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These chicks seem to be growing into full-size birds so fast. I had no idea they go from eggs to flying within weeks. Well, I’m jumping ahead of things a bit, they haven’t learned to fly yet BUT!! they are big now. Here are a few pics of the birds. This first pic was a few days ago. Second pic is one of the parents waiting to attack me. Last two are pics from this morning, see the difference in the last two from the first one? Lots of growing!
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The highlight of my day yesterday was these newborn geese trying their hardest to climb up the steep bank of a pond. Their parents, blessed with fully functional wings, made it up but the six goslings had major issues.
I could try to explain it more but nothing would quite do the justice of what I witnessed. Thankfully, I hit record on my camera and captured it all on video. Check it out and I hope this helps make your day a bit more cheery, you silly goose.
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-Out of the Wilderness
Big Sky is one of the best, if not THE best show on TV right now. This is thanks in part to the acting, of course, but how about the music? Songs always seem to be perfectly placed in the scenes. I’ve written about past episodes which you can check at the bottom of this post, but for now, let’s get to the music playing as the soundtrack of episode 16, the season 1 finale.
Kings of Leon “100,000 People” – This song plays very briefly underneath a conversation between Arthur/Ronald and his girlfriend Scarlet. My only complaint is that it was not enough of a great band. Check out the full track below.
Johnny Mathis “Chances Are” – This song plays while Ronald and agent Mark are talking in a jail/holding facility. Ronald is creepy, and I’ll leave it at that. Meanwhile, with the song still playing, Scarlet makes a mysterious phone call.
Heart “Crazy On You” – The final montage includes this song playing as the action and basically the tease for next season unfolds. No spoilers but part of the scene is Cassie walking with a high-powered rifle and I gotta say, yes, yes, and yes! In the words of another Heart song, Cassie is a “barracuda” you do NOT want to mess with.
To find out what music played in previous episodes, click on the links below.
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-Out of the Wilderness
Lately I’ve been writing about birds, and I’m very ok with that! Birds have been around for… what, like at least a decade right? But only recently have I been interested in them. It mostly came from when I started taking pictures of birds at a Florida beach. Check out a few photos of eagles, cormorants, woodpeckers, and more in either of these posts…
Land of the free, nothing but bald eagle photos
Back here in Tennessee, though, it’s only been a few days since these robins hatched and their skin is already darkening. It amazes me how quickly they are looking more and more like the birds they will become. So if you’ve been following along, you know there were four eggs in the nest in front of my house, three eggs which have hatched and a lone blue egg still resting in the nest. My guess is it won’t hatch, sadly, but what happens to it remains to be seen. Sad news aside, here are a few recent pics, including the first photos of mom and dad! They were hovering (like any good protective parent?) above me right before they dive bombed me for interrupting their lives… again.
Is it just me or are they growing rapidly? Do you think the last egg will hatch? Let me know in the comments.
-Out of the Wilderness
A quick update on the robin eggs in my front yard that I’ve been posting about… In the beginning there were four eggs. It was a fun surprise to discover the nest when I was mowing and ever since then, I’ve been peeking in to check the progress. The mom is quick to flutter away when I get close which gives me a chance to see the eggs, or as I recently updated, the two newborns. Well, it’s time for another update!
The two little hatchlings had to make room for a third because, yes, now three of the four eggs have hatched!
At this stage it’s difficult to discern one from the other because they’re basically hairless, and flop over wherever they are until they get some muscles. But as far as I can tell, they’re doing fine.
They are still waiting on their last little brother or sister to come along and then the family will be complete. I’ll be sure to post updates once that happens, hopefully in the next few days!
I love this last picture where one of the birds is resting on the unhatched blue egg. It’s like they just wanted to keep it warm until it cracks.
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