As promised, here are a few photos previously unattached to any posts, although I seriously suspect that other versions appear in various earlier posts. I just found these worth repeating as I am now finding them again.
The bird at the top of the post is a Townsend’s Solitaire I saw it in New Mexico in 2012.
For all the Ruby-crowned Kinglets I have photographed without their ruby crowns, I felt it was worth sharing this one. This one from April 22, 2014 taken at Lake Shore East Park, which I used to frequent when I worked downtown in Chicago.
Then I took too many photos on October 16, 2014, of a Harris’s Sparrow that was in Lurie Garden.
I had a Kentucky Warbler in 2014, also likely at Lake Shore East Park.
I couldn’t resist adding this American Crow shot. I spent years hanging out with the Crows on my lunch hour.
This rainbow was somewhere in Central or South America on February 26, 2015. The bird is a Magnificent Frigatebird.
Then there was a Townsend’s Solitaire in Millennium Park on April 28, 2016.
And on June 26, 2016, I saw a Yellow-headed Blackbird at the Gooselake Natural Area when the water levels were better.
And last for now, a little video of some Leaf Cutter Ants from one of my tropical trips.
By publishing this post, these items are no longer “unattached.” I have many more such items to go through, which will likely inspire another post sometime in the not-too-distant future. If nothing else, I am now curious to find the original photos sometime wherever they reside on external hard drives. They might be worth looking at while I enter my old trip lists into eBird. It never ends…
Yes, WP says that I have unattached pictures too, but I can’t understand how they happened. I must have put pictures in the media library and not used them. It seems very strange.
I thought maybe 10 years ago I was just loading everything and then picking and choosing for a post and not deleting the unused photos, but I can’t remember back that far… and now that I have been merrily deleting so-called “unattached” items, if I look back to posts from those years, some have holes in them. I really didn’t want this to become a Huge Project.
So far, the photos I put in this post still come up “Unattached” so I guess my assumptions were incorrect.
Not to mention I could swear that a few weeks ago I wasn’t anywhere near running out of space, so to speak. I think strange things happened when the upgrade to JetPack occurred and the post editor features as well. One person commented on a very early post that no recording was there and I investigated and replaced it. But I am sure I never removed it.
So I guess I can just decide how much time I want to invest in restoring or reviving old posts. In my spare time… Right now I have to go sing in a multifaith Thanksgiving evening service… Grateful for diversion. 🙂
Nice retrospect: I also saw the Townsend in New Mexico near Taos. My Thanksgiving bird was the Takahe. Keep going back in your files.
Thanks, Bob. I think at some point you suggested I should go back through my photos and now I feel a looming obsession to not just clean up my blog but streamline it as well…
Congratulations on the Takahe. And good timing for you, as we are expecting a foot of snow tomorrow.