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September 3, 2007

I'm finally back to taking and processing photographs...and yes, there are lots that never were put up.
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Ten thousand gallons of water storage arrived at our house last week...four 2500 gallon tanks.
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This longear sunfish made a nest in the creek--usually there's not water enough long enough, but this year there was. The male (this fish) guards the nest--that circle of gravel clear of algae--and drives off other fish. Other fish like this one. It was smaller than the sunfish, but he didn't want it in the nest anyway.
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This small frog, living in Owl Water, is a case of "eyes bigger than the stomach"--the end of a dragonfly is sticking out of its mouth, and there's a bulge (not as visible in this view) out its other side, where I'm guessing the head of the dragonfly has distended its stomach.
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Until last week, Westbrook was still flowing a little past the rock crossing we put in for the tractor. Now the water has receded...and as a result, there's a concentration of birds in the west woods, all coming to drink here, rather than at the artificial water of Owlspring. This shot is taken (standing) from the location of the chair I was in to take the next pictures.
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This waterthrush, a warbler, worked its way busily along the muddy edge of the pool, turning over leaves and bits of algae to find insects. I don't know enough about waterthrushes to know if this one is a Louisiana or a Northern. It's clearly spotted something, and has an almost heron-like concentration. Some bug is about to be lunch.
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Several different warblers were flitting in and out, but the only reasonably sharp pictures I got were of this bird, a Wilson's Warbler. Here it paused on the branch just long enough... And here it flew down to the water to drink and bathe. Drat the pesky branch between us.

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