the air is soft
what more does one need?
Eared Grebes
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When are you moving south gyps!? We need to go on a photo field trip and have a few glasses of wine!
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Gotta sell this dang house first! I am so eager to be gone; but the economy is really crappy and there are lots of houses on the market due to foreclosures etc. I am not fortunately facing that but it does make for a rather flooded market and lowers the overall prices of houses. Bad for selling but great when I will be buying.
So cross your fingers for me.
I look forward to both a photo trip and the wine.
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I love the godwit shot! I've not had any luck with them myself. Their favorite places near here are pretty inaccessible to us non-winged critters.
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