Saturday's Critters! # 575

 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!

I want to wish all my blogging followers, Love, Joy and Peace this holiday season. Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah! 

Oct 7-9, we were visiting Chincoteague Island National seashore and wildlife refuge. These photos are from our 2nd day at the refuge. We watched the sunrise and the sunset, we saw lots of birds, the ponies, dolphins, Sika deer, a snake and butterflies.

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1. Sunrise on the Chincoteague Island National Seashore. 

2.  Brown Pelicans flying by.  

3. Various gulls on the beach. Ring-billed Gull, Laughing Gull and Great Black-backed Gull.

4. Sika Deer seen of the road to the beach. 

5. The Chincoteague ponies are always a favorite sight to see.

6. Warblers and a Brown Thrasher. 

7. A Black Rat Snake on the trail and a Buckeye Butterfly on the beach.

8. The Belted Kingfishers were found in their usual fishing spot.

The White Ibis were seen in high numbers, just one Great Blue Heron in the group below.

We saw 4 Tricolored Herons, below are two of the 4 seen with the White Ibis.

An Osprey flies by. 

A tree decorated with White Ibis.

Plenty of Sanderlings on the beach.  

A Great Blue Heron standing on a dead tree with a pretty sky.

We saw groups of Dolphins swimming by.

To end the day we watched the sun setting at Tom's Cove.

I am linking up to Heidrun's Mosaic Monday  I hope you can stop by and visit Heidrun and check out the Mosaic Monday post.

Thanks to all my visitors and for your past and present comments. Stop back to see any replies to your comments. I appreciate everyone who loves and respects wildlife. Thank you for linking up a critter post.

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Happy Monday

Wishing everyone a great day and a happy new week!

"Never ruin a good day by thinking about a bad yesterday. Let it go." 

"Holding on is believing there is only a past, letting go is knowing there is a future."

"We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone."

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Saturday's Critters # 574

  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!

Oct 7-9th, these photos are from our latest visit to Chincoteague Island NWR Virginia and Blackwater NWR, Cambridge Md. These are some of my favorite places to visit to see wildlife.  

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1. On the way to Chincoteague Island Virginia we pass by Blackwater NWR in Cambridge Maryland.  We drove through the refuge on the wildlife drive one loop before getting back on the road the Virginia. 

2. Chincoteague Ponies, the main attraction for visiting the Chincoteague Island NWR.

3. Belted Kingfisher

4.  Great Egret

5. Gulls, Cormorants and Terns. The Laughing Gull seems to be the most common gull seen at the refuge. The bottom photos shows the gulls with two different Terns, one of the Terns has more of a yellow bill and the other is really orange-red colored bill.  

6. There are a few Terns seen at this wildlife refuge.  The Royal Terns, Caspian Terns and the Forster's Tern. 

The Sanderlings were plentiful and fun to watch on the beach. They like to run back and forth to the water. 

7. Tricolored Herons

8. Chincoteague Island National Seashore.

9. Tom's Cove sunset, Chincoteague Island NWR 

I am linking up to Heidrun's Mosaic Monday  I hope you can stop by and visit Heidrun and check out the Mosaic Monday post.

Thanks to all my visitors and for your past and present comments. Stop back to see any replies to your comments. I appreciate everyone who loves and respects wildlife. Thank you for linking up a critter post.

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Happy Monday!

 Wishing everyone a great day and a happy new week!

"Life is short, do what makes you happy."

"Stay positive, be happy."

"We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone."

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Saturday's Critters # 573

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!

I am trying to catch up with my photos, these are from my backyard, our walks on the local fire roads and to the lake, Hashawha Nature Center and the local NCR bike trail.

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1. September is the time to see the Warblers in my backyard, they love the berries on the Devil's Walking Stick. Below are the Cape May Warbler, female Cardinal and a young deer in my yard.

2. The Lantana plant and the Fuchsia were looking beautiful throughout September, a female Scarlet Tanager was seen at the same berries.  The Hummingbird and butterflies love these plants.

3. The mosaic below is made of photos from our walk at the Hashawha Nature Center, Below are the American Robin, House Finch, Deer , Groundhog, female House Finch, Gray Catbird and a unknown warbler hiding behind some leaves.

4. The Eastern Bluebirds, 4-5 bluebirds were hanging around the birdhouse. They might use the house during the colder nights to stay warm.

5. Sept 22, our walk to the Prettyboy Reservoir. We saw a Green Heron and just a few leaves were starting to turn pretty colors. 

The Green Heron look like it was hiding in the bushes on the lake shore.

6. September 23rd, I saw a female Rose-breasted Grosbeak at the Devil's Walking Stick berries. 

7. Below several mosaics are all from Sept 24, my backyard birds.  The Hermit Thrush was enjoying the berries. I saw two together on the Devil's Walking Stick, bottom left photo. 

On the same day as above and at the same back yard berries, are the Northern Parula, Cape May Warbler, Brown Thrasher and a female Scarlet Tanager. 

Below same day Sept 24 in my backyard, are the Northern Flicker and the Ruby-throated Hummingbird.

Again on the same day Sept 24, I found the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker eating the berries. 

The Peacock came for a visit to our deck, perched on the deck railing.

8. Sept 26, below more birds at the berries, the Black-throated Blue Warbler, Mourning Doves, Hermit Thrush, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, American Robin, Tennessee Warbler and a Northern Flicker.

9.  Not the best photo, looking through my bedroom window blind at the Pileated Woodpecker. Another bird that loves those berries on the Devil's Walking Stick.

10. Sept 29, the cottontail bunnies love our yard. I saw this one on our driveway.

Sept 30th, I heard the Gray Catbird knocking on our den window.  I took a few photos of the Catbird sitting in the Rhododendron right outside the window.

This post takes me through the end of September, I am still behind sharing my critter photos.  I hope you enjoyed the birds and wildlife.

Today is my son's birthday, Happy Birthday Brian!🎈🎂

I am linking up to Heidrun's Mosaic Monday  I hope you can stop by and visit Heidrun and check out the Mosaic Monday post.

Thanks to all my visitors and for your past and present comments. Stop back to see any replies to your comments. I appreciate everyone who loves and respects wildlife. Thank you for linking up a critter post.

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Happy Monday!

Wishing everyone a great day and a happy new week!

"Whatever your beliefs, spread love not hate."

East Paden Twin Bridge, Fishing Creek Township, Columbia County, Pennsylvania.

Our family has a lot of birthdays in early December. Happy Birthday,  today is my birthday, Dec 7 is my son's birthday and dear hubby's birthday is the 10th.  

"Today I choose JOY."

"We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone."

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Saturday's Critters # 572

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!

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1. Sept 8-10, we were on our Pennsylvania road trip heading to the Poconos and the Delaware Watergap area. We stopped at a rest area with a view of the Susquehanna River. I noticed a lot of Tree Swallows flying around catching bugs.  If you look closely you can see a few of the Swallows. 

2. The Twin Bridges was one of my favorites out of the four Covered Bridges we saw on this day. 

A view of the Twin Bridges. 

3. While taking photos of the covered bridge above, I noticed two Bald Eagles flying above us. 

4. One of the many painted picnic tables, this mural below had flowers, domestic goose and a deer with pumpkins. 

5. My favorite picnic table mural was the Raccoon murals below, it is cute. 

6. The Josiah Hess Covered Bridge.

7. Just upstream a bit, I watched a Great Blue Heron fishing. The heron caught a pretty good sized fish. 

8. This is one of two Great Blue Herons I saw near the creek. 

9. Below you can see the fish, it looked big to me. The heron dipped in the water or was it trying to move the fish around in it's beak. They swallow the fish headfirst goes it goes down smoothly. 

10. You can see below a lump in the back of the heron's neck, the lump is the fish after it was swallowed whole. 

11. I think the heron had to rest after the fish meal, I guess it takes a while to digest. 

I will post more of this trip soon, various waterfalls and the Delaware Watergap.

I am linking up to Heidrun's Mosaic Monday  I hope you can stop by and visit Heidrun and check out the Mosaic Monday post.

Thanks to all my visitors and for your past and present comments. Stop back to see any replies to your comments. I appreciate everyone who loves and respects wildlife. Thank you for linking up a critter post.

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