Posted in Birds, Weekly Photo Challenge, tagged roseate spoonbills on September 7, 2016| 2 Comments »
Weekly Photo Challenge
“There’s an unseen force which lets birds know when you’ve just washed your car.” — Denis Norden
Roseate spoonbill at Brazos Bend National Park — Photo by Pat Bean
And for good measure, since I do so enjoy watching these pink-winged birds with the funny bill, here is another photo I snapped of roseate spoonbills.
Roseate spoonbills nesting in the World Fair’s Aviary at the St. Louis Zoo. — Photo by Pat Bean
Posted in Birds, Favorite Places, Nature, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge, tagged 1904 world's fair, aviary, inside, pat bean, postaday, roseate spoonbills, St. Louis, weekly photo challenge on July 21, 2012| 6 Comments »
Roseate spoonbills in the aviary built for the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis. — Photo by Pat Bean
“If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies … it would be a sad situation if they were better than the meat wrapped inside it.” — Albert Einstein
World’s Fair Aviary, St Louis Zoo
The swamp inside the aviary was the real thing — well almost. — Photo by Pat Bean
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” — Norman Cousins
Posted in Birds, Nature, tagged birding, great egrets, pat bean, postaday2011, roseate spoonbills, Surfside on October 20, 2011| 5 Comments »
“To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.” ~John Burroughs
Birding Day
I abandoned my blog this morning, and spent the day out birding with my son Lewis. I just barely got back, and words always fail me this time of day. So I’ll simply share one of the photos I took today. Hopefully you’ll think it worth my usual 350 words.
Great egrets and roseate spoonbils at Surfside -- Photo by Pat Bean
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters.” — Ursula K. Le Guin
Pat Bean is a writer, avid birder, hiker and passionate nature observer with wanderlust in her soul. She spent nine years living and traveling in a small RV. She now lives in Tucson with Scamp, a rescue who was supposed to be a Schnauzer mix but turned out to be a Siberian Husky-Shih Tzu mix who is as stubborn as his owner, her granddaughter says. She was also a journalist for 37 years, and can be reached at patbean@msn.com
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