Saturday's Critters #291 & 10th Blog Anniversary

Welcome to Saturday's Critters!

If you love all God's creatures like I do and also like to blog about them and take critter photos this is where you can share your critter post. Link up your post and share your critters, join in with my critter party ! You can share any kind of critters the real ones, pretend ones, statues and paintings, a new or old post!

For my 10th blog anniversary I thought I would share some of my favorite birds & critters photos from previous post over the years.  I created mosaics so there will not be too long of a photo post. I have added many lifers to my list during the past 10 years and during my travels. 

Thank you to all my visitors, I have enjoyed visiting your blogs as much as I enjoy making my own post. 
I am trying to share these in date order, but all photos will be from 2009-2019.  Please click on images for larger viewing.  

I also included links back to each individual post or you can click on any of the various labels I have on my side bar.   



Photos from 2009-2014 Goldie Girl

Our first dogs are below are Sunshine a yellow lab, Daisy a Golden Retriever, Sierra a Golden Retriever daughter of Daisy and Maui a chocolate lab is a son of Sunshine.  In the middle top photo is all four of these dogs.  

Various photos and from 2009-2019 my Maryland back yard birds: 

In November 2012, I was lucky to see a few Evening Grosbeaks at my feeders, Cape May Warbler, Screech owl, Eastern Bluebird, Pine Warblers with a Downy Woodpecker, Black-throated Blue Warbler, Worm-eating Warbler, Northern Parula times 2, Great-crested Flycatcher, Indigo Bunting, Rose-breasted Groabeak, Nashville Warbler, Black-throated Green Warbler, Bluebirds.

March 2010,  Costa Rica

Keel-billed Toucan, Collared Aracari, Crimson-fronted Parakeet,Montezuma Oropendola,  Blue-Gray Tanager, Amazon Kingfisher, Ringed Kingfisher, Great Potoo.  I have many more Costa Rica birds that are not included on the mosaic.  

Below the mosaic has various images and dates from trips to Washington State. We drove a loop around the Cascade Mountains, Stehekin WA in  Sept 2010 ,  we visited the Olympic Nat'l Park and Sequim in  October 2015 and in May 2017 we visited Mt Rainier Nat'l Park, Sequim, Olympic Nat'l park and Ocean Shores WA. 

American Dipper, American Pipit, Black Turnstone, Black Oystercatcher, Pigeon Guillemot, Western Grebe, Rhinoceros Auklet, Chestnut-backed Chickadee, California Quail, Spotted Towhee, Golden-crowned Sparrow, Oregon Junco, Gray Jay, Elk, Stellar's Jay, Anna's Hummingbird, Bald Eagle, Band-tailed Pigeon.

November 2011,  Panama

Green Kingfisher, Tropical Kingbird, White-whiskered Puffbird, Sloth, Capuchin Monkey, Grey-headed Chachalaca, Long-billed Hermit, White-necked Jacobin, Blue-crowned Manakin, Keel-billed Toucan, Brown Pelican, Magnificent Frigatebird, Blue-footed Booby

April 2012 Curacao & Oregon 2012

Caribbean Flamingo, Bananaquit, Bare-eyed Pigeon, parakeet, Crested Caracara, Curacao Yellow Warbler, Black-faced Grassquit, Saffron Finch, Rufous-collared Sparrow, Trupial Kacho Yellow Oriole, Trupial Oriole, Magnificent Frigatebird. 

October 2013 New Mexico & Texas

Gambel's Quail, Northern Harrier, Roadrunner, Lark Bunting, sheep, Cave Swallows, Say's Phoebe, Black Phoebe, Townsend's Solitaire, Sage Thrasher, Canyon Towhee, Rock Wren, Pyrrhuloxia, Less Goldfinch, Ladder-backed Woodpecker, Sandhill Cranes, Quail.

May 2014 Belize, I am sharing two mosaics with a lot of Belize birds, but they do not show all the birds we saw on that trip.

Olive-throated Parakeet, Collared Aracari, Social Flycatcher, Royal Flycatcher, Crimson-collared Tanager, Masked Tityra, Yellow-winged Tanager, White-collared Seedeater, Roadside Hawk, Violet Saberwing, Rufous-tailed Hummingbird, Vermilion Flycatcher, Yellow-faced Grassquit, Yellow-bellied Elaenia, Violaceous Trogon.

Ringed Kingfisher, Green Kingfisher, Wattled Jacana, Northern Jacana, Kingbird, Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher, Howler Monkey, Brown Jay, Black-cheeked Woodpecker, Yellow-tailed Oriole, Bare-throated Tiger Heron. 

September 2014 Colorado

Below are the Stellar's Jay, unknown duck, Common Mergenser, Junco and another Stellar's Jay

Western Bluebird, Pygmy Nuthatch, baby Barn Swallows, Pika, Grouse, Mountain Chickadee, Magpie, Elk, Lincoln's Sparrow and a baby Moose.

March 2015 Florida also may include images from our Florida trips in 2013, 2015, 2016-17 and 2019.

Feb & March 2016 we took road trips to Tennessee, Virginia and we lived in Florida from Oct 2016 thru March 2017. 

Tennessee Sandhill Cranes, Eastern Bluebird, Mockingbird, Yellow-rumped Warbler

2017 in May we traveled to Washington state,
 the  June 2017 Delaware Water Gap  

Below a Baltimore Oriole, Waterthrush, Cedar Waxwing, Gray Catbird, Wood Thrush.

and Sunset Beach Nov 2017 North Carolina

Bald Eagles on the beach, Brown Pelicans fly by, Semipalmated Plovers, Pelicans and Gulls, Black Skimmers and Gulls on Sunset Beach. 

May 2018 was a road trip to Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia 

Below various images from our road trip 2018, A Spotted Sandpiper, Song Sparrow, Mammoth Cave Cricket, Deer, Wild Turkeys, Tiger Swallowtail butterflies, Indigo Bunting, Great-crested Flycatcher, Yellow-billed Cuckoo. 

I can't not leave out my favorite park, we visited Shenandoah Nat'l Park many times over the last 10 years.  

I plan to keep on blogging and visiting all my favorite blogs. Thank you for all your past visits. 






Combining this post with the following memes for the week. Have a happy new week!


Thanks to Anni @ I'd Rather Be Birding

Thanks to Angie, the host of Mosaic Monday

Thanks to Lady Fi, the host of Our World Tuesday

I appreciate and thanks again to everyone who links up their post today and years past. Thank you for all the wonderful comments !