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THE BACK STORY- My Controlled Chaos

http://robins-chaos.blogspot.com

A personal, natural history as told by the author and photographer through narratives and photographs

• Added on: Nov 3rd, 2009
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: Robin Robinson
• Listed in: Natural Photo Blogs
• Tags: Nature wildlife birding maine coastal robin robinson photography

Recent Posts

• On The First Day Of Christmas My True Love Gave To Me......Dusky Grouse?

  Posted on Saturday December 5th, 2009 at 08:09 in partridge, leeks, ramps, mourning doves, the twelve days of christmas, braised grouse, dusky grouse, maine nature wildlife robin robinson photography canon

      Tis' the season when even grown adults hope for things for Christmas from loved ones. If I had a billion dollars, I'd give all sorts of things to the ones I love whether it was Christmas or not. Over the course of the year, I often...

• Waste Not, Want Not

  Posted on Monday November 30th, 2009 at 07:39 in Nature, canon, wildlife, maine, thanksgiving, bald eagle, robin robinson, bathrobe birding, red flannel hash

  One of my favorite things about Thanksgiving is the left-overs. In fact, my meal preparations are with that very thing in mind. I grew up in a family of left-overs, not just food, either. We had 'left-over' or hand-me-down clothes, shoes, used furnit...

• Ya Win Some, Ya Lose Some...........

  Posted on Saturday November 28th, 2009 at 13:04 in NASCAR, Turkey, birding, maine, thanksgiving, sharp shinned hawk, phippsburg, robin robinson photography, dale earnardt

  Dale Earnhardt said "Ya win some, ya lose some and ya wreck some." Of course, he was talking about NASCAR racing, but I'm talking turkey. For at least thirty years, I've been roasting colossal birds for the holidays. Getting the biggest turkey I coul...

• Not Your Grandmother\'s Loons

  Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 09:35 in water birds, common loon, maine coast, red-throated loon, robin robinson, birding maine, birding phippsburg maine

  The classic, black and white Common Loon is a regular on calendars, wall paper borders, coffee mugs and any chachkee for the tourist trade in North America where there is a body of water. The haunting yodel, which only males produce, can be heard acr...

• An Argument For Double Bagging

  Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 08:37 in bat removal, little brown bat, bats in maine, bath maine city of ships

  This is a Little Brown Bat, the most common type of bat in Maine and North America. They frequently roost in buildings, which is how I happen to be able to photograph this one. We have  friends who own a gorgeous, Georgian style home in Bath, 'T...

• Last Call - Porcelain Berries

  Posted on Monday November 16th, 2009 at 15:50 in invasive plants, feverfew, ampelopsis, porcelain berries

  This first photo is of Porcelain Berries (Ampelopsis) which have weaved their way through the last blossoms of Feverfew. Porcelain berries start out deep purple, changing as they age to this incomparable, Wedgwood blue. I suppose birds eat them, thou...

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