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Just Me and My Peeps

Well, at least I was strong out of the gate this month.  Unfortunately, things have slowed down a bit as of late due to massive amounts of spring cleaning taking place around the house.  Cleaning brought a bonus with it this year.  Linda was continually making comments regarding my Halloween Lab still sitting in the middle of our newly remodeled basement.  Personally, I think this is a fabulous place for animatronics construction, but I can see her point – it has been there pretty much since last August.  Decided it was best to heed the warnings and cleaned out the small room previously used for the remodeling staging.  I must say it looks pretty nice and might put a project post on it when I get time – expecting big things now from the evil depths of the new lab!  Knowing my readers have been waiting patiently, decided it would be prudent to dust the cobwebs off the blog.

Say hello to my little feathered friend.
Birding Texas November 2013
Want to spend a day nose deep in reference books, try to ID a non-breeding adult shorebird.  You have to admire the experts in this field since they basically ALL look alike – at least to me. For starters, I usually check the regions to see if there can be any narrowing there.  This particular specimen was taken at Galveston, Texas back in Nov 2013.  Well that did little to narrow the field since the Texas Gulf is a favored stomping ground for all the Peep breeds..
Birding Texas November 2013

Hit the jump to find out what this Peep is!

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Floodle Camouflage

Howdy everyone!  I’m back with another post in another desperate attempt to hit my quota this month.  To give a little insight into the workflow that occurs around here at LifeIntrigued, there are times when I panic and times when I’m just acutely aware that my output needs to be ramped up.  Panic is reserved for those times I have nothing in the hopper, no pictures processed and worse of all – no content ideas.  Contrasting that with the much lower entry on the concern scale where I know I’m late but most of the pictures are processed already and best of all, there’s a topic already earmarked for at least the quota amount.

Black-Bellied Plover shot at Fort Meyers

Fortunately for me, this month falls into the latter.  The pictures for this post and the next are already processed and the other topics have at least the theme identified with the raw shots already taken.  The best thing about having the picture processing done for the post is I can write it up from just about anywhere there is an Internet connection.  Take for example today where I’m coming to  you from a lonely road near Alton IL.  We were down here doing some errands and a little birding.  Thanks to Linda agreeing to drive – we get to spend the travel time cranking posts out – yeah!

Black-Bellied Plover shot at Fort Meyers

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