Monday, August 18, 2025

Happy Monday!

Wishing everyone a great day and a happy new week!


"Wildlife is the storyteller, weaving tales of survival and beauty."




Assateague State Park, Maryland, Assateague ponies,

"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, August 16, 2025

Saturday's Critters # 609

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


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Aug 14th, thank you for all the well wishes for my hubby. He is doing well and he was told his blood work was good. His diet seems to be a daily battle.


1. June 24, One of my favorite local trails goes thru a pine tree forest. While walking with Miney I had the Merlin App recording the birds I heard singing. The Pine Warbler is a regular in my neighborhood and on this trail. 




The Pine Warbler has been seen different times of the year here. I know they are breeders in the forest around our home. I hear them singing during most of my walks with Miney. You can see this male has the yellow with black streaks.





On one of my walks with Miney, we were just on the local fire road not far from home, she stopped and refused to go further, she was watching one section off the trail I thought she was scared of whatever was there. I was thinking it was a black bear roaming around our local forest, I have seen them here before.  




The Acadian Flycatcher is one of our summer birds, it returns to the forest that surrounds our home and the Prettyboy reservoir. The Acadian Flycatcher is olive above, narrow eye-ring and has two wingbars. Their forehead is rather flat sloping gently to give a peaked look.




2. June 25th, my walk with Miney is another local fire road trail. I am not sure what these wildflowers are called.  






3. June 27th, I watch the Ruby-throated Hummingbird perched near his feeder.  






4. June 28th, since we have had so much it seem I am seeing lots of mushroom growing along side the fire road. 






5. June 29th, We walked our local fire road once again. This time I did more of a loop and came to a downed tree we had to cross over. She makes jumping over these trees look easy.  






6. June 30th, my birdwatching dog Miney was watching some birds up in the tree next to the trail. 







7. Lately on my walks, I have been hearing the Yellow-throated Vireo.  I have seen them before in the summer time and my Merlin App has been picking their sounds on my local fire road walks. This Vireo is colorful, has a yellow eye-ring and thick bill, has the yellow throat and it's belly is white.









8. August 2015, flashback photos and a visit to the North Point State Park in Baltimore County. One this day we saw lots of Great Egret, Little Blue Herons and a Tricolored Heron. Below starting on the left are two Little Blue Herons, in the middle is a Tricolored Heron and on the right a Great Egret and another Little Blue Heron. 




The transitional mottled Little Blue Heron.




Below is the adult Little Blue Heron






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Monday, August 11, 2025

Happy Monday!

  Wishing everyone a great day and a happy new week!



The Sun Voyager sculpture Reykjavik Iceland. An ode to the sun and serves as a symbol of hope, progress and freedom. 

"Let us journey together in hope."



"All it takes is one good person to restore hope." quotes by Pope Francis




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Saturday, August 9, 2025

Saturday's Critters # 608

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


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1. June 18th, here we are again on a walk with Miney to the lake. Miney and I enjoy our walks, listening to the birds and trying to find some for my photos.  Below I watched an Osprey take a fish from the lake and fly to a nearby tree. The Canada Geese are a common bird seen at the lake. I also saw a mama deer and fawn across the lake from us. 





2. June 19, my walk with Miney on our local fire road. She walks with her nose to the ground, she can quickly grab things off the ground and eat them. I have to lookout for the mushrooms so she doesn't grab them really fast.






3. June  20th, our walk with Miney was on the NCR trail in Parkton Md. We walked past a Black Vulture perched on top of a huge boulder on the side of the trail. It spooked Miney. The Lilies are blooming looking very pretty at this time. 







4.  June21st, my walk with Miney was along the road some and onto the nearby fire road. Coming back home we saw a deer eating weeds along our driveway and yard. 









5. June22nd, another morning walk with Miney. We have to get early in the morning before it gets too hot. My walk with Miney was on the close by fire road, we sat on a log for a rest and listened to the birds and had a little view of the reservoir. 








6. June 22nd, one of the birds I heard often on my walk was the Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher. 






7. June 23rd, another neighborhood walk with Miney on the Prettyboy fire road.  The Worm-eating Warbler is heard on all my walks lately. It shows up on the Merlin app as my Bird of the Day. 










8. Flashback to May 2017, we were on a Washington State trip. These photos were taken in or around the Nisqually entrance to Mt Rainier National Park. The Elk were seen right off the road that leads to the park entrance.




May 2017, The Stellar Jay was a common bird we saw while visiting Washington State.




May 2017, The Varied Thrush was seen in multiple spot in Washington State.




Hubby Aug 6th update: Dialysis seems to be going as well as can be. Hubby does need to do more exercises to build up his strength and of course he is stubborn when it comes to a diet. He is a night owl and usually naps more during the day. Those days give me more time walking Miney, reading and blogging. 


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Monday, August 4, 2025

Happy Monday!

 Wishing everyone a great day and a happy new week!


"Soothing my soul in the lap of Kauai's nature."




"A humble person walks carefully so as not to hurt others."




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


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