Saturday's Critters # 490

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Hello and happy Saturday!

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Hiking and birdwatching is always fun at the Susquehanna River State Park. Spring time,  the wildflowers along the trail in the park are a beautiful sight. An added bonus is stopping at the Conowingo Dam and fishing pier to see the Bald Eagles. 

1. In April lots of  migrating  Bald Eagles can be seen at the Conowingo Dam and Susquehanna River. We also saw a Bald Eagle on a nest across the river. 

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2. If you click and enlarge this photo, you can see quite a few Bald Eagles sitting on the rocks next to the river. Both adult and juveniles are hanging out together. 

3. A proud looking Bald Eagle perched in a tree above the parking lot. 

4. The island in the middle of the river near the dam is a Great Blue Heron rookery.  

It is great to see these herons doing so well, they were also seen up and down the river. Perched on rocks and looking for food and taking care of their nest. 

5. It was a Cormorant day, they were everywhere we looked.  

A Double-crested Cormorant tree.  

There had to a thousand or more Cormorants, they were near the dam, on the rocks up and down the river and in the trees.  

6. At the Susquehanna River State Park we stopped at the picnic area and walked around a small pond.  We saw the American Robins, Dark-eyed Juncos, Tree Swallows, lots of turtles, Pileated Woodpecker, Mourning Dove and an Eastern Phoebe. 

7. The Susquehanna River trail is a great place for a walk to see the wildflowers. Some I am not sure of their names, but I saw the Dutchman's Breeches, lots of Bluebells and the bottom two (Possible Cutleaf Toothwort and Lesser Celandine) left are unknown and the pretty weeping cherry was on the ride out of the park. 

8. The Bluebells were starting to bloom, another week or so they would look wonderful. They were all along the trail.  We have to go back and check them out again.

We saw a carpet of these pretty yellow flowers, I am not sure of their name.  I am guessing about the id of these yellow blooms but there is something similar and invasive called Lesser Celandine.

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I am also linking up to Anni's blog party found here I'd Rather B Birding   Anni always has some beautiful birds to be seen on her blog, check it out! Also, I am also linking up to Heidrun's Mosaic Monday  I hope you can stop by and visit Heidrun and check out the Mosaic Monday post.