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Saturday’s Critters – Ray Harral Nature Center

We continue to get a lot of rain here in Tulsa. When it rains and I want to go hiking I use one of the sustainable trails in town rather than splash through the mud on my regular haunts. So this time I went to Ray Harral Nature Center in Broken Arrow, OK. Their trails are mainly asphalt with some gravel.

There are always lots of birds at Ray Harral but I hardly ever see them. At least with the Merlin App I can figure out what they are. I got lucky this time.

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I spotted a couple of cardinals and they stood still long enough for me to get a fuzzy photo (or maybe phuzzy photo) of them. One in a shrub.

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And one on the ground.

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I saw a couple squirrels as well. In town they are not shy at all, out in the woods they hide. So I got one in a tree.

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And another on the ground.

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And this is our son, Logan, captured mowing the yard with my trailcam. He got offered a job yesterday (and accepted it) as a full-time paralegal for a law firm here in town. He’s worked very hard to get to this point. We are very proud of him. He’s going to have to give up shorts and tee shirts in exchange for a shirt and tie but hey, he can do it.

I’m linking with Saturday’s Critters.

Shadow Shot Sunday – On the Trail

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It is Autumn and with the lower sun and the less foliage on the trees it seems that there is more shadows to look at than summertime.

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I took these with my Nikon AW110 point and shoot. It has in-camera filters. I use the “Toy Camera” setting sometimes. So I can proudly say that these are SOOC, right? With digital photography especially I do not really know what that means?

I’m linking with Shadow Shot Sunday.