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| Baltimore Oriole day at the Lake |
| Baltimore Orioles June 9, 2005 We had searched for Baltimore orioles all year, ever since the first of spring. We found a few here and a few there, but not exactly any images we were 100 percent proud of, if you know what I mean. On Thursday, June 9th my husband said, “Let’s go grab us a hamburger at Mickey D’s and I said, “how about while we’re down there in town, let’s run on over to the little lake and see what kind of birds we run into! He said, “O.K. grab your camera”! Well, we only had one camera to grab and it was mine, because we had just left his in the shop, being worked on. We did not know exactly how it happened, but the lens just kept getting dirt inside it, and it bugged him to death, so we sent it back to the main company to have it checked out. It’s was so hot that day, the sun was blaring like it was coming from an Arizona desert, and there was absolutely no wind breeze. Hubby pulled himself up a piece of shade tree and just sit there and sipped on his Dasani Water just kind of relaxing like he was on a Florida vacation. Then I said, I am going to take a walk across the railroad tracks, there’s a little strip of woods running adjacent to the railroad tracks and I heard a lot of racket coming from that direction. I started in that direction and just before I got there, I heard this terrible screaming coming from some kind of birds in this humongous tall tree, They were flying from limb to limb, searching and looking like they had lost something important. They would get right in one another’s faces and squawk and holler. I thought, “what in the world are they going on about”? I didn’t figure it all out until much later. Well, I was just kind of stunned because they were both Baltimore orioles and they didn’t know that I was within miles, they were so interested in talking to one another. I honestly thought they were discussing building a nest in that big tree. Well I aimed my camera and had a Baltimore oriole shoot! I thought that maybe I should scream for hubby, but if I did, it would scare them away, so I just had all the fun by myself! LOL After I aimed my camera and clicked for some minutes, I happened to look over my left shoulder and there was a very lonely man sitting on top the railroad tracks. Well, I guess hubby got bored and walked up there and sit down, exploring the scenes from the East woods. I made a little noise and motioned for him to come and join me. I said, "look up" and then I reached him my camera and said, “Look they’re Baltimore Orioles, have fun”! We just got kind of quiet, watching those two birds, a male and a female, still screaming and hollering. We took about a hundred pictures and then decided to walk on down the path. We left them in that tree still being very loud. We walked on down the path and pulled us up a piece of bank on the side of a little hill. We were just sitting there enjoying Gods creations, then a little song sparrow parked right beside us and decided to sing to us. It was absolutely beautiful. As we were sitting there, hubby said, “I want you to look at that”! A big black cat had slithered down the road and was contemplating on having a lunch of our beautiful birds. I watched him as he sneaked on down the road up over the railroad tracks and then I told hubby, “he is not going to have lunch here today” I got up and was screaming at him, “scat out of here, get scat. Well, as I was chasing the cat, lo and behold I came face to face with a baby bird, he was parked right beneath the tree where the Baltimore Orioles were screaming at one another and his big eyes just stared me down. I was mystified and stopped dead in my tracks and I was more scared than he was. Then I thought, “you silly woman, aim that camera and I did”. About the time I started to aim my camera, from across the railroad tracks came a flash of black and orange, he flew right at me with that tail fanned and then decided to retreat when he decided that I was a mortal human. That baby Oriole sat there just long enough for me to snap three beautiful pictures and then he raised those wings and flew off and met his dad there in those beautiful woods across the railroad tracks. Well needless to say, I thank God for all our magic moments, just me and hubby and two Baltimore Orioles and baby makes three. ©Mary Alice Bowles: 6/11/05 |
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