Tennessee - Strut Your Spring Stuff (Oak Ridge, Norris: tree, build, distance)

[Tinman313]

Originally Posted by Kim Gallagher

Tinman I think the rather large bird near the shore is a great blue heron. We have one that visits us in our driveway every afternoon and we saw them up at my cottage on the St Lawrence River so they do migrate pretty far north. This is regarding Bones pictures,I didn't attach this quote right sorry!

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[Beretta]

Driving through a Maryville subdivision today spotted these turtles (I used my 200mm lens but this is the best I could do, also used a polarizing filter; no photoshop):

Three's A Crowd:



Get outta here!



Two's Company :



One is the loneliest number:

[Kim Gallagher]

Originally Posted by SmokyMtnGal

Driving through a Maryville subdivision today spotted these turtles (I used my 200mm lens but this is the best I could do, also used a polarizing filter; no photoshop):

Three's A Crowd:



Get outta here!



Two's Company :



One is the loneliest number:

The pictures that everyone posts are so wonderful, its gives the people on this forum who have yet to visit your wonderful state an idea of what we all have to look foward to when we do finally make it there. Thank you all!!!

[alleycat]

I work at MetroCenter, which is a large office park just northwest of downtown Nashville. There's a small lake there which is full of turtles (and carp). You can actually sit there and feed the turtles. They'll come right up to you. Some of them are as large as dinner plates.

[LauraC]

I haven't seen any turtles since being here. These photos were all taken in Norris on Sunday. I don't know the names of the flowers but they were all growing wild. I'll tell you where before each pic.

These first set of pics were taken in Norris Dam State Park when it was overcast early in the morning. That's an American Robin and an Eastern Bluebird on the green fence neark the park's pool.

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[LauraC]

These pics were taken in and around Norris Marina. I think one of the yellow flower photos are of daffodils. Don't know what the other yellow flower is. They were not in the marina itself but on the hill above it.

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[LauraC]

This first bird spotted at the Museum of Appalachia is a European Starling. The second is a Blue Jay. I don't know what he has in his mouth. The last is a cabin on the grounds.

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[LauraC]

I don't know what any of these flowers are but all were growing wild in Norris.

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[alleycat]

Great photos, Laura, but that's not a robin in your first set.

The Jay just looks like he's got a grass stem to buy a nest with.

[AlisonL]

Great photos Laura. Alleycat is right, that is not a robin...its a female bluebird. Bluejay is definitely gathering nesting materials.
Keep these great photos coming, as I definitely enjoy them.