Saturday's Critters # 564

 Welcome to Saturday's Critters! Hello and Happy Saturday!

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These are images from August, as usual I am behind sharing my photos. The photos are from my backyard, our walks to the lake, a walk on the NCR bike trail and on the local fire roads. I have more Alaska photos to share, they are coming soon.

1. In August I seemed to be refilling my hummingbird feeders often. This male below sits close-by one feeder, chasing away any hummingbird that comes close. 

2. The Fritillary Butterfly along with the Black Swallowtails are common butterflies seen on our Buddleia Bush. 

3. Aug 11, one of my backyard Ruby-throated Hummingbirds. On the bottom row are the Tufted Titmouse.

4. Aug 16th my back yard bunny.

Our walk on the local fire road I found an Ovenbird, it was quiet and seemed to be watching us. 

5. Aug 18th , our walk to the lake. We saw a juvenile Bald Eagle, a Green Heron and the Canada Goose.

6. Aug 19th, a Black Bear was seen on our deck and it got into our trash can. This visit was almost  a month later than the previous bear visit. We thought it would be safe to put out our trash can.  The bear also drank water from the bowl we had out for the Peacock.  The previous Black Bear visit was on July 11th. I am not sure if this recent bear was one of the two that visited in July. The first bear sighting was on May 3rd, we were walking on our local fire road and we saw the bear foraging in forest along the trail. It is amazing we have seen more bears in our back yard than we saw in Alaska. 

7. Aug 20th our walk on the local NCR bike trail. We saw a few deer, wildflowers and an Eastern Phoebe hanging out near the river.

8. Aug 23rd, I finally was able to find two Monarch butterflies on our Buddleia Bush. Bottom row more common butterflies seen were the Fritillary butterflies. 

Aug 30th, the male Cardinal flies to the deck railing when he sees me come outside with the bag of peanut nuggets.

Aug 31st, our walk on one of the local fire roads at Prettyboy watershed. The birds on the top right photo are two Eastern Kingbirds, a Box Turtle, insects on milkweed plant, Eastern Phoebe and a White-breasted Nuthatch.

This post takes me to the end of August, except for two days we visited Bombay Hook NWR in Delaware. I will share those photos in a separate post.  

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.

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