Saturday's Critters # 431

Welcome to Saturday's Critters!

Hello and happy Saturday!

 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!

These images are from our local walks with the grand-dogs, on the fire roads and to the lake. We did go on one walk without the dogs, to see the local Bald Eagle's Nest. It's just a short drive around to the other side of our lake to see the nest. Sorry doggies, they are not getting inside my car, they only take local walks on our fire roads.

1. Feb 22nd,  a large flock of Common Merganser were seen at our local lake.  Not sure if everyone will notice, but on the middle right side of the photo I captured a Belted Kingfisher sitting in a tree. There is a Merganser in the water right underneath of the Kingfisher. 

2. My camera's zoom is not that good, a fuzzy look at the Mergansers.  There are three males ( white with green heads)  and three female Common Mergansers. 

3.  On Feb 24th  at the local Friendly Farms pond, we saw lots of Canada Geese and Ring-necked ducks. 

4. These photos were from my cell phone, no zoom but an overview of the pond , geese and ducks. 

5. On March 1st we took the grand-dogs to another one of our local fire roads. This was a 2 mile walk. 

6.  On 3-2-22 we left the dogs at home and drove around the lake to see how the Bald Eagles nest is doing. Below are Trumpeter Swans, Common Mergansers, Bald Eagles, Ring-necked Ducks and a Canvasback Duck and Canada Geese at Friendly Farms pond.

7.  On 3-2-22, at first I thought these swans were the Tundra Swans.  I posted them on the Maryland's bird page and was told they are the Trumpeter Swans.  Not a lifer for me, a first time sighting of these swans at our local lake. 

8. Below are the Barred Owl, hubby , Winnie and Nibbles going for a walk and some views of the fire roads. This was a 1.3 round trip walk. 

9.   On 3-3-22 a zoomed photo of the Barred Owl. We saw this owl on the walk back to the house. 

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