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"Nature is the greatest place to heal and recharge."

"Nature is not a place to visit, it is home."

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

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Saturday's Critters # 629

    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!

"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir

Hubby and I for the last 35 years ( except for 5 1/2 months living in Lakeland Florida 2016-2017) are lucky to live so close to so much nature. The forest, the lake and trails are all walking distance and surround our house.  Miney loves these walks!

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1. A walk on the NCR trail beginning at Freeland , we were seeing the end of the Autumn colors. I heard and saw a lot of birds, but the only birds I was able to photograph were the Pileated Woodpecker and the Red-bellied Woodpecker.  

A view from the bike trail near Freeland, Maryland. 

2. I love to trying to capture some moon photos, a walk with Miney on the fire road at Prettyboy. 

3. The Blue Jays arrive quickly when I put out some of the peanut suet balls. 

4. A walk with hubby and Miney to the Prettyboy lake. A Belted Kingfisher was perched on a log sticking out of the lake. Somehow Miney got out of her harness and ran from hubby to where I was taking photos of the lake.  She managed to get her paws all muddy from walking onto the muddy shore of the lake. Then she ran back fast to hubby, we have never let her run free.  This was her first and only chance of getting loose. 

5. The peacock even on the cold days is roaming around our yard and the neighborhood, a Hawk sitting in a nearby tree. I am guessing it is a red-shouldered Hawk and a Northern Mockingbird sitting in a near by tree. 

6. Our grandsons loved seeing the Peacock on Thanksgiving Day, it walked all around our yard.  

7. A walk to the back part of the lake with hubby and Miney, we had a dusting of snow on this morning. 

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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