Saturday's Critters # 645

  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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I am sharing a mish-mash of photos, my back yard birds and our dog Miney, the neighborhood Peacock, views from the fire road walks and the bike trail walk. I can hear a FOY Eastern Phoebe calling in my yard too, no photos yet. 

1. At this time our weather was finally warming up some, Spring still seems far off, the scenery of bare trees and fallen leaves on the fire road walk with Miney. The Prettyboy reservoir is still low due to the drought. 

2. On some of our busier days, I just take Miney for a walk up and down our street.  She is happy still lots of smells around. 

3. My backyard birds, are the Blue Jay and the Cardinals. They are always looking for the peanut nuggets. 

4. At the NCR trail, the sled dogs are finished their run and getting ready to go back into their transport vehicle. 

5. Scenes from our walk on the NCR Bike trail. The sled dogs were packing up to go home, we saw some icicles hanging off a boulder along the trails. Our weather has up and down like a yo-yo, warms days and still some very cold days.

6. There were lots of Canada Geese hanging out on the Friendly Farm Ponds. There were some ducks but too far away to see which species. 

7. The Peacock will come up on our deck sometimes, looking for food or just to hang out. 

8. The male Pine Warbler has found my feeders. I've been hearing them calling a lot lately.  They are breeding in the forest around our home. 

9. The tarp covering our wood piles gets blown around in the high winds we were having.  The Peacock loves to sit on the wood pile. 

Bonus image, one of our birthday gifts to the grandsons was a little jeep they could ride in. I think they love it. It is an outside ride, but my son just put it together. 

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!

"Every road leads to a whole new world."

On the road to Bitter Lake National Wildlife refuge, located in Roswell New Mexico. 

"Making memories one road at a time."

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

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Saturday's Critters # 644

 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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Heads up April 22nd is Earth Day, we can help by participating in activities such as planting trees, cleaning up your neighborhood, reduce your use of plastics.

1. Some of my back yard critters, the Peacock likes to sit on top of our wood pile.  

I think I bought this moose 30 years ago, it is made of heavy iron. After a trip to the Tetons and Yellowstone I decided Moose were one of my many favorite critters. I had to have a moose in my back yard. 

2. At this time our weather was beautiful for taking our walks with Miney. On this day hubby and I took our walk on the NCR bike trail in Parkton Md. I heard and saw my FOY Eastern Phoebe. 

The Eastern Phoebe has a call that sounds like fee-bee. It almost sounds like it is saying it's own name and feed-me, lol.  

Miney checking out the NCR trail, looking for people, dogs and deer.  

"The wildlife and it's habitat cannot speak, so we must and we will."

3. Below on this day it was just me and Miney taking the walk.  Hubby is tired on the days he has dialysis. Below are views of the Prettyboy Reservoir, it is really low, parts of the lake look more like a stream. 

4. An early morning walk with just me and Miney, our walk on the local fire road at Prettyboy Watershed.

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

Two birds below were heard on my walk with Miney, the Eastern Bluebird was one I heard often.

The Pine Warbler is a breeder in the Prettyboy Watershed, I've been hearing these birds calling a lot while I was on my walk.  The photo below is one of my archive images, the Pine Warbler used to visit my feeders. The male is a beautiful bright yellow color.

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!

"Our national parks are a national treasure, they must be preserved and protected."

Viewpoint of Yellowstone National Park's Canyon near the Lower Falls.

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

Comments off, enjoy your day!

Saturday's Critters # 643

   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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1. Hubby and I went out for a walk, we decided to drive by the Friendly Farms Ponds to see if there were some ducks.  I saw a few Bufflehead and there were more Ring-necked Ducks seen below in the mosaic. 

2. Below are a few Bufflehead, they have white below and a white patch on their heads with black on the back. 

3. Below are some Ring-necked Ducks with a male Bufflehead. 

These ducks are the Ring-necked Ducks. They have white ring on the bill. 

4. These images are from our 2 miles roundtrip hike to the Prettyboy lake. I  could hear the Canada Geese soon after we started walking. I was surprised to see a large flock of Tundra Swans, various ducks and a Horned Grebe. 

My Merlin App captured birds along the fire road to the lake. 

5.There was a layer of fog hanging right above the water.  

6. The largest count of birds were the Canada Geese, they were spread out all around the lake shore and on the lake.  

7. The fog was not the greatest for taking photos of the lake, the geese and swans. 

8. A pair of Bald Eagles were sitting in their usual tree above the water.  

Below are large groups of Canada Geese and Tundra Swans. 

 

On the lake I found a Horned Grebe.

We drove around the lake stopping at the dam and I found a small group of Common Mergansers.  The Males are a pretty white bottom with a green head. 

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!