Water Birds and a Call for Help~

 Happy weekend to everyone who may view this post.

It is difficult for me to complain and I hate to, as I am really a very happy person.

Google is really an awesome program and it is also challenging for me, especially.  

I do not understand the whole group concept, I do not understand why messages and comments have to be in 3 separate tabs, and not together...I use Facebook for my social media and cannot take more time on Google to touch base with others as well, though I would love that.  

Groups, circles, what does all of that mean, exactly?

Trying to make my way through this seems futile at times, for I no longer even recognize my behind the scenes action of my blog, and yet I long so much to understand how this all works.  

A couple of blogs on here now, I and cannot even reply, or comment on their posts any longer and have not been able to find out why with Google help.  

One of our blogging friends said to me.

"I think that the search engine that one is using is independent of any access problems regarding messages. Having said that, there have been problems of late voiced from many bloggers! "

Is there no real person to contact, or chat with using Google? 

I apologize, however, this is just frustrating for me, and I want it to be made easier, so that my blogging experience can be enjoyable once again.  

Everyone else seems to have come through the changes beautifully, but I still get error notices like crazy and I am so afraid to change anything, as it may make it all just go bye bye. 

All of my images still have to be uploaded in the most primitive fashion and I have no solutions that will make it all work once again. 

If someone in USA, wants to ring me up and give me a quick tutorial, that would sure be awesome... inbox message me and we can make arrangements for call.

Take a deep breath, whew ;)

About my bird ID's...

There may be more, or less of what I have shown on my labeling for this post. 

Lots of birds very new to me this past season~

Remember to double click on the image, to view a larger slide show of the images shared

   

 I will be linking up with Mary at:

Mosaic Monday

at: 

  http://dearlittleredhouse.blogspot.

As well as I am linking up with Stewart at:

   Wild Bird Wednesday

(http://paying-ready-attention-gallery.blogspot.com.au/) 

Heading Home Through Wyoming and South Dakota~

This will be my final entry from our vacation journey last month, and I must admit, I am very thankful that we went, that we stayed with the plan, even with government Shutdown...
We had a wonderful time, even with all of the many obstacles and saw great beauty everywhere that we went. 
Thank you each and everyone, who has stuck this out with me, for I know these have been long shares, but I just had so much I wanted to show you.
I am just guessing that the birds flying above are possibly more of the White-winged Scoters, but I am fine with being corrected~

Remember to double click on the image, to view a larger slide show of the images shared

 

I am linking up with Mary for:
"Mosaic Monday"

at: 

 

 http://dearlittleredhouse.blogspot.

 

and

 

I am linking up with Stewart at:

 

   Wild Bird Wednesday

        (http://paying-ready-attention-gallery.blogspot.com.au/)
 

I will also be linking up with Sylvia at:

SkyWatch Friday

 

I invite you to check out more 'Skywatch Friday' posts from around the world at:

 

http://skyley.blogspot.com/

 

 

We drove from Southeastern Montana down into Wyoming and then South Dakota, on our last big leg, before returning home.

There were large Raptor nests like this everywhere out West...some are manmade, some are natural and some are built on platforms that man has placed in certain places~

 

 

Me with my puppy, oh my not such a puppy any longer. 
Silveit already weighs more than Meaka~
 

 

 

 

 

The land, the scenes everywhere you looked, were just stunning~
 

 

This was really sudden, taken through the closed car window and very far away, and yet...there it was a Golden Eagle. 
I had not seen any the entire journey, but when I saw this one, I knew what it was right away~
 

Blackbirds raiding plowed fields~
 

 

 

The land is so wide open, so pure in many ways...so much untouched by man's hand and I loved the sky touching earth feel that we got.
Some of the old homesteads and barns were relics and we also saw signs of other kinds of relics too, like this old caboose~
 

The sky in Wyoming just minutes before sunset and a small herd of Mule Deer, bidding us farewell, before we turned in for the evening~
 

 

Back in South Dakota again...and it was not as cold as when we had come through only 3 weeks before~

More Western Red-tailed Hawks along our route home...soon we would cross over into Eastern Red-tailed Hawk country~

I found the fields of spent Sunflowers absolutely glorious...the textures that I was able to capture, reminded me of beautiful Herringbone/Harris tweed~

 

 

We have now crossed over into Eastern Red-tailed Hawk country and that means we are closer to being home~

 

 

 

 

Fields of Indian Corn, reminded me of my beloved mother who always received a fresh bouquet from her cousin once a year~

 

Eastern Juvenile Red-tailed Hawk~

 

 

I have edited this Classic Diner with a touch of HDRish and it just seemed to shout out to me~

 

 

 

Loved this old church building and also edited a touch of HDR to it as well...

just for the fun of it~

 

 

This single image below...I have no idea why...but I just really liked it~

 

 

 

This barn was actually photographed in Iowa and that meant we had only 3 more states to cross through before being home again.

Thank you again for coming along~