Backyard Wild Turkey

Thanks to Debbie (daughter of Ruth next door) for calling me when she saw this hen.

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State Parks Trip

As part of my effort to visit all 53 state parks, I finished off all the West Tennessee parks last week and have a sample photo of each at http://www.pbase.com/charliedoggett/travel_state_parks_west
Eventually I will have a gallery for each individual park with many more photos! But for this nature blog, I thought I would share two of the wildlife photos made last week:

Dragonfly at Big Cypress Tree State Park

Butterfly at Natchez Trace State Park

Baby Blue Birds

Baby Blue Birds

Iris Time!

Irises standing tall in the Woodlands

Front Door Wreath Babies

One of my neighbors, Frances Carver, has a bird nest in the spring wreath on her front door. I tried making several shots with my pocket camera and none are very great, but this shows two of the three "babies" who should be flying out soon.

Rainy Day Green

The overabundance of rain has made our Woodlands bright green