Saturday's Critters # 639

 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

I am sharing recent back yard birds and critters and some critters seen in various national parks are from my archives.

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1. The Eastern Blue Bird has always been a favorite of mine, I love to see them visiting my yard.  It would be great to see them using my birdhouses for their nest. 

2. Below are two frequent visitors, the White-throated Sparrow and a Gray Squirrel. 

3. Blue Jays are another common bird visiting my yard, sorry about the photo quality, it was taken through a kitchen window. 

4. From my archives I am sharing some critters from our visits to various national parks. Below are some Elk seen in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. 

5. Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons are two of my favorite parks.  There were always critters to be seen. Below is a bull moose, seen off the Heron Pond and Swan Lake loop. The moose below was wearing a tracking collar, there was also a female moose and an elk standing nearby. 

The Buffalo at Yellowstone were plentiful.  It was nice to see the cute calves.  

We watched this Grizzly Bear not far from the Jackson Lake Lodge in the Grand Tetons National Park. 

6. Seen in the Rocky Mountain National Park we watched a mama moose with a calf.  

7. Everglades National Park, a great park to see critters and lots of birds.  

Near the Flamingo marina, Everglades National Park we saw the Crocodile. It is the only place were the Crocodiles and Alligators coexist. The American Crocodile has a v-shaped snout and the Alligators seen in the photo above have a u-shaped snout.  

The Manatees were also seen at the Everglades National Park Flamingo marina area.  

8. Shenandoah National Park, Skyline Drive.  It was always a treat to see a Black Bear during our visits to Shenandoah National Park. The mosaic below and next few photos are all from Shenandoah National Park. 

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!

"Be grateful for life's adventures."

Cliffs of Moher, Ireland May 2023

" We don't remember the days. We remember the moments."

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

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Saturday's Critters # 638

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

I am sharing a mish mash of photos, some of my yard birds, our grand-dog Winnie the Corgi, the neighborhood Peacock, my common yard birds and a couple of archive images.. I am still behind posting my photos.  

It's time to turn the clocks ahead an hour, I am looking forward to the longer daylight.  Now all we need is more sunny days. 

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1. Due to the weather and a bad ice/snow storm, our grandson's birthday party had to be postponed.  We were finally able to celebrate Mason's 4th birthday on Feb 1st.  Below are Winnie the grand-dog, Sophie and Mason playing with the airplanes. 

Wyatt's 5th birthday party on Feb 15th was only a few weeks away. Our grandsons are only 11 months apart in age.  Our granddaughter Sophie will be 2 in July.

2. The neighborhood Peacock has been seen laying on our driveway, maybe the ground feels warmer from the sunshine. It has been super cold, our neighbor has put a heat lamp on his porch for the Peacock to have a warm roost at night.

3. Not sure if your see through the tall pine tree, but the Power Company is cutting down and trimming some of the trees. We had a huge dead tree across the driveway in the forest that if it fell it would be on top of our house. They took down 3 dead trees and left the wood on the ground.  There were two trucks that had these tall white towers that held up the bucket for the guy doing the cutting.  I am glad it all went safely.  

The tree trimming company trimmed all the trees on our front yard too.  

4. The food I put out for the birds disappears quickly, I am seeing Blue Jays, Tufted Titmouse, Carolina Chickadees, Dark-eyed Juncos and White-throated Sparrows. 

The American Birding Association has named the Horned Lark as the 2026 Bird of the Year.  These images are from my archives. I have seen the Horned Lark along the road at Bombay Hook NWR and along the rural back roads in my area during the winter.

My photos are not the best taken from the car window. I believe my photos are of the female Horned Lark. 

Feb 2-4 in my local bird news, a Crested Caracara has been seen in the Prettyboy area.  I have not seen this bird in my neighborhood but it has been seen a few times by various birders in the Prettyboy Reservoir area.  I would say it is a rare sighting to see a Crested Caracara in Maryland. I can only assume the last storm we had brought this bird to our area.   My sighting and the photo below was in Florida and other sightings were in Costa Rica. I will be watching over my yard to see if it flies by, wishful thinking.  

"May the miracles of nature fill your soul with the colors of joy." Mary Davis

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!

"In matters of healing the body or the mind, vacation is a true genius!"

A walk on the beach in Kauai 2022

"Take only memories, leave only footprints."

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

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Saturday's Critters # 637

 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

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A mosaic sharing some of my yard birds, at this time we were having super cold weather and snow/ice on the ground.  I tried to make sure my birds were getting food and water.  The birds seen in the photos are the White-throated Sparrow, Dark-eyed Juncos and a male Cardinal.

"The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind." Carly Simon

It has been too hard to take Miney for a walk on the fire roads, we had so much snow and ice. We have been playing with her indoors, to keep her active.

From my archives I am sharing the Anhinga. It is a common bird seen in Florida. The Anhinga is also known as American Darter or the Snakebird.

There is at least one Anhinga on this tree with a few Cormorants. Can you find the Anhinga?  The bill is different on the Anhinga, sharper and thin.

The Anhinga can stay under water for a long period of time.

The male is a dark color almost glossy looking. Their wings are streaked with white.

Anhinga seen at Circle B Reserve.

Pretty colors on the breeding male Anhinga.

I have seen the Anhinga in various place during my travels,  a lot have been seen in Florida, but they were also seen in the parts of the Caribbean and Central and South America. 

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.

Check out  Catblogosphere.com

Here is my linky:

Thank you for sharing your critters and post!