tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12641937058211921682024-03-18T21:23:29.379-04:00Viewing nature with EileenViewing nature with Eileeneileeninmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00070309645796725309noreply@blogger.comBlogger2196125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1264193705821192168.post-18570942206380220442024-03-18T00:00:00.028-04:002024-03-18T00:00:00.131-04:00Happy Monday!<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Wishing everyone a great day and a ha</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">ppy new week!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"One small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day."</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiItr6OAz-1G7YO84VDIsxUWF7dsZv68wnqnlKpEpsgqij4ZWnwQses9iBwMWXEhr0UuxhroBAGivggjsSDqOdEKoq3A3uFcqTM5-3mkSHkHI3tDv3XbbfXf-NLEgvhM7QbIfffpq7_SNvHdXOk5-SZh_PyxCBDx_Sir-DMn5fkM0Gu_wpC7nVwupzkTStO/s2333/Kileaua%20Point%20Lighthouse%20Kauai.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1750" data-original-width="2333" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiItr6OAz-1G7YO84VDIsxUWF7dsZv68wnqnlKpEpsgqij4ZWnwQses9iBwMWXEhr0UuxhroBAGivggjsSDqOdEKoq3A3uFcqTM5-3mkSHkHI3tDv3XbbfXf-NLEgvhM7QbIfffpq7_SNvHdXOk5-SZh_PyxCBDx_Sir-DMn5fkM0Gu_wpC7nVwupzkTStO/w640-h480/Kileaua%20Point%20Lighthouse%20Kauai.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday."</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">"We tak</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">e photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #202124;"></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Comments off, enjoy your day!</span></p>eileeninmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00070309645796725309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1264193705821192168.post-88123922393628806562024-03-16T00:00:00.110-04:002024-03-16T00:00:00.134-04:00Saturday's Critters # 535<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Welcome to Saturday's Critters! </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Hello and Happy Saturday!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> 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!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">These images are from day two of our getaway to Ocean City, we also stopped at the Indian River Inlet in Delaware and a visit to Assateague Island is always a must. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">1. We started off with a pretty sunrise from our Ocean City hotel, our first stop for the day was at the Indian River Inlet in Delaware. We saw lots of Brant Geese, Sanderlings, Long-tailed Ducks, Great Cormorants and there were some surfers out catching the waves. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY7JkXv-HBtbY70kDVfkAQnnvGkz8FgXSaPAyEapBoEvvt-hxe_t1zIlOlV32_UIk_wX3sHylDITLJuTmRNcfopGIOhWyz2zmNjdSsW7mOjHlmprjLH9nEcvzMXzyoEvH0TX6MpPmhP6WmqXACTCU5XcsOjEQ-3z8rV-3XeQlr7sWHksdJwTb2tygUw4pR/s1920/Indian%20River%20Inlet%202-9-24%20collage.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY7JkXv-HBtbY70kDVfkAQnnvGkz8FgXSaPAyEapBoEvvt-hxe_t1zIlOlV32_UIk_wX3sHylDITLJuTmRNcfopGIOhWyz2zmNjdSsW7mOjHlmprjLH9nEcvzMXzyoEvH0TX6MpPmhP6WmqXACTCU5XcsOjEQ-3z8rV-3XeQlr7sWHksdJwTb2tygUw4pR/w640-h640/Indian%20River%20Inlet%202-9-24%20collage.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">2. Also at the Indian River Inlet were some Red-breasted Mergansers with the pretty Long-tailed Ducks.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT-JeS9zqN6dNRNJl2Hk6HPKm5gBnI_5h8Y1bxq4e6miRPnCd7N1O8U2eXTrjhGSMl5yEk5GR_2JnAgmu8incnNyH1gyiQISP9P1bphxWixr6k_w5VkZpyTeFcInaJD3GZEf34asrVK9R1fiXJMinkN50UrbqiUe1oPpx0rkTTBNhiwFZlfVGhni-0tFst/s5184/IMG_9513A.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT-JeS9zqN6dNRNJl2Hk6HPKm5gBnI_5h8Y1bxq4e6miRPnCd7N1O8U2eXTrjhGSMl5yEk5GR_2JnAgmu8incnNyH1gyiQISP9P1bphxWixr6k_w5VkZpyTeFcInaJD3GZEf34asrVK9R1fiXJMinkN50UrbqiUe1oPpx0rkTTBNhiwFZlfVGhni-0tFst/w640-h480/IMG_9513A.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">3. A wind blown Great Blue Heron near the campground at Indian River Inlet. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX1EhkGpRdhzQb3YPCe2xeXkpkRwRh14FnXfiLHetwslhd-sarB__ayBYh3GAO-VJGSdI7Uf_wLpW7fmB82A-mTQ9kbSshulF8SRIoKaJDGkmP8fb_I0ImFM-W-Zmajd7o9RS2o3iTzeahVPUT8wK7quhuZJPIodcLyZ2cZ7Dqh9PZsuNdtcg2JVE-M-rg/s2074/IMG_9539A.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1556" data-original-width="2074" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX1EhkGpRdhzQb3YPCe2xeXkpkRwRh14FnXfiLHetwslhd-sarB__ayBYh3GAO-VJGSdI7Uf_wLpW7fmB82A-mTQ9kbSshulF8SRIoKaJDGkmP8fb_I0ImFM-W-Zmajd7o9RS2o3iTzeahVPUT8wK7quhuZJPIodcLyZ2cZ7Dqh9PZsuNdtcg2JVE-M-rg/w640-h480/IMG_9539A.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">4. On the Delaware beach we saw a big flock of Sanderlings. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnaj7mdQEIe3kWQwPi6hj9jIq2ckMHGcTP305YqRXG7OqgfkYCaaP3J06ITV_pbjeydW0E0kf7XNchyKBXSXYAqICPMIaKmzlq6m9iBHzJfXT3LvF3LqRhQFLVJAV-1FWvDX62AXNJj3hd7yOtK5GEU6da4wTa8tXVwtfPMxdM05Pt0eHJPWwcG4g7iCWD/s1920/Sanderlings%20collage.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnaj7mdQEIe3kWQwPi6hj9jIq2ckMHGcTP305YqRXG7OqgfkYCaaP3J06ITV_pbjeydW0E0kf7XNchyKBXSXYAqICPMIaKmzlq6m9iBHzJfXT3LvF3LqRhQFLVJAV-1FWvDX62AXNJj3hd7yOtK5GEU6da4wTa8tXVwtfPMxdM05Pt0eHJPWwcG4g7iCWD/w640-h640/Sanderlings%20collage.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">5. At the Indian River Inlet we can always see the Long-tailed Ducks, this flock was flying back and forth at the inlet. <br /><br /><br /></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNjhhZiFbFmz7JQb_lytUvIgwaL2AJVgVe71kCZfc8XnsReNo80qZK2TXzaYSybjcFc8UMrA9kHh8BjgrYFNwpCsgqyyTeln7HSh47_YrZ3Bu1NEKcc1eGskdXunHSkHMU2Q8ZJzFk78LxlMo-c6QvY3H41bKqb6hysQzuQno5BEkXQTktAAMMwX5SqnJJ/s2074/IMG_9527A.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1556" data-original-width="2074" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNjhhZiFbFmz7JQb_lytUvIgwaL2AJVgVe71kCZfc8XnsReNo80qZK2TXzaYSybjcFc8UMrA9kHh8BjgrYFNwpCsgqyyTeln7HSh47_YrZ3Bu1NEKcc1eGskdXunHSkHMU2Q8ZJzFk78LxlMo-c6QvY3H41bKqb6hysQzuQno5BEkXQTktAAMMwX5SqnJJ/w640-h480/IMG_9527A.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">6. Loon with a crab, seen at the Indian River Inlet.<br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgotO9aunrr7w-GFszbD9KDFd8qvieh8MBx_kHFYT4Ygea7AdUS_DHzOu63o38X9PsU8y5Abfnh6rP4DTaS9eRniaD-L1NfLs0gN7XGrUL8prVhmlOg2vwdDgcH8Df0II4QyuvU7n70lCe2gm90yI5zTOW4-HF-z1Vz9SadPq3pSr56hIJXJJvG5Bq-d4tx/s2333/IMG_9615A.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1750" data-original-width="2333" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgotO9aunrr7w-GFszbD9KDFd8qvieh8MBx_kHFYT4Ygea7AdUS_DHzOu63o38X9PsU8y5Abfnh6rP4DTaS9eRniaD-L1NfLs0gN7XGrUL8prVhmlOg2vwdDgcH8Df0II4QyuvU7n70lCe2gm90yI5zTOW4-HF-z1Vz9SadPq3pSr56hIJXJJvG5Bq-d4tx/w640-h480/IMG_9615A.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">7. We stopped at the Ocean City Inlet to look for more sea ducks, we saw the Surf Scoter, more Long-tailed Ducks, Sanderlings, Ruddy Turnstones and some Purple Sandpipers. </span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq1mofgq1HswUhyphenhyphen0YvUS8Zj8QYezPD8_vLgb5Fp5fXHVNsd_sdzcGvDeBED8gkG32TnW7bztWZEXprWG69otSPSZsvLrGYvHtm8z5eSZ7JK3w52CZ6fPMllYbam8EoTWq-AJPgW7Q8kGOh_KOrgD_EtjzDldTm9aGwupFjMJvL6B8dhaVuCHeBT4hKFWeP/s1920/Ocean%20city%20inlet%20bird%20collage.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq1mofgq1HswUhyphenhyphen0YvUS8Zj8QYezPD8_vLgb5Fp5fXHVNsd_sdzcGvDeBED8gkG32TnW7bztWZEXprWG69otSPSZsvLrGYvHtm8z5eSZ7JK3w52CZ6fPMllYbam8EoTWq-AJPgW7Q8kGOh_KOrgD_EtjzDldTm9aGwupFjMJvL6B8dhaVuCHeBT4hKFWeP/w640-h640/Ocean%20city%20inlet%20bird%20collage.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span>8. We saw a S</span>urf Scoter at the Ocean City Inlet. The male has a colorful with a black, white, red and orange bill. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVlqzc35RnuEjwxnfmhJh8Kw3ZNMvAEaQparVTpPw5M-c1gB6yelz4mGSyO1bMZBzXM4IDeapbqw-XX6cVb7FqDyYpbsOckhB2yyzQWVEEIUwYOzgODynp2y34Qq-DqPsmpjvukxS45XAF6gfLULCsB7T9jGs29QCbmYLvDjoyYSVmJ6V2AhLwKnTL8f6f/s2333/IMG_9706A.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1750" data-original-width="2333" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVlqzc35RnuEjwxnfmhJh8Kw3ZNMvAEaQparVTpPw5M-c1gB6yelz4mGSyO1bMZBzXM4IDeapbqw-XX6cVb7FqDyYpbsOckhB2yyzQWVEEIUwYOzgODynp2y34Qq-DqPsmpjvukxS45XAF6gfLULCsB7T9jGs29QCbmYLvDjoyYSVmJ6V2AhLwKnTL8f6f/w640-h480/IMG_9706A.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">9. Next we headed to Assateague Island National Seashore. We walked on the Marsh Trail and the Forest trail. We saw more Great Blue Herons and Sanderlings and a flock of Mergansers. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpx-h_l7B_XXVO3rhYIXtrJI01H9IWLYTDUpct7NfEXca3MnRaCuw4GWFsE7HQIKNSf4fr18EK6Y1EvpqtF6kA35MW1958sIiHAH8XyJW5lKgiURKTw5D-udhF3F-M2daOtLeBA49321GVk032IQJzSTdfd_9HKSkQq0PLLmTqDThPn3Y4sNf-8SiUi5FS/s1920/Assateague%20collage.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpx-h_l7B_XXVO3rhYIXtrJI01H9IWLYTDUpct7NfEXca3MnRaCuw4GWFsE7HQIKNSf4fr18EK6Y1EvpqtF6kA35MW1958sIiHAH8XyJW5lKgiURKTw5D-udhF3F-M2daOtLeBA49321GVk032IQJzSTdfd_9HKSkQq0PLLmTqDThPn3Y4sNf-8SiUi5FS/w640-h640/Assateague%20collage.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">10. The beach at Assateague Island National Seashore is always a pretty sight. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij1lys1b8bFhImIULXQwWmX1BVewwJRtOpPTXMrAfdMD3dJcZd_6KXsz4XytKbFfSt1_cxIujT-zgwAnR5_nT23nofknlFNnBfmINqQ6qfWxdSO2zlY6DkbdZGUCn35qGST429zxA1PZkcMvS4MQndY2_A11dV65phyphenhyphenyGwfDZnkQfkHEEh-uXX2XtdqJmA/s1920/Assateague%20Island%20National%20Seashore.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij1lys1b8bFhImIULXQwWmX1BVewwJRtOpPTXMrAfdMD3dJcZd_6KXsz4XytKbFfSt1_cxIujT-zgwAnR5_nT23nofknlFNnBfmINqQ6qfWxdSO2zlY6DkbdZGUCn35qGST429zxA1PZkcMvS4MQndY2_A11dV65phyphenhyphenyGwfDZnkQfkHEEh-uXX2XtdqJmA/w640-h640/Assateague%20Island%20National%20Seashore.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">11. The Assateague Ponies are always a favorite sight to see. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilzK34e45eRuCfNK7bwds2vwGmh519KVwdh28ZGTlu688uUPEJ9yyHEQ6KP6GcyU9yy-fBGkkqVM6TXcxlhtaXBUSaBDmFWqNSXHC8bUG5aCqmAgK6R7DHyEZeSZ76VLMv6RncPd5LLwv6UFNocXeS40ndQt3jAFNhgYn0cKnr4vgtGuHseai9yHP9AS1S/s1920/Assateague%20ponies.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilzK34e45eRuCfNK7bwds2vwGmh519KVwdh28ZGTlu688uUPEJ9yyHEQ6KP6GcyU9yy-fBGkkqVM6TXcxlhtaXBUSaBDmFWqNSXHC8bUG5aCqmAgK6R7DHyEZeSZ76VLMv6RncPd5LLwv6UFNocXeS40ndQt3jAFNhgYn0cKnr4vgtGuHseai9yHP9AS1S/w640-h640/Assateague%20ponies.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I hope you enjoyed day two of our getaway.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I am linking up to Heidrun's <a href="https://happy-hour-with-picts.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Mosaic Monday </a> I hope you can stop by and visit Heidrun and check out the Mosaic Monday post.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Thanks to all my visitors and for your past and present comments. 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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!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Feb 8th-10th, hubby and I were on a getaway to Maryland's Eastern shore, we stopped at Blackwater NWR in Cambridge Md and then onto Ocean City, Md for 2 nights. The first images are from Blackwater Wildlife Refuge and the last ones are from the Ocean City Inlet. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">1. At Blackwater, we enjoyed seeing lots of Tundra Swans, Canada Geese, Snow Geese, Northern Pintail and a GB Heron. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTzy-4GkBsgTcX9FF1Xt_vazufXCeyl53-TD_62jKtPgISerRIoOqcnoO5stzIUex8QT0Pbb5YMhuyueR54YU_C5chnk4v6VJhEvv1ggKTfCDxrk1-xGIxIDHuVerAY_I8kOVLiQQ2xXHTSCgvrJ-e7E09XLG0FXUIsM6N1Gi-SRHg1H2hEd8-8udapPWk/s1920/Blackwater%202-8-24.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTzy-4GkBsgTcX9FF1Xt_vazufXCeyl53-TD_62jKtPgISerRIoOqcnoO5stzIUex8QT0Pbb5YMhuyueR54YU_C5chnk4v6VJhEvv1ggKTfCDxrk1-xGIxIDHuVerAY_I8kOVLiQQ2xXHTSCgvrJ-e7E09XLG0FXUIsM6N1Gi-SRHg1H2hEd8-8udapPWk/w640-h640/Blackwater%202-8-24.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">At Blackwater NWR, it is a treat to see the Snow geese, this huge group of Snow Geese was out on the Blackwater River. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE8RRwcMSWVOH4lt0Yl3KFzxd-SLDR9yJhfQpflaWI_0BF-xe85bR-9R3kXOsrujir0AjM8Lr9Vn7n108CGEVwA1n66FkmLxv6TV6jnKzPnvfKOXMpDQDNXbIfTfFdg24Y-lG-Fl4vJPebiiB2AzATU_C86aZXDx8iKeX-a1cNleRve2aEqOGoY0XUmg_B/s2333/IMG_9404A.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1750" data-original-width="2333" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE8RRwcMSWVOH4lt0Yl3KFzxd-SLDR9yJhfQpflaWI_0BF-xe85bR-9R3kXOsrujir0AjM8Lr9Vn7n108CGEVwA1n66FkmLxv6TV6jnKzPnvfKOXMpDQDNXbIfTfFdg24Y-lG-Fl4vJPebiiB2AzATU_C86aZXDx8iKeX-a1cNleRve2aEqOGoY0XUmg_B/w640-h480/IMG_9404A.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">While we sat in our car and watched the Snow Geese, they all flew up, circled around and came back down and landed on the river. They are extremely loud, an Eagle or Hawk must have upset them.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv01Gm9M2XYoSeBOKPkjBQJCs4BMhwlUcK4YmQpSEEttDJQ4Ecp-2S6uLgWCIgpSXqc7x6riVRk8o7tGtaA0YZtAaPsdBs_9V5HaDmNnQYOCb1qQMNlYHn-l9DnBTB_a1mych3se0Ep-b3oE1cNm5bI-HqHhaCZm_mi0RalBUyWLEKoNk4U7UmB3y0BZej/s2333/IMG_9419A.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1750" data-original-width="2333" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv01Gm9M2XYoSeBOKPkjBQJCs4BMhwlUcK4YmQpSEEttDJQ4Ecp-2S6uLgWCIgpSXqc7x6riVRk8o7tGtaA0YZtAaPsdBs_9V5HaDmNnQYOCb1qQMNlYHn-l9DnBTB_a1mych3se0Ep-b3oE1cNm5bI-HqHhaCZm_mi0RalBUyWLEKoNk4U7UmB3y0BZej/w640-h480/IMG_9419A.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-ArXaEYpEa3XwpxkSJreAnSkvU83gdNCcfjBJR2dY437JCA7i1OGu1cqukmwUSiYTLn3pthH8QICfGAl_0O0296w28L11x3YbkRDStccamDWg9Y_Jw0u8_KntAnovOjSRfjXW3HiuICkdVm67MKiifELgNqTRvoP8TRLRwuQ9HqHh2LeGn27_GBrAlKXm/s5184/IMG_9422A.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-ArXaEYpEa3XwpxkSJreAnSkvU83gdNCcfjBJR2dY437JCA7i1OGu1cqukmwUSiYTLn3pthH8QICfGAl_0O0296w28L11x3YbkRDStccamDWg9Y_Jw0u8_KntAnovOjSRfjXW3HiuICkdVm67MKiifELgNqTRvoP8TRLRwuQ9HqHh2LeGn27_GBrAlKXm/w640-h480/IMG_9422A.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">A landscape image of Blackwater, lots of Tundra Swans, Canada Geese and a variety of ducks. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqsBEVhwjrNu9d2Ys-kIebKCkN2gmmOohIkt8999baQMhtLDhH4XQMuFCCV_obIb_W27Xa4rZBzb65VdvahTp5WMCxRDlocutrWEnWQwUC0TahfUTmC7icpdcwvTATKzaOlRVN3OXpfvSqsMrnobpLA8idsa-hYRqR4t_cxQMzHRSXcCXaivDgAm3tPyIV/s2333/IMG_9444A.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1750" data-original-width="2333" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqsBEVhwjrNu9d2Ys-kIebKCkN2gmmOohIkt8999baQMhtLDhH4XQMuFCCV_obIb_W27Xa4rZBzb65VdvahTp5WMCxRDlocutrWEnWQwUC0TahfUTmC7icpdcwvTATKzaOlRVN3OXpfvSqsMrnobpLA8idsa-hYRqR4t_cxQMzHRSXcCXaivDgAm3tPyIV/w640-h480/IMG_9444A.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">We did some birdwatching and wave watching at the Ocean City Inlet. Birds seen below are top row are the Surf Scoter and a Ruddy Turnstone with Sanderlings. Bottom row are male and female Bufflehead with a Red-breasted Merganser.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRe3KR7Dz0Hqz_dqHD4HxtvdxLR0-j95o5dqzpnY4apVmy0EFlYwPts3KhQQgV-GkeLDX5COcFFen_2m1M5n1jTcVV8mVqGHUarGGMKS1zVR9uLpROj04nkEFZVccHq_9Y9lcB6_C6HI5V1cgYQnke9ahG7ANpZF8gOrYCUo-4GxbAyBmhSEdijeaezpbi/s1920/Ocean%20City%20inlet%202-8-24.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRe3KR7Dz0Hqz_dqHD4HxtvdxLR0-j95o5dqzpnY4apVmy0EFlYwPts3KhQQgV-GkeLDX5COcFFen_2m1M5n1jTcVV8mVqGHUarGGMKS1zVR9uLpROj04nkEFZVccHq_9Y9lcB6_C6HI5V1cgYQnke9ahG7ANpZF8gOrYCUo-4GxbAyBmhSEdijeaezpbi/w640-h640/Ocean%20City%20inlet%202-8-24.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgucMIIA5xnF8x7LWN2FT166AbtTf7jBViXCY-t2lab4B2i2A98GrMw6GuZZgxwlMTmMOcz-ocudcIcL7wH06T_GPNWadK3QmtM-ITS9ZmPcj9ciD7njeDyDpgmzMNqiNOZg2WDZBwKAeaNEJKFK0AcH8ljHX14CBjs_H1Q1oGmh6dyYC3tficzW9yvQvcl/s1920/OC%20inlet%202-8-24.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgucMIIA5xnF8x7LWN2FT166AbtTf7jBViXCY-t2lab4B2i2A98GrMw6GuZZgxwlMTmMOcz-ocudcIcL7wH06T_GPNWadK3QmtM-ITS9ZmPcj9ciD7njeDyDpgmzMNqiNOZg2WDZBwKAeaNEJKFK0AcH8ljHX14CBjs_H1Q1oGmh6dyYC3tficzW9yvQvcl/w640-h640/OC%20inlet%202-8-24.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">We had dinner at the Ropewalk restaurant in Ocean City, located on the bay side. A perfect spot to watch the sunset while having dinner. They had some beautiful murals on the walls outside the restaurant. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGrZph786lMS9_vdtG0geVbOtzaAW3ew4zS8ELAfW3u672j_4mqVYIAZT1xS3PFsOYmlqjQji2JaKBra2RRJ-VgFDASxmI6zkfoZS1kixeM0pscCFsML3M2d_drNyAh8F3gIYv5ukx11-pBHopLeQ4v2J24w0ayKZf6IMQyeNMPqTyoNXuI2-iihhflpC9/s1815/IMG_3363A.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1361" data-original-width="1815" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGrZph786lMS9_vdtG0geVbOtzaAW3ew4zS8ELAfW3u672j_4mqVYIAZT1xS3PFsOYmlqjQji2JaKBra2RRJ-VgFDASxmI6zkfoZS1kixeM0pscCFsML3M2d_drNyAh8F3gIYv5ukx11-pBHopLeQ4v2J24w0ayKZf6IMQyeNMPqTyoNXuI2-iihhflpC9/w640-h480/IMG_3363A.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The murals are pretty scenes, Maryland fishermen with gulls and another mural of the sea creatures and birds in flight.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-mWouKB6kxkqOLJG7s3MGs3mtcvkSBCAAyDdxN1RVElM0HmjMgiFCozaeh_xSoBx6MQbsUfZsgde0_Vv4W0uH2HHigIQyufxI3JMONrWKFmWee4Jwgxnc9D68OCI8U85kFqOZQAHZsnOjYdyPND7XMVPMh81Lo0o8DJq8GiKJwn7B8yIXfVE1Hdja6vr4/s1920/Ocean%20City%202-8-24.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-mWouKB6kxkqOLJG7s3MGs3mtcvkSBCAAyDdxN1RVElM0HmjMgiFCozaeh_xSoBx6MQbsUfZsgde0_Vv4W0uH2HHigIQyufxI3JMONrWKFmWee4Jwgxnc9D68OCI8U85kFqOZQAHZsnOjYdyPND7XMVPMh81Lo0o8DJq8GiKJwn7B8yIXfVE1Hdja6vr4/w640-h640/Ocean%20City%202-8-24.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I loved this mural with the birds and fish below.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbS_WYvendWPzchCMvfzW7cSW997pUkN7AvqCNVgxsEpk5LeFPlPH2oKgqkTUy_vv6_mBKxcid65jo6-6BhL8g0xXmYQejahFp_T-AnKctOX_14ggGYTbNnZOCKXiS5GGoBavBRVqYECcGTR9-6ewqNr7kmsY02pKpN0Va19OVR8_sR3rBkWf-sKMOgASm/s4032/IMG_3364A.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2503" data-original-width="4032" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbS_WYvendWPzchCMvfzW7cSW997pUkN7AvqCNVgxsEpk5LeFPlPH2oKgqkTUy_vv6_mBKxcid65jo6-6BhL8g0xXmYQejahFp_T-AnKctOX_14ggGYTbNnZOCKXiS5GGoBavBRVqYECcGTR9-6ewqNr7kmsY02pKpN0Va19OVR8_sR3rBkWf-sKMOgASm/w640-h398/IMG_3364A.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">From inside the restaurant we watch the pretty sunset on Ocean City's bay. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitI3_vxJliPz0EteRJdFtUVXXuaVfl__yRDZhIBfB7Ig_8OVV8Dkl2dlo6yiPZptSs0XXbws-tZRB6ZzPKhOJLkyUhjI9GjFCJL5DfN2twexKAxb6DeWZ2VhuXOhgv-biktcz5slIKiw6nABe_-Edz88dAvFcSZUmuA1LNoOAScH9G_dpEZJYya7HT0lQ5/s1815/IMG_3371A.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1361" data-original-width="1815" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitI3_vxJliPz0EteRJdFtUVXXuaVfl__yRDZhIBfB7Ig_8OVV8Dkl2dlo6yiPZptSs0XXbws-tZRB6ZzPKhOJLkyUhjI9GjFCJL5DfN2twexKAxb6DeWZ2VhuXOhgv-biktcz5slIKiw6nABe_-Edz88dAvFcSZUmuA1LNoOAScH9G_dpEZJYya7HT0lQ5/w640-h480/IMG_3371A.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I am linking up to Heidrun's </span><a href="https://happy-hour-with-picts.blogspot.com/" style="font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">Mosaic Monday </a><span style="font-size: x-large;"> I hope you can stop by and visit Heidrun and check out the Mosaic Monday post. I am also joining Sami with</span><a href="https://sami-colourfulworld.blogspot.com/" style="font-size: x-large;" target="_blank"> Monday Murals</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Thank you for sharing your critters and post!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">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.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrTpqnp6zI3xrJOzTNh6QAZha1YOETkjEKa2eKSHf1LfT5xaEZ1WvtIWytRNFQfhCdgcJwEpYrgldBAW8jX6wCLwAqOJQ5kQuiW9mG-ikFGlQDiImWlFbj-GXw5NL1JPJCBLUDYOPKCLOWAf2NKEmbim2wsUYK8SQiYMXgxI_GJe69JpwfQIepe6AjwtMs/s324/saturdays-critters.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="235" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrTpqnp6zI3xrJOzTNh6QAZha1YOETkjEKa2eKSHf1LfT5xaEZ1WvtIWytRNFQfhCdgcJwEpYrgldBAW8jX6wCLwAqOJQ5kQuiW9mG-ikFGlQDiImWlFbj-GXw5NL1JPJCBLUDYOPKCLOWAf2NKEmbim2wsUYK8SQiYMXgxI_GJe69JpwfQIepe6AjwtMs/s320/saturdays-critters.jpg" width="232" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Here is my linky:</span></p><script src="//www.blenza.com/linkies/easylink.php?owner=EileeninMd&postid=12Feb2024&meme=12669" type="text/javascript"></script><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>eileeninmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00070309645796725309noreply@blogger.com106tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1264193705821192168.post-28717070274555769812024-03-04T00:00:00.025-05:002024-03-04T00:00:00.253-05:00Happy Monday!<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Wishing everyone a great day and a ha</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">ppy new week!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"Lose yourself in nature and find peace."</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcwpdKbAQjnpVWmdb-4ak5Ctj2RPYTn1-Nl11cbC8huLAt-dQEwZeZlsSZQbkWV_sQqRnzaokMkuVz9RI0oG18-521mUeofGBHoeIlyj5-CX-DqqBSF8xYUjvWykQT6xWjOFZO_x1PZ5DWwy3diqzRFSQYa2WCA5BNtlma9W3ZXR72PjkUQELNNeXPbzjV/s4000/IMG_6658_old%20growth%20forest.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcwpdKbAQjnpVWmdb-4ak5Ctj2RPYTn1-Nl11cbC8huLAt-dQEwZeZlsSZQbkWV_sQqRnzaokMkuVz9RI0oG18-521mUeofGBHoeIlyj5-CX-DqqBSF8xYUjvWykQT6xWjOFZO_x1PZ5DWwy3diqzRFSQYa2WCA5BNtlma9W3ZXR72PjkUQELNNeXPbzjV/w640-h480/IMG_6658_old%20growth%20forest.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor." Rumi</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span>"We tak</span><span>e photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #202124;"></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Comments off, enjoy your day!</span></p>eileeninmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00070309645796725309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1264193705821192168.post-3075775598375590802024-03-02T00:00:00.098-05:002024-03-02T00:00:00.136-05:00Saturday's Critters # 533<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Welcome to Saturday's Critters! </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Hello and Happy Saturday!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> 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!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I noticed I have a few blogs I follow on my side bar that do not update with the current post, they stay at the bottom of the list even though the blog has a new post. Does anyone know how to keep the list updated with current post? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Feb 4th, a pretty sunny and blue sky day for our walk.We take this fire road walk to see how the Bald Eagle nest is coming along. We have been seeing the Bald Eagles nesting for years now at our local Prettyboy Reservoir. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcoNlgk3h1Y_panHYO13po_jp7wkF3qCQ3eXH3b8bCqfjmvaY3ap568LnXFITElWsNSkAM1EPToVK38wbwvFg71U0Wy2qaPjlw1VMEGhpRlSleJMs2YVe4yBOCrezWEp7TNaRlOqbgH3UStx6LbqdZbnGfEvaRqbciAAGThyphenhyphenu5gsuRZm5bPCbmcaC37D-2/s1920/Prettyboy%20Bald%20Eagles.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcoNlgk3h1Y_panHYO13po_jp7wkF3qCQ3eXH3b8bCqfjmvaY3ap568LnXFITElWsNSkAM1EPToVK38wbwvFg71U0Wy2qaPjlw1VMEGhpRlSleJMs2YVe4yBOCrezWEp7TNaRlOqbgH3UStx6LbqdZbnGfEvaRqbciAAGThyphenhyphenu5gsuRZm5bPCbmcaC37D-2/w640-h640/Prettyboy%20Bald%20Eagles.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Below is a fuzzy image of the Bald Eagle on the nest and her mate was sitting in a nearby tree.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8K_BI1O5CK2M-0BipwxzcDACrDyV-0Wecv13Lr7suQk5MvD78Z2x1gOFrkHLjrDKjLTnPt5hMN1G1tWQOY4KPSh_qrn2LhrYlaM8993LYrU7pwxMqdGLlFNJiGlvyZZ5omDk_nXqTLRT9FQhtbtLOTI8bTe5aYX9GT1J8-ggQO5-cIWwVfOYSWsndO_7-/s1920/Eagle%20nest%20and%20mate.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8K_BI1O5CK2M-0BipwxzcDACrDyV-0Wecv13Lr7suQk5MvD78Z2x1gOFrkHLjrDKjLTnPt5hMN1G1tWQOY4KPSh_qrn2LhrYlaM8993LYrU7pwxMqdGLlFNJiGlvyZZ5omDk_nXqTLRT9FQhtbtLOTI8bTe5aYX9GT1J8-ggQO5-cIWwVfOYSWsndO_7-/w640-h640/Eagle%20nest%20and%20mate.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">One of the Bald Eagles took off and flew around the lake only to land in another tree.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivQh4INKmxSm42L47Cbuscu5GZkbLhq9IR7-WO34LL5e91bQgyI79rvWo7dpZiH_uEoVOnjcNOXZ5FNxWQjeolVy-xgk681Un5lT5hXj8cN_MzN7DHVTRA7iBA-GK0LedHWOGvExp4shgUzVP_RplGBnGy00eAnVc3hmr92j-iX7dKtW0TNkTaTgTLjy-f/s1920/Eagle%20fly%20over%20collage.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivQh4INKmxSm42L47Cbuscu5GZkbLhq9IR7-WO34LL5e91bQgyI79rvWo7dpZiH_uEoVOnjcNOXZ5FNxWQjeolVy-xgk681Un5lT5hXj8cN_MzN7DHVTRA7iBA-GK0LedHWOGvExp4shgUzVP_RplGBnGy00eAnVc3hmr92j-iX7dKtW0TNkTaTgTLjy-f/w640-h640/Eagle%20fly%20over%20collage.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Far off across the lake I saw a big group of Common Mergansers. They are common visitors to our lake in the winter months.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC8oPbKUMq6ocAJO1gvnP0mq6XsEuOcErGf2pRBO8ASkpwCXbUf0L8Oa6GLIBuj8WcO-8Jjcoiu3srPNv9vmUpgBo-3YQqfpZh0KhGdD1qET5eTbrWBiXAMtAXk8Mbtlq0vWmwqC5qhZ9cNCYEf_fUw59bxbbMqiIWlI-sCQONwMGetBtc4h2va4A7uSDw/s1920/Common%20Merganser%20collage.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC8oPbKUMq6ocAJO1gvnP0mq6XsEuOcErGf2pRBO8ASkpwCXbUf0L8Oa6GLIBuj8WcO-8Jjcoiu3srPNv9vmUpgBo-3YQqfpZh0KhGdD1qET5eTbrWBiXAMtAXk8Mbtlq0vWmwqC5qhZ9cNCYEf_fUw59bxbbMqiIWlI-sCQONwMGetBtc4h2va4A7uSDw/w640-h640/Common%20Merganser%20collage.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">A juvenile Bald Eagle flew over the lake. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxmQ6EqeNRZb_MxScMGB7h-NIkoz0ZD0Es1AQGd1hDwJ4rLng_sIc4U27zCHveCFXh2ighKg6NGXLOUhnKOE7iRCUwXzM3-wiZepoApnCHAX0Sar1hyopJlHGPb2hb8ZLHaNZN_5-XTry4F9mzM-aevFV2lyPMdXBI9HELM7aOTKXf25Pj_-eBSfcBQ2uz/s3207/IMG_9363AA.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2719" data-original-width="3207" height="542" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxmQ6EqeNRZb_MxScMGB7h-NIkoz0ZD0Es1AQGd1hDwJ4rLng_sIc4U27zCHveCFXh2ighKg6NGXLOUhnKOE7iRCUwXzM3-wiZepoApnCHAX0Sar1hyopJlHGPb2hb8ZLHaNZN_5-XTry4F9mzM-aevFV2lyPMdXBI9HELM7aOTKXf25Pj_-eBSfcBQ2uz/w640-h542/IMG_9363AA.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">We were still able to walk on the lake shore, usually when the lake is full we have to walk on the trail.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVaR78f5Kz3Z834JvtWnf4pZEoQgc-xrGSH2Ic7saTasIsuyFR_05HmX-l4W1qnOnEIpFeNFIXbB959gZycYCxM7be5pjILWOvg8aGyYPIJ-vu-YllpL0-Wa4mWuuLtO_c6ChAt9SIwmwJYOp8mXP_6jQIhuqt-sZsDmyrWDpdC74SIFrLlGjmnLbNMrMi/s5184/IMG_9380A.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2423" data-original-width="5184" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVaR78f5Kz3Z834JvtWnf4pZEoQgc-xrGSH2Ic7saTasIsuyFR_05HmX-l4W1qnOnEIpFeNFIXbB959gZycYCxM7be5pjILWOvg8aGyYPIJ-vu-YllpL0-Wa4mWuuLtO_c6ChAt9SIwmwJYOp8mXP_6jQIhuqt-sZsDmyrWDpdC74SIFrLlGjmnLbNMrMi/w640-h300/IMG_9380A.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">At first I though I saw a deer on the trail in front of us as we were walking back to the car. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">It turned out to be a man walking his two German Pointer dogs. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg32OFKCuuELrL0vVc81hzKkXKKFwIg4U3mYgD2wwNrsfILgMfs1obi4IgwnFm2HgIgtPkBmGk21woE0ssRozzDzYjh1jcERjJ0STteNTdTxCWi_sAEbc3_TL_wwCvdCu7rq2pCQ7-QkgtSlwL_JpcmPZIiscvSVSiEFQoaKtXjOCpfIRkukEBhqBiGMkS/s2074/IMG_9396A.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1556" data-original-width="2074" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg32OFKCuuELrL0vVc81hzKkXKKFwIg4U3mYgD2wwNrsfILgMfs1obi4IgwnFm2HgIgtPkBmGk21woE0ssRozzDzYjh1jcERjJ0STteNTdTxCWi_sAEbc3_TL_wwCvdCu7rq2pCQ7-QkgtSlwL_JpcmPZIiscvSVSiEFQoaKtXjOCpfIRkukEBhqBiGMkS/w640-h480/IMG_9396A.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br />We love visiting with our grandsons and the grand-dogs, Nibbles and Winnie are cute critters. <br /><br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc4hMhSkSywv7qERx0aedKoWKMw-dJeBTYlN-SfbOATlbREt3UnJhcGT4sBP0CeTJ8LafAj5g3tiizuHkUqGx8mdDxz3KbwdXo6-Go8jukocqdZW93DBiM4jOoVItboCEgOdX0CkP8E6o9lwDKWUoTvGTsbej41LfaWP3PuhoDh81BBYoD8rLmAQvqNhMF/s1920/granddogs%202-6-24.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc4hMhSkSywv7qERx0aedKoWKMw-dJeBTYlN-SfbOATlbREt3UnJhcGT4sBP0CeTJ8LafAj5g3tiizuHkUqGx8mdDxz3KbwdXo6-Go8jukocqdZW93DBiM4jOoVItboCEgOdX0CkP8E6o9lwDKWUoTvGTsbej41LfaWP3PuhoDh81BBYoD8rLmAQvqNhMF/w640-h640/granddogs%202-6-24.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Here is another critter puzzle we have finished recently. I love the Orca whales, I had a brief glimpse of one while on an Alaska cruise.</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj_8mKHOisKThjKbuKDQGad2VTiuQ3OhUotFmnVhxI7AMOr8eFRKouuEQTz648vuJQWNLo3L5i6m9YjaJbtj7Hhk7J9vV1z28FxY1r2ZYNqJYFA4cgL6ZgNyXLLURys7stFQNPg6q8LEQa9v6tTFYaZajMUlzp2gMUrOZY8CdcnvCXanvSYksCbRaqwa3L/s1476/IMG_9888.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1476" data-original-width="1456" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj_8mKHOisKThjKbuKDQGad2VTiuQ3OhUotFmnVhxI7AMOr8eFRKouuEQTz648vuJQWNLo3L5i6m9YjaJbtj7Hhk7J9vV1z28FxY1r2ZYNqJYFA4cgL6ZgNyXLLURys7stFQNPg6q8LEQa9v6tTFYaZajMUlzp2gMUrOZY8CdcnvCXanvSYksCbRaqwa3L/w632-h640/IMG_9888.JPG" width="632" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Thank you for sharing your critters and post!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">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.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrTpqnp6zI3xrJOzTNh6QAZha1YOETkjEKa2eKSHf1LfT5xaEZ1WvtIWytRNFQfhCdgcJwEpYrgldBAW8jX6wCLwAqOJQ5kQuiW9mG-ikFGlQDiImWlFbj-GXw5NL1JPJCBLUDYOPKCLOWAf2NKEmbim2wsUYK8SQiYMXgxI_GJe69JpwfQIepe6AjwtMs/s324/saturdays-critters.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="235" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrTpqnp6zI3xrJOzTNh6QAZha1YOETkjEKa2eKSHf1LfT5xaEZ1WvtIWytRNFQfhCdgcJwEpYrgldBAW8jX6wCLwAqOJQ5kQuiW9mG-ikFGlQDiImWlFbj-GXw5NL1JPJCBLUDYOPKCLOWAf2NKEmbim2wsUYK8SQiYMXgxI_GJe69JpwfQIepe6AjwtMs/s320/saturdays-critters.jpg" width="232" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Here is my linky:</span></p><script src="//www.blenza.com/linkies/easylink.php?owner=EileeninMd&postid=29Jan2024&meme=12669" type="text/javascript"></script><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I am linking up to Heidrun's <a href="https://happy-hour-with-picts.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Mosaic Monday </a> I hope you can stop by and visit Heidrun and check out the Mosaic Monday post.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>eileeninmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00070309645796725309noreply@blogger.com116tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1264193705821192168.post-44566938211422996292024-02-26T00:00:00.015-05:002024-02-26T00:00:00.146-05:00Happy Monday! <p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> <span>Wishing everyone a great day and a ha</span><span>ppy new week!</span></span></p><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"Collecting memories one destination at a time."</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikYLXaxJ7mgT54tq9aiq8TZG6jL-dEBSjgg2_Z0d4sf6TsIqpZK6mNKJ1z9yQ73WDvOn_7VLu519lo_cvIPmfF_QKnXsh6Ezw8cxSscgVe1VKH4TcxslZSd9U2R2ERsE-9HPZxE48auo6CSfsiDe4aK6kxGIPm7PbsXdcsiPMdlbGBAh1SIyG3VIKYOFfX/s1600/Washington%20state%20beach,%20Olympic%20Nat'l%20Park.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikYLXaxJ7mgT54tq9aiq8TZG6jL-dEBSjgg2_Z0d4sf6TsIqpZK6mNKJ1z9yQ73WDvOn_7VLu519lo_cvIPmfF_QKnXsh6Ezw8cxSscgVe1VKH4TcxslZSd9U2R2ERsE-9HPZxE48auo6CSfsiDe4aK6kxGIPm7PbsXdcsiPMdlbGBAh1SIyG3VIKYOFfX/w640-h480/Washington%20state%20beach,%20Olympic%20Nat'l%20Park.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Ruby Beach, Washington State</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"My favorite place is where memories are made and cherished."</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> <span>"We tak</span><span>e photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #202124;"></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Comments off, enjoy your day!</span></p>eileeninmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00070309645796725309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1264193705821192168.post-11823281334670261352024-02-24T00:00:00.076-05:002024-02-24T00:00:00.136-05:00Saturday's Critters # 532<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Welcome to Saturday's Critters! </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Hello and Happy Saturday!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> 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!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Time seems to fly by no matter what we do, these images are from late January. On Jan 19th we had about 6 inches of snow. The birds were enjoying the peanuts and suet nuggets I put out for them.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">1. The Blue Jays are always first to arrive after I put out some food, they are piggies. I think they sit in trees above our yard and wait for me to come outside.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEshIzIRDLRGJ9scqP67hLw6SU8gblOKq4XBL_Z6djtEmP67ejQAiDYcw6a15JRlUyIIJ7kon6aYfa0ZpPSzfMeeLQiWmMqT5-6G3vN38TYs6HPwY_Evfrq76TQFlp8RdZzewORLQnTtxSFkNlobfhGSFBJ1DUBBH_XeGiZlu62IxRPI9e1cdL3XdxwHi7/s1920/Blue%20Jay%20collage.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEshIzIRDLRGJ9scqP67hLw6SU8gblOKq4XBL_Z6djtEmP67ejQAiDYcw6a15JRlUyIIJ7kon6aYfa0ZpPSzfMeeLQiWmMqT5-6G3vN38TYs6HPwY_Evfrq76TQFlp8RdZzewORLQnTtxSFkNlobfhGSFBJ1DUBBH_XeGiZlu62IxRPI9e1cdL3XdxwHi7/w640-h640/Blue%20Jay%20collage.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">2. Our snow covered deck with a White-throated Sparrow sitting on the railing waiting for some food. The winterberries are a pop of color, ready for some birds to eat.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPShvOn2MhT-zPK28aioDrkChSi7uek8qqF5KNzZAv5cesa5qYZspLr0TQoHecXQSFxXfmu_JKaYjCmCqH3AyXoqNsjalh95pC5Y0glt6JkwdRwd27Fe2UjniJEY-qliw-YuNYNj1i16e0UkTBhRLTAHqyv2qo2AIL0e1XiqQRQwX9F3NxkOCfgLsMYHUo/s1920/1-19-24%20snow.png" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPShvOn2MhT-zPK28aioDrkChSi7uek8qqF5KNzZAv5cesa5qYZspLr0TQoHecXQSFxXfmu_JKaYjCmCqH3AyXoqNsjalh95pC5Y0glt6JkwdRwd27Fe2UjniJEY-qliw-YuNYNj1i16e0UkTBhRLTAHqyv2qo2AIL0e1XiqQRQwX9F3NxkOCfgLsMYHUo/w640-h640/1-19-24%20snow.png" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">3. The Mockingbird has been enjoying some suet nuggets, when it is not eating it is chasing away other birds from the food. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgghoCrU6Ob18DeOyFIBKOaDmephBaTyR_-Tds-VWEmbZk3pfPOIKCuabUM8NVkanMHgRlwzhT7QYmCX3ROpfIGz1fQURCUgHTaQHnMFnRbd30LbUVnJj1bGjVKBT7Xq21YFtj27I2o8EYJTgjOv2TAlrZ5nDAWdrJ3FSkavxsMundy4O5Vy6G-K7OkB1WZ/s2074/IMG_9318A.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1556" data-original-width="2074" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgghoCrU6Ob18DeOyFIBKOaDmephBaTyR_-Tds-VWEmbZk3pfPOIKCuabUM8NVkanMHgRlwzhT7QYmCX3ROpfIGz1fQURCUgHTaQHnMFnRbd30LbUVnJj1bGjVKBT7Xq21YFtj27I2o8EYJTgjOv2TAlrZ5nDAWdrJ3FSkavxsMundy4O5Vy6G-K7OkB1WZ/w640-h480/IMG_9318A.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">4. Looking out my window, I noticed 2 bunnies in our side yard. I hope they are finding food the ground was covered with snow. One bunny is almost hidden on the far left. The window blinds made this photo look strange. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzFzo1R0IFjHzhyphenhyphenRN2EU0ts2UNAViGg7-xG9YQrNaBIwApNhyohgMauA-heJSWyHYM0ZGcP4oebYAr_Ko8KmM_BSwGCv3GN35xjenNzqeFX0ujZyHYvIF43yB_itrYZLZn95T3Gwac2xGVfQtgaTHL_23YStWcEdBRP7ErqrQYGlEuTFhlhuJMYvX-ZFd7/s1903/IMG_9322A.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1903" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzFzo1R0IFjHzhyphenhyphenRN2EU0ts2UNAViGg7-xG9YQrNaBIwApNhyohgMauA-heJSWyHYM0ZGcP4oebYAr_Ko8KmM_BSwGCv3GN35xjenNzqeFX0ujZyHYvIF43yB_itrYZLZn95T3Gwac2xGVfQtgaTHL_23YStWcEdBRP7ErqrQYGlEuTFhlhuJMYvX-ZFd7/w640-h430/IMG_9322A.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">5. Jan 26th Prettyboy reservoir has a layer of ice on top and little section of open water where the Canada Geese were paddling around. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdUumuLmm39D6d_uYTv5qC3wDHrX-nda9SOA6fj5VQ705gp0zIjswf4FQgXG-i-bTnbNpKLq3nlm2mk7lWPfFkAYYaGxTfzwevAMMpROrRT70Pp-zEnmgtEmnJ6AT8aDM2j4qb9ZBmF5BwCm2DegemWK92gEW4kS-waa7qwOUM-TWEN78q5j-qiJ-R2D23/s1920/Prettyboy%20collage.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdUumuLmm39D6d_uYTv5qC3wDHrX-nda9SOA6fj5VQ705gp0zIjswf4FQgXG-i-bTnbNpKLq3nlm2mk7lWPfFkAYYaGxTfzwevAMMpROrRT70Pp-zEnmgtEmnJ6AT8aDM2j4qb9ZBmF5BwCm2DegemWK92gEW4kS-waa7qwOUM-TWEN78q5j-qiJ-R2D23/w640-h640/Prettyboy%20collage.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">6. I am happy to see we have had enough rain/snow to start filling up the reservoir after last year's drought.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjchLUtxiIyYl5W3hW7a-Uwy1xTp9-p11BofWiGm34uAlQXFq3m-6CXl8JG3t12nJytjlTD1nr12a3BNaiCncf9uYNaSymV0sNEbnG3Cg226QyIcghwgkyAPm0T1WbFiylMmjnOlvqYcGzXJsjan86pDo3SJKqCdgCVowhZacwNMRDnPAmUDALP21-7KtCF/s2074/IMG_9329A.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1556" data-original-width="2074" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjchLUtxiIyYl5W3hW7a-Uwy1xTp9-p11BofWiGm34uAlQXFq3m-6CXl8JG3t12nJytjlTD1nr12a3BNaiCncf9uYNaSymV0sNEbnG3Cg226QyIcghwgkyAPm0T1WbFiylMmjnOlvqYcGzXJsjan86pDo3SJKqCdgCVowhZacwNMRDnPAmUDALP21-7KtCF/w640-h480/IMG_9329A.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">7. After our walk to the lake, we are home to hear the male Cardinal banging on our front window. The female is sitting back further in the rhododendron watching her mate attack his reflection in the window. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtLThwW7p-okjcnY4VdwhzBH_zmlhdYPte2PsJMXeafijQvrnSQgnYmuTu9iPWf6-jYFdv-J8RndPAFbQQXQXJEhjdZnnmgx-0r6C2tzfW7-MP74Zs06SZn0MAW7Ja7xmQ2ak7czdTOrMGgez2GxqrK-DMDYMzsHuE_bPGDVGCEP56oFsfPmWBiXbmanG6/s1920/Cardinal%20collage.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtLThwW7p-okjcnY4VdwhzBH_zmlhdYPte2PsJMXeafijQvrnSQgnYmuTu9iPWf6-jYFdv-J8RndPAFbQQXQXJEhjdZnnmgx-0r6C2tzfW7-MP74Zs06SZn0MAW7Ja7xmQ2ak7czdTOrMGgez2GxqrK-DMDYMzsHuE_bPGDVGCEP56oFsfPmWBiXbmanG6/w640-h640/Cardinal%20collage.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">8. Hubby and I enjoy working on 1000 piece puzzles on the bad weather days. I loved this Toucan puzzle. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtxl88l1oGFKAB_GSnGCZ3IgzaNkt5SqvknVnCjzMjcukJoYRAYLJwuG-YZt7W7Zru7bXcR-26AO7Bb_Wzf7LRaaBtlua2imnFhHQdnywNtXzXHT93cXxapSI93mJd5bJ2qYRCg0uhSpcge1VGagVTQUkLDRx2H3T7dKs4JYsNflPTzTJwltnpDmyxwm-L/s1518/IMG_9323A.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1518" data-original-width="1495" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtxl88l1oGFKAB_GSnGCZ3IgzaNkt5SqvknVnCjzMjcukJoYRAYLJwuG-YZt7W7Zru7bXcR-26AO7Bb_Wzf7LRaaBtlua2imnFhHQdnywNtXzXHT93cXxapSI93mJd5bJ2qYRCg0uhSpcge1VGagVTQUkLDRx2H3T7dKs4JYsNflPTzTJwltnpDmyxwm-L/w630-h640/IMG_9323A.JPG" width="630" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Thank you for sharing your critters and post!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Thanks to all my visitors and for your past and present comments. 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<p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I am linking up to Heidrun's <a href="https://happy-hour-with-picts.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Mosaic Monday </a> I hope you can stop by and visit Heidrun and check out the Mosaic Monday post.</span></p>eileeninmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00070309645796725309noreply@blogger.com110tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1264193705821192168.post-77315721085857126962024-02-19T00:00:00.012-05:002024-02-19T00:00:00.135-05:00Happy Monday!<p><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: verdana;">Wishing everyone a great day and a ha</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">ppy new week!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana;"><b>"Live simply, bloom wildly."</b></span></span></p><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq_Auwz4HZtnMmtfI6LhKhqTYnvhBNpmLxfxilAbb0VXEfjFXbtNQLEG5JCaIEy0YtIID-q-vaTyf3ZjbLHgS5baig79-AamPCIcDrqLw8Wpa6Ys2f2Uf3LCUa-whos-u2LtuBaZ20YdeUFoCsaRcDOtY6vx5aSnxaAbkoSw-e7DMMlgBQJ-ErJiexa-up/s1600/IMG_7084A.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq_Auwz4HZtnMmtfI6LhKhqTYnvhBNpmLxfxilAbb0VXEfjFXbtNQLEG5JCaIEy0YtIID-q-vaTyf3ZjbLHgS5baig79-AamPCIcDrqLw8Wpa6Ys2f2Uf3LCUa-whos-u2LtuBaZ20YdeUFoCsaRcDOtY6vx5aSnxaAbkoSw-e7DMMlgBQJ-ErJiexa-up/w640-h480/IMG_7084A.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"Live life in full bloom."</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> <span>"We tak</span><span>e photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #202124;"></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Comments off, enjoy your day!</span></p>eileeninmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00070309645796725309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1264193705821192168.post-51063102245455830112024-02-17T00:00:00.134-05:002024-02-17T00:00:00.130-05:00Saturday's Critters # 531<p> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Welcome to Saturday's Critters! </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Hello and Happy Saturday!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> 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!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">My latest trip has been to my archives. I usually prepare several post in advance so I will always be a month or so behind. At this time, Hubby and I have not been anywhere special due to the super cold weather or the rain/snow days. So I went back and visited previous posts, taking photos from the past 5 years during the month of February. Photos are of some of my favorite places, birds and critters. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">From a February 2019 post, I was reporting on our Florida trip and visit to the Green Cay Preserve. In the mosaic are the Painted Buntings, Swamphen, a Tricolored Heron, Little Blue Heron, Palm Tree, Purple Gallinule, Green Heron, Glossy Ibis and a Pied billed Grebe. Florida is one of my favorite places for birdwatching. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjankEPzq0i2Sul4NTx8sodoR6IhZU_4H_W2RS9IcRZ0QLmxIOclmaU6_-9eZnuskJwaLXZhzKMl9epUKvkHVD3v8LDYlACi4aV_3cYaAMI6bhk-VENwEH3zoQbUShRwhy_BHIzuSBKKJQZ5CQMNqg-EuWotZ_ekDU_aAXQgBO39V_qijH8cNfXjrbDPviZ/s1600/Feb%202019%20_%20Green%20Cay%20Florida.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1143" data-original-width="1600" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjankEPzq0i2Sul4NTx8sodoR6IhZU_4H_W2RS9IcRZ0QLmxIOclmaU6_-9eZnuskJwaLXZhzKMl9epUKvkHVD3v8LDYlACi4aV_3cYaAMI6bhk-VENwEH3zoQbUShRwhy_BHIzuSBKKJQZ5CQMNqg-EuWotZ_ekDU_aAXQgBO39V_qijH8cNfXjrbDPviZ/w640-h458/Feb%202019%20_%20Green%20Cay%20Florida.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Also a few more photos from our Green Cay Nature Center are the American Bittern and below is the Green Heron.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTQtmtBoCAoJwBBkp5Jo-yrP4D9WB0zMhkXYVSra0Kv66h0uUdBup6IsyhRCQFQFjIjg0qI1U3nX2TO3wi0kQILkfqQc6ZX1mXu37hIaQTE23IpAUf1e4-FYtc4glNuVWbTcTVUfUrxk6TzA9-QrM719ztzszIX11p-YwpHi38uS8ck3oJuVn9XA7Out7k/s1600/Feb%20Green%20Cay%20Green%20heron%20and%20American%20Bittern.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTQtmtBoCAoJwBBkp5Jo-yrP4D9WB0zMhkXYVSra0Kv66h0uUdBup6IsyhRCQFQFjIjg0qI1U3nX2TO3wi0kQILkfqQc6ZX1mXu37hIaQTE23IpAUf1e4-FYtc4glNuVWbTcTVUfUrxk6TzA9-QrM719ztzszIX11p-YwpHi38uS8ck3oJuVn9XA7Out7k/w640-h400/Feb%20Green%20Cay%20Green%20heron%20and%20American%20Bittern.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Also from Green Cay are my favorite Florida Bird, the Painted Bunting, seen below with a female Painted Bunting. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgu41_tEPxNy1pt2zFDjEiRQPlklFdbw9GSGygM5DAXjdKvmrSUItUzhTR2lPxnu9G-Xkgv0pAVYzPPxsvXo798R84vQO6E8WQuSnYYd0uQnAW8SNAo2E52g_CTeM7QlLE97uWzbe8HU-THrSMr2YdbzTTXrYENhVlgmICUdIEyJ3of5Ass2DDv5fblUzu/s1844/2019%20Green%20Cay%20Nature%20Center%20Painted%20Bunting..jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1383" data-original-width="1844" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgu41_tEPxNy1pt2zFDjEiRQPlklFdbw9GSGygM5DAXjdKvmrSUItUzhTR2lPxnu9G-Xkgv0pAVYzPPxsvXo798R84vQO6E8WQuSnYYd0uQnAW8SNAo2E52g_CTeM7QlLE97uWzbe8HU-THrSMr2YdbzTTXrYENhVlgmICUdIEyJ3of5Ass2DDv5fblUzu/w640-h480/2019%20Green%20Cay%20Nature%20Center%20Painted%20Bunting..jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Another bird seen at the Green Cay Nature Center are the Wood Storks, their nest were right next to the boardwalk.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1hhiQwHdGk66hUOLxd8leFxXNsQ1iGLN-U6cPQQiQDbKqeF_QPeRHRzAP535oiHt85Vakq7WtXBIkSUBz2FAT63DE8vM_O5dVEkQhHDQ_RtTjxmcChXKA5g4dkCUegG64cl-h2FkoEbhvg9dNWJgRScXyljf_1YZcUwE3af9j3JOn3xu-Gpn9rzbz3DdE/s1844/2019%20Wood%20Storks.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1383" data-original-width="1844" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1hhiQwHdGk66hUOLxd8leFxXNsQ1iGLN-U6cPQQiQDbKqeF_QPeRHRzAP535oiHt85Vakq7WtXBIkSUBz2FAT63DE8vM_O5dVEkQhHDQ_RtTjxmcChXKA5g4dkCUegG64cl-h2FkoEbhvg9dNWJgRScXyljf_1YZcUwE3af9j3JOn3xu-Gpn9rzbz3DdE/w640-h480/2019%20Wood%20Storks.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">From my February 2020 post, I am sharing some of my favorite back yard birds: the Eastern Bluebirds, Downy Woodpecker, American Goldfinch, more Goldfinches with a House Finch, another Male Bluebird, a Dark-eyed Junco, a White-throated Sparrow, male Downy Woodpecker and a Carolina Wren.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ_5sWZT0Iqsn7_qeBUIkFX74Go6vReyo_UN2cqW474IgviyfDEfssPnNoxwkAVYF9D4qDC_tjWFsX2YEHrPy6pTABBoksaTQKbYj6iWbuMnEre6jQ1tA9nhEmv0mBJg9ly4vaxW-_i1F7JAn1UD_GZB_gAJUvF4oFP8RDDxAA7VumKUi2ZqLL8WP18Zfl/s1600/Feb%202020%20Back%20yard%20birds.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ_5sWZT0Iqsn7_qeBUIkFX74Go6vReyo_UN2cqW474IgviyfDEfssPnNoxwkAVYF9D4qDC_tjWFsX2YEHrPy6pTABBoksaTQKbYj6iWbuMnEre6jQ1tA9nhEmv0mBJg9ly4vaxW-_i1F7JAn1UD_GZB_gAJUvF4oFP8RDDxAA7VumKUi2ZqLL8WP18Zfl/w640-h480/Feb%202020%20Back%20yard%20birds.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">From Feb 2020, one of my all time favorite birds is the Eastern Bluebird. I feel lucky when they choose one of my birdhouses for their nest. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUD7SFTPXCTXh-KBi2RHw1LwRtP6pzKhbviWeIaCeEdCDxUw-XBduTdDrdKzm1QpoSn3Ein5KjM6iWTUv2OXRmkQCK7eDRo8cnYfxxxPNcc9TwqtE584eyZMrASFoMtz6n9lc1nH1DLr-DagdEd8f_BCM09wrkcHo_eF-jMOnw_z6P2muJX6IPf0bnjb9D/s1600/Feb%202020%20%20Bluebird.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1114" data-original-width="1600" height="446" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUD7SFTPXCTXh-KBi2RHw1LwRtP6pzKhbviWeIaCeEdCDxUw-XBduTdDrdKzm1QpoSn3Ein5KjM6iWTUv2OXRmkQCK7eDRo8cnYfxxxPNcc9TwqtE584eyZMrASFoMtz6n9lc1nH1DLr-DagdEd8f_BCM09wrkcHo_eF-jMOnw_z6P2muJX6IPf0bnjb9D/w640-h446/Feb%202020%20%20Bluebird.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">From a February 2021 post, I have one of my favorite woodpeckers, in my yard is the Pileated Woodpecker. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilxQlSHSIbvQTEN2zsI9agght3hlrj6HP2xp5cFK9Pg5iWJ1cdmtesmsGbC2mMrMJsAXtlCcVWkt7kTAADOgGnG7tpRb1Pdv-2ir1vuwmPDM4wRJlmZMkpCSwLSyVFSMp6-qWyZgf4_BD6M2p9DFkoUKY3jJZPkxbbVylqEt3CM1q0y6rnNFqfRlJMCdA6/s1325/Feb%202021%20back%20yard%20%20Pileated%20Woodpecker.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1325" data-original-width="1325" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilxQlSHSIbvQTEN2zsI9agght3hlrj6HP2xp5cFK9Pg5iWJ1cdmtesmsGbC2mMrMJsAXtlCcVWkt7kTAADOgGnG7tpRb1Pdv-2ir1vuwmPDM4wRJlmZMkpCSwLSyVFSMp6-qWyZgf4_BD6M2p9DFkoUKY3jJZPkxbbVylqEt3CM1q0y6rnNFqfRlJMCdA6/w640-h640/Feb%202021%20back%20yard%20%20Pileated%20Woodpecker.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">From my post in February 2022, we were dog sitting for our son while his house was being built. 8 months of watching our grand-dogs Nibbles and Winnie at our house. They enjoyed their walks to the lake and on the fire roads. Also in the mosaic are Eastern Bluebirds and the lake. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB2hD_ip_GsB9EbJ_XOHCefbnpGDmaM5ML6mMSFKGh01M4QvZv05WOJTw0EQMbwucFVoE_L9LNOTdEIPRNRfFxoe_IME80A_3IwH8FAZCg6muxC6G0xB01rsqLIOzHQ2hCHUbtDrSGz5ybpyX2lJHv0cCHl3-E0nTlnUW2zZLPjJ_kGH3Bf2cqUzzmjw7-/s2304/Feb%202022%20Grand-dogs%20and%20Bluebirds%20at%20Prettyboy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1383" data-original-width="2304" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB2hD_ip_GsB9EbJ_XOHCefbnpGDmaM5ML6mMSFKGh01M4QvZv05WOJTw0EQMbwucFVoE_L9LNOTdEIPRNRfFxoe_IME80A_3IwH8FAZCg6muxC6G0xB01rsqLIOzHQ2hCHUbtDrSGz5ybpyX2lJHv0cCHl3-E0nTlnUW2zZLPjJ_kGH3Bf2cqUzzmjw7-/w640-h384/Feb%202022%20Grand-dogs%20and%20Bluebirds%20at%20Prettyboy.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">From February 2023, we were excited to see my lifer the Golden Eagle in our area at the Prettyboy reservoir. It hung around for a few weeks. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5jv4jZwnPG2ZGf3r6PmVWJqm1nqD6rvbWk1Jg_Ygg3WgWCRALASwd6CO9fN8wqqxzNrpAzKJejPia-BC94QRj1r8GQgvfzK_UcdR2YzjA4aJ6LcTffJsimI3ZyosjFYKooOycTECVcmKa-xJ7m0yAuS6c7U-yiRajzEWJFQx4aO9uWh5So6-WXO9yOJDb/s2304/Feb%202023%20Golden%20Eagle%20at%20Prettyboy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="2304" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5jv4jZwnPG2ZGf3r6PmVWJqm1nqD6rvbWk1Jg_Ygg3WgWCRALASwd6CO9fN8wqqxzNrpAzKJejPia-BC94QRj1r8GQgvfzK_UcdR2YzjA4aJ6LcTffJsimI3ZyosjFYKooOycTECVcmKa-xJ7m0yAuS6c7U-yiRajzEWJFQx4aO9uWh5So6-WXO9yOJDb/w640-h400/Feb%202023%20Golden%20Eagle%20at%20Prettyboy.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Here is a larger view of the Golden Eagle. This Eagle is a dark brown with golden brown plumage on the nape. The Golden Eagle is a beautiful raptor. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNKlygQrSLKelY9OkcpiS7wkB8KXUJa06CCHH2juEjkW544z354iUfDKL6SIF5k0kROrq-4sYQkDWG7Mqwzg1EFJHuNBchG2lbBe97Ol4mLio6nLH6C-eEeovtUbY-7w55UT2zeUXX9zPDrr12GRKx8xAy06FU_3aeFoObe8cP0yy1MDGeWvDnGCDJgJzr/s1427/IMG_8897A.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1162" data-original-width="1427" height="522" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNKlygQrSLKelY9OkcpiS7wkB8KXUJa06CCHH2juEjkW544z354iUfDKL6SIF5k0kROrq-4sYQkDWG7Mqwzg1EFJHuNBchG2lbBe97Ol4mLio6nLH6C-eEeovtUbY-7w55UT2zeUXX9zPDrr12GRKx8xAy06FU_3aeFoObe8cP0yy1MDGeWvDnGCDJgJzr/w640-h522/IMG_8897A.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Thank you for sharing your critters and post!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Thanks to all my visitors and for your past and present comments. 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Thank you for linking up a critter post.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7506yqBMeGXQgR6Oi8LvP8DYSEdxKbLkVRRZdae6RElI6u0Egtyw0PJaf7put5Gg6F8DMOXNAJx21Z5ikYNBJHfG2Xxws8avGsg3dsC0OLG3n6COeEf2OrG4twtge1o-Fw9HjdAx_Npabu28ixVMeS_LbXs19dwgiH3eL0SgX1azRDkt01UY5p9zHSHgs/s324/saturdays-critters.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="235" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7506yqBMeGXQgR6Oi8LvP8DYSEdxKbLkVRRZdae6RElI6u0Egtyw0PJaf7put5Gg6F8DMOXNAJx21Z5ikYNBJHfG2Xxws8avGsg3dsC0OLG3n6COeEf2OrG4twtge1o-Fw9HjdAx_Npabu28ixVMeS_LbXs19dwgiH3eL0SgX1azRDkt01UY5p9zHSHgs/s320/saturdays-critters.jpg" width="232" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Here is my linky:</span></p><script src="//www.blenza.com/linkies/easylink.php?owner=EileeninMd&postid=23Jan2024&meme=12669" type="text/javascript"></script><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I am linking up to Heidrun's <a href="https://happy-hour-with-picts.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Mosaic Monday </a> I hope you can stop by and visit Heidrun and check out the Mosaic Monday post.</span></p>eileeninmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00070309645796725309noreply@blogger.com114tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1264193705821192168.post-5808767764621760352024-02-12T00:00:00.014-05:002024-02-12T00:00:00.142-05:00Happy Monday! <p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span>Wishing everyone a great day and a ha</span><span>ppy new week!</span></span></p><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>"Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky."</b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span><br /></span></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5yp2kU7AjMLWkKgcPLgk29ri75-X2IlAzZSBn0xHCGE4GgdjM6EKbP0NcOEKvlh4hM_Qs4N7AH0a3ZZCm70GBI0gAksnZcsTzX-vfp78Uvcr1QDQixPATZbDRs4oqWqOp2fti5E_jeBQcfroxvR9iXyDYX9-jUqfpfWEJvBG3qIFQeonNt935LwpSj-65/s2074/IMG_9197A.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1556" data-original-width="2074" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5yp2kU7AjMLWkKgcPLgk29ri75-X2IlAzZSBn0xHCGE4GgdjM6EKbP0NcOEKvlh4hM_Qs4N7AH0a3ZZCm70GBI0gAksnZcsTzX-vfp78Uvcr1QDQixPATZbDRs4oqWqOp2fti5E_jeBQcfroxvR9iXyDYX9-jUqfpfWEJvBG3qIFQeonNt935LwpSj-65/w640-h480/IMG_9197A.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"Nature is not a place to visit, it is home."</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> <span>"We tak</span><span>e photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #202124;"></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Comments off, enjoy your day!</span></p>eileeninmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00070309645796725309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1264193705821192168.post-21846827275751065282024-02-10T00:00:00.101-05:002024-02-10T00:00:00.136-05:00Saturday's Critters # 530<p> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Welcome to Saturday's Critters! </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Hello and Happy Saturday!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> 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!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">These images are from the middle of January. It was our first real snow of the year. We had a week of super cold days, temps ranged from the lows teens to low twenty's. I've been putting out the peanuts in the shells and some of the suet peanut nuggets that the birds love. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">1. Below are the female Downy Woodpecker, a Tufted Titmouse and the Dark-eyed Junco.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjquF_f6j7RVmY8ctr3EmkBLqpWoOup-jsgcPmNacDRClNydr7r8JR16EQlzIym7qUd6PtDV598GwryJ_-lSy0hXj-Jp-Aqk1Fi6TWSpuTDy1nB9CBsBJMA5j7dK-mHkgP_64RmpXhkluvQuq_Mc4ykr61z9qVg5RIXQ_RgrrFTi4YN4Vi2xEPUIEMzGx3U/s1920/1_12_24%20yard%20birds%20collage.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjquF_f6j7RVmY8ctr3EmkBLqpWoOup-jsgcPmNacDRClNydr7r8JR16EQlzIym7qUd6PtDV598GwryJ_-lSy0hXj-Jp-Aqk1Fi6TWSpuTDy1nB9CBsBJMA5j7dK-mHkgP_64RmpXhkluvQuq_Mc4ykr61z9qVg5RIXQ_RgrrFTi4YN4Vi2xEPUIEMzGx3U/w640-h640/1_12_24%20yard%20birds%20collage.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">2. The Titmouse found some suet crumbs to eat. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMO1Art0Rqt0oJCo37IVBKtBB_xwkykOd-7yRGJ8-69k5rUkiuEwhcLbjQepKc5qXsj2jNJka2LgOsbeGBcF27_eIb3PRYKpHvMoh6aCsQO-U6WXinfH43m66zsDkV2EZIbCpdtYmvPs5xpqhuGsWYh53wB3mnCf-AfdG-51lZy-fvWUnypKlCscz6ocKb/s2074/IMG_9279A.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1556" data-original-width="2074" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMO1Art0Rqt0oJCo37IVBKtBB_xwkykOd-7yRGJ8-69k5rUkiuEwhcLbjQepKc5qXsj2jNJka2LgOsbeGBcF27_eIb3PRYKpHvMoh6aCsQO-U6WXinfH43m66zsDkV2EZIbCpdtYmvPs5xpqhuGsWYh53wB3mnCf-AfdG-51lZy-fvWUnypKlCscz6ocKb/w640-h480/IMG_9279A.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">3. The Downy Woodpecker is also enjoying some leftover suet crumbs. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitS2mUnrwuuUdDwuSUoVjSB5elHKutZeH9z1fBv3q7_TdoF87SevoLnM0TwLdNG_Yw4Eq3AzId1LVgt8bAzeTbziruS4weznsErdlgW8CGi6J3VtiHEy1jo3tA4dpFmGofZe9Gnt0-NAHYInex8FYYpGRQryjH5FS_GaBHa-vgqw8CyFRSGziWOvkVM8vh/s2074/IMG_9282A.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1556" data-original-width="2074" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitS2mUnrwuuUdDwuSUoVjSB5elHKutZeH9z1fBv3q7_TdoF87SevoLnM0TwLdNG_Yw4Eq3AzId1LVgt8bAzeTbziruS4weznsErdlgW8CGi6J3VtiHEy1jo3tA4dpFmGofZe9Gnt0-NAHYInex8FYYpGRQryjH5FS_GaBHa-vgqw8CyFRSGziWOvkVM8vh/w640-h480/IMG_9282A.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">4. Jan 16th was our first real storm in years. Last year we did not even have to use our shovel once. The Tufted Titmouse is one of my common yard birds. They like both the peanuts in the shell and the suet nuggets. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDiX-2Qnyv21rtogYMJmDmzOYg4fy2zGlE8zIQ1I_cYf_bjKojHSuamuyEUqSRT_QdEQOenog0CE9ATfneJyNLNJv68Gm8-EFs8bV6G6RqDOfbekpY0tpnf-toDAUgj3JuF7fRZaLGA-9egYm3hQvHFDoQSvzbo5eYGwWkvwebu-TRpw55lM6zG8ekboJI/s1920/1_16_24%20snow%20and%20yard%20birds%20collage.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDiX-2Qnyv21rtogYMJmDmzOYg4fy2zGlE8zIQ1I_cYf_bjKojHSuamuyEUqSRT_QdEQOenog0CE9ATfneJyNLNJv68Gm8-EFs8bV6G6RqDOfbekpY0tpnf-toDAUgj3JuF7fRZaLGA-9egYm3hQvHFDoQSvzbo5eYGwWkvwebu-TRpw55lM6zG8ekboJI/w640-h640/1_16_24%20snow%20and%20yard%20birds%20collage.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">5. They are hungry birds when the snow is coming down. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifat4fxBZ2iX1_aJdjTbJMdiBIWEOev4q9AH48t_Qp7wR8-kXexugaxDYw7yug5u4WIwkNnERcHrFNdZNPwzRWx_jBXhuhJyJwM6m3FD2yxtoFikNyw48e8gEOQtIJP2Hp9eHET7RF-tcqyqlBv6dMd3PYVJohEc-pYzfwoHU5Q-7oJ8ahcFRUikImmp3C/s2074/IMG_9296A.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1556" data-original-width="2074" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifat4fxBZ2iX1_aJdjTbJMdiBIWEOev4q9AH48t_Qp7wR8-kXexugaxDYw7yug5u4WIwkNnERcHrFNdZNPwzRWx_jBXhuhJyJwM6m3FD2yxtoFikNyw48e8gEOQtIJP2Hp9eHET7RF-tcqyqlBv6dMd3PYVJohEc-pYzfwoHU5Q-7oJ8ahcFRUikImmp3C/w640-h480/IMG_9296A.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">6. The female Red-bellied Woodpecker also love the peanuts and the suet nuggets. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY-vJvVJFoxPPB33pZe-QWHXinjpok3xqt0Csb-FGK_kmwWrth_XShDAr4RpEcsswZdMq7IgJgYdJpkzjkQnUJNuNdPDUlKUtxBeeifTRlHGDqmJySJtY6TtNEdQgAgl6FYySMNgtdIvniNBkT3hlK3gExsdr0wir3yoEZ-Hg1KK0rqJKcsPqN2BHdZfDP/s2074/IMG_9301A.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1556" data-original-width="2074" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY-vJvVJFoxPPB33pZe-QWHXinjpok3xqt0Csb-FGK_kmwWrth_XShDAr4RpEcsswZdMq7IgJgYdJpkzjkQnUJNuNdPDUlKUtxBeeifTRlHGDqmJySJtY6TtNEdQgAgl6FYySMNgtdIvniNBkT3hlK3gExsdr0wir3yoEZ-Hg1KK0rqJKcsPqN2BHdZfDP/w640-h480/IMG_9301A.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">7. A cute photo of the Dark-eyed Junco with some snowflakes on it's beak. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghwinJfaqfNl-lZRUbQktmadzlmfFk2La-rD0zZnzYJWPRGhkVr4ukDmOSYEGmXXe_g1DjqnWSW5J_73O1OtQMK1UKvKR3_pfyabbxWbhlvNxEt22rk04L-vuqAEVOmtAjcaj4TmcBb-GilrAHl2jNMHyFnzhn2RpRhKq94dBOR-8xoCbATQODOKoUXnr0/s2074/IMG_9302A.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1556" data-original-width="2074" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghwinJfaqfNl-lZRUbQktmadzlmfFk2La-rD0zZnzYJWPRGhkVr4ukDmOSYEGmXXe_g1DjqnWSW5J_73O1OtQMK1UKvKR3_pfyabbxWbhlvNxEt22rk04L-vuqAEVOmtAjcaj4TmcBb-GilrAHl2jNMHyFnzhn2RpRhKq94dBOR-8xoCbATQODOKoUXnr0/w640-h480/IMG_9302A.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">8. The White-throated Sparrows are another common bird for me in the winter months. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6YIQAZm3ELyn2m2PqnuRCvhRY0reo776RrxJP-eMY_Javv4tXFw24m3q_gVRUeYXNqfT2ZPopAOBdwM-Vh6jyQjH0AuJHNeYnDDA2l_XkJnCPqJwIomovCS4vzsOtjzNuMYtnHI2KyGwBQPsn-k-zy1_AsWcpKTd6p1D3tB2yicR6zZaxkWBBee3Ns5y1/s2074/IMG_9303A.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1556" data-original-width="2074" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6YIQAZm3ELyn2m2PqnuRCvhRY0reo776RrxJP-eMY_Javv4tXFw24m3q_gVRUeYXNqfT2ZPopAOBdwM-Vh6jyQjH0AuJHNeYnDDA2l_XkJnCPqJwIomovCS4vzsOtjzNuMYtnHI2KyGwBQPsn-k-zy1_AsWcpKTd6p1D3tB2yicR6zZaxkWBBee3Ns5y1/w640-h480/IMG_9303A.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">After the snowstorm, we had a pretty sunset. We couldn't be there for our grandson's first time playing in the snow. It looks like they had a fun time!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9yYvQ0HgtwfGRKxpkNhoS0UOcLhSapelIE9XPJyTsArjujFLFduuDW0EYg-t4CdzeYDUAcYLRfy9GCcYaYKyh9FZpGoVJPI_vDcyIkEDW-5GdNXSQO4HxioMCh9Fq4dlEoUk1JsmKBbAWfd3eUjzMYMX_dEAa3uYYsuB2XLewOQcCQaqsz63DIfWUy8ml/s1920/bonus%20collage.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9yYvQ0HgtwfGRKxpkNhoS0UOcLhSapelIE9XPJyTsArjujFLFduuDW0EYg-t4CdzeYDUAcYLRfy9GCcYaYKyh9FZpGoVJPI_vDcyIkEDW-5GdNXSQO4HxioMCh9Fq4dlEoUk1JsmKBbAWfd3eUjzMYMX_dEAa3uYYsuB2XLewOQcCQaqsz63DIfWUy8ml/w640-h640/bonus%20collage.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Bonus, the grandsons celebrated both their birthdays with a joint party on Feb 3rd. Wyatt will be 3 on Feb 15th and Mason was 2 on Jan 24th. We also had an announcement they will be getting a baby sister and we will have a granddaughter. Happy Times!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDrwVS2ZqiwNORrPiZbQwSXRSQz-ttmOImIaRDe68Cl5WfZTqw7D5vLCwg-ERyfu2zu-RAKb85szJB5dHqXoU-PCVd2Zqe4GVv2elNJp_xYWuDHst183YvWPt7xnmqbkw9jCbtv6o102TVnrFwEMyBWMM4GG-bgxKYpQ3YlCNonzFCm5rXHVypkaKpuaTj/s1920/Birthday-little%20sister%20collage.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDrwVS2ZqiwNORrPiZbQwSXRSQz-ttmOImIaRDe68Cl5WfZTqw7D5vLCwg-ERyfu2zu-RAKb85szJB5dHqXoU-PCVd2Zqe4GVv2elNJp_xYWuDHst183YvWPt7xnmqbkw9jCbtv6o102TVnrFwEMyBWMM4GG-bgxKYpQ3YlCNonzFCm5rXHVypkaKpuaTj/w640-h640/Birthday-little%20sister%20collage.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Thank you for sharing your critters and post!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">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. 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font-size: large;"><span>Wishing everyone a great day and a ha</span><span>ppy new week!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"Sky above, sand below, peace within."</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif_ZxyCacg-JshOsGjskbT4qFTIJ4KBZsMgrAhiltjet8wC5WwOCt19KIHrgBmz8reJFr6Xk6NbkkZHDzDih3KSe1-RLC3ByVundlAUEatxAEfVHWW4CgTuv8r1oKObDS4oB-SqCMi_Oa4e9Fw_NExUxm9OAN_22lX67C5Uf5uVLBBhnMRFkBAyxRm2Qdt/s1613/IMG_2878A.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1210" data-original-width="1613" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif_ZxyCacg-JshOsGjskbT4qFTIJ4KBZsMgrAhiltjet8wC5WwOCt19KIHrgBmz8reJFr6Xk6NbkkZHDzDih3KSe1-RLC3ByVundlAUEatxAEfVHWW4CgTuv8r1oKObDS4oB-SqCMi_Oa4e9Fw_NExUxm9OAN_22lX67C5Uf5uVLBBhnMRFkBAyxRm2Qdt/w640-h480/IMG_2878A.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>" An ocean breeze puts a mind at ease."</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">"We tak</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">e photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #202124;"></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Comments off, enjoy your day!</span></p>eileeninmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00070309645796725309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1264193705821192168.post-63679455302316281172024-02-03T00:00:00.090-05:002024-02-03T00:00:00.264-05:00Saturday's Critters # 529<p><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>Welcome to Saturday's Critters! </span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Hello and Happy Saturday!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> 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!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Most mornings I put out some peanuts in the shells and some peanut suet nuggets for my back yard birds. The Blue Jays my most common yard bird. They arrive in large numbers making a lot of noise. They take as much as they can fit into their beaks/mouths. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">1. I hope you are not tired of seeing the Blue Jays. They love to eat the peanuts and the suet peanut balls. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkKgqgKhsKByFqiix-cbbqeoKOSZ25XNrUayL14rNTByQ9w1XKmJLqnhajp-vLA1qsroG2k6eUYChcu2DA_eain1J4DYgq8-uZRdZt6EN5LWW5m7stce0WLeM3ZoA-JWcqL8sGOzGfIJV1i-KE2KSjhGWM6yyGqvRmWcMRw_vYUsMtwP_jZBoH015DW5u-/s1920/Blue%20Jay%20collage.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkKgqgKhsKByFqiix-cbbqeoKOSZ25XNrUayL14rNTByQ9w1XKmJLqnhajp-vLA1qsroG2k6eUYChcu2DA_eain1J4DYgq8-uZRdZt6EN5LWW5m7stce0WLeM3ZoA-JWcqL8sGOzGfIJV1i-KE2KSjhGWM6yyGqvRmWcMRw_vYUsMtwP_jZBoH015DW5u-/w640-h640/Blue%20Jay%20collage.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">2. Later we took our walk on the NCR trail, we did a little shopping at the local grocery store we rode past the Friendly Farms ponds on our way home. On Jan 5th we saw a big flock of Canada Geese and various ducks on the ponds. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilvvGdPJarXyTQ9yrv2KDnzPbGiwTnCyzlQ5cPDC19uAWr7ZjDsTLEg0tGg0FsRkB9xJkEcSS4zYRJuRCVbfeOO7llivbMj2vLJScM4UugV9zGOoARjl5DlAwd57uanfi8wRI1SXxU520zSjXribDWJ5U18GiKR5eVUy9-sMVpqCj9GjNAIt0ZiYbXf6ca/s2333/IMG_9219A.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1750" data-original-width="2333" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilvvGdPJarXyTQ9yrv2KDnzPbGiwTnCyzlQ5cPDC19uAWr7ZjDsTLEg0tGg0FsRkB9xJkEcSS4zYRJuRCVbfeOO7llivbMj2vLJScM4UugV9zGOoARjl5DlAwd57uanfi8wRI1SXxU520zSjXribDWJ5U18GiKR5eVUy9-sMVpqCj9GjNAIt0ZiYbXf6ca/w640-h480/IMG_9219A.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">3. Some of the pond below has a thin layer of ice, you can see the Canada Geese are able to walk on the ice. The ducks were hanging out in a open water area of the pond. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRtE20qK8DZL4IsLV6EqXaJYlclEGY6us3MwDnH6U-yptXLJLrc0JAdWoX-ccAzFWDMSxYb39Yo3g_cqvLVTwtMJ6hZwh0eTyDuqCivcy_cVzQJtoevx4iGYSCg14zvUCZwlogGL6yyydamLpS6Tfutfhw9ndDtVC6Th-yY9QE8G6IUL6xQ4LH08bHWIQR/s2074/IMG_9226A.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1556" data-original-width="2074" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRtE20qK8DZL4IsLV6EqXaJYlclEGY6us3MwDnH6U-yptXLJLrc0JAdWoX-ccAzFWDMSxYb39Yo3g_cqvLVTwtMJ6hZwh0eTyDuqCivcy_cVzQJtoevx4iGYSCg14zvUCZwlogGL6yyydamLpS6Tfutfhw9ndDtVC6Th-yY9QE8G6IUL6xQ4LH08bHWIQR/w640-h480/IMG_9226A.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">4. A blurry view of a groups of ducks hanging out on the pond. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAKnNZENdiVLbjiGAIkcfDmYJDs7TwQtLEQ9QLuppYKJzgOwo8GeljIOwLa1DVJ-r2NtKlb1StcS9aa4QUgglkgufBr_FKmFA7RHjgkKszp2oguxCnTRDHA9K53aTyViD9qBf-Prd-RsPknafCPTN9_Er2Hi_uYOSnAUUKBBC3gprE2vOjMjeiq1aYGnd7/s2371/IMG_9229A.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1802" data-original-width="2371" height="486" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAKnNZENdiVLbjiGAIkcfDmYJDs7TwQtLEQ9QLuppYKJzgOwo8GeljIOwLa1DVJ-r2NtKlb1StcS9aa4QUgglkgufBr_FKmFA7RHjgkKszp2oguxCnTRDHA9K53aTyViD9qBf-Prd-RsPknafCPTN9_Er2Hi_uYOSnAUUKBBC3gprE2vOjMjeiq1aYGnd7/w640-h486/IMG_9229A.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">5. Below a nice variety of waterfowl, the male and female Buffleheads, the male and female Hooded Mergansers and an American Wigeon. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNUWLEeQ0SWqx4Ma2USIvxbcmLR7soRGNr_xRpQ_POjvVil_04LDX4GfzrOXqcmCgM3lRPh2kDe8lXEdxH2Hr424bfwQYUhalZBYc56J4WNEEjeImh17umOsVLpF9WWQptu5YytKPIvvW5ye4WXKE_I4BIsGfhed2wOhEcHXughl_MHRrM7ITGdaD3hZJX/s2074/IMG_9231A.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1556" data-original-width="2074" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNUWLEeQ0SWqx4Ma2USIvxbcmLR7soRGNr_xRpQ_POjvVil_04LDX4GfzrOXqcmCgM3lRPh2kDe8lXEdxH2Hr424bfwQYUhalZBYc56J4WNEEjeImh17umOsVLpF9WWQptu5YytKPIvvW5ye4WXKE_I4BIsGfhed2wOhEcHXughl_MHRrM7ITGdaD3hZJX/w640-h480/IMG_9231A.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">6. Who's hanging out with the American Wigeon below? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCTTL0jwylSeRhGO9dNFq-h0wBu1HHlcoZeUopZkqj67FIVkXILPw5gHpRYWEzNh5xM7Dsl7oOFc0fczHtAkshhi4bJEEbfUQP1s8DC7FHaOdg_k9RIRKD6GMf8QeBLMXbRuPH_hxludqlY-oWisE2t8jLE7tdy3NGrd1GUVPhvqSp5GFgRxzpo7XR1Dqy/s3402/IMG_9233A.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2365" data-original-width="3402" height="444" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCTTL0jwylSeRhGO9dNFq-h0wBu1HHlcoZeUopZkqj67FIVkXILPw5gHpRYWEzNh5xM7Dsl7oOFc0fczHtAkshhi4bJEEbfUQP1s8DC7FHaOdg_k9RIRKD6GMf8QeBLMXbRuPH_hxludqlY-oWisE2t8jLE7tdy3NGrd1GUVPhvqSp5GFgRxzpo7XR1Dqy/w640-h444/IMG_9233A.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">7. One of our first snows, was just a dusting. It melted quickly. Barely visible is a Blue Jay on the bottom left, eating some of the peanut nuggets. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifyEeo9K3WWC8l0k8zZs5v4ggxR1OujXrCVvCyvvVdN770ec-0W8zCfhvQE6P0ZaJ2rKIcbDLFMHfZ0jNSiAmp2u4XkSARKPEXMaJMVkfCI5i0RxuoFW1fSAMFYFRAS-jqCFZFIzu10QaEpULFNbMbECbBEi8wEQMco5H94PiFsdHffsHQM-gWOVqIWMFU/s1920/First%20real%20snow%20collage.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifyEeo9K3WWC8l0k8zZs5v4ggxR1OujXrCVvCyvvVdN770ec-0W8zCfhvQE6P0ZaJ2rKIcbDLFMHfZ0jNSiAmp2u4XkSARKPEXMaJMVkfCI5i0RxuoFW1fSAMFYFRAS-jqCFZFIzu10QaEpULFNbMbECbBEi8wEQMco5H94PiFsdHffsHQM-gWOVqIWMFU/w640-h640/First%20real%20snow%20collage.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">8. The male and female Cardinals are daily visitors to my deck. They enjoy the little peanut nuggets. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQhG9cL52knnlxwelWf4WBIlYkJRRauSNumWTQnIQmmjcGbsBF7cK7YgVi6tGeX9flZtPuAgl7zJ97_ez62OjMtNaQX99aWTuh-5Jph3aUtuI_tkki3HXeJ9nriigWANk7RlJqE-oZFFRK9bQ2MG33zGSiQTy2USlbsc-FB6thWfmvc-XoLwM6UFQ4E7EM/s2333/IMG_9245A.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1750" data-original-width="2333" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQhG9cL52knnlxwelWf4WBIlYkJRRauSNumWTQnIQmmjcGbsBF7cK7YgVi6tGeX9flZtPuAgl7zJ97_ez62OjMtNaQX99aWTuh-5Jph3aUtuI_tkki3HXeJ9nriigWANk7RlJqE-oZFFRK9bQ2MG33zGSiQTy2USlbsc-FB6thWfmvc-XoLwM6UFQ4E7EM/w640-h480/IMG_9245A.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">9. The Blue Jays are another common yard bird for me, they love the peanuts in the shell. But, they we eat anything I put out there.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ9sjsPwp5_cmqbyrGf_pNH6sJJkQjry7CKucf_ACbSfvPsq6nuI5l17J_SjA3aPdIJaQbXpr0nhWJkHz6U3AnG0nivDm3PSZSCPWWHC5-pYq4RikZwv0Vbl_qzP5zWSHvYrSqWjDfmqUXJd29Z8Mm30WoExNwNtimGJmsFT0QVDFs_q2A01QTgj5YD8CH/s2333/IMG_9275A.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1750" data-original-width="2333" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ9sjsPwp5_cmqbyrGf_pNH6sJJkQjry7CKucf_ACbSfvPsq6nuI5l17J_SjA3aPdIJaQbXpr0nhWJkHz6U3AnG0nivDm3PSZSCPWWHC5-pYq4RikZwv0Vbl_qzP5zWSHvYrSqWjDfmqUXJd29Z8Mm30WoExNwNtimGJmsFT0QVDFs_q2A01QTgj5YD8CH/w640-h480/IMG_9275A.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Thank you for sharing your critters and post!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Thanks to all my visitors and for your past and present comments. 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font-size: large;"><span>Wishing everyone a great day and a ha</span><span>ppy new week!</span> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"Happiness cannot be far behind a grateful heart and a peaceful mind."</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyxr1_q0oQNfDWarqCH8sXDpIkgsn127eHuWZcRlOkv-44kohvibn4I7W9v4F7JEAqlGrml5UMbivQMzgKFqKvQtiPEfR5flwA6JsIqTktNJOBDNkQplKyOz-91djCgsyL4aHykW0IliGJ6zjVU0CMwU7nUln4F5X3deYeuEl60wyEXw4_KXMSRsJsJKbq/s2074/IMG_3668A.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1556" data-original-width="2074" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyxr1_q0oQNfDWarqCH8sXDpIkgsn127eHuWZcRlOkv-44kohvibn4I7W9v4F7JEAqlGrml5UMbivQMzgKFqKvQtiPEfR5flwA6JsIqTktNJOBDNkQplKyOz-91djCgsyL4aHykW0IliGJ6zjVU0CMwU7nUln4F5X3deYeuEl60wyEXw4_KXMSRsJsJKbq/w640-h480/IMG_3668A.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"The best things in life are the people we love, the places we've seen and the memories we made along the way."</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">"We tak</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">e photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #202124;"></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Comments off, enjoy your day!</span></p>eileeninmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00070309645796725309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1264193705821192168.post-17391943096734729432024-01-27T00:00:00.116-05:002024-01-27T00:00:00.131-05:00Saturday's Critters # 528<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>Welcome to Saturday's Critters! </span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Hello and Happy Saturday!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> 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!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">A month behind, I am still trying to catch up. These images start with an early morning Christmas day walk to the lake. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">1. Our walk was on a fire road that leads to the lake and a view of the Bald Eagle's nest. We didn't see an Eagle on the nest but there was an adult Eagle in one tree and a juvenile across the lake. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRZXf3uyj52dONAKXWJaw0LM5xOzGZpVKtIlPmS30TeX0V7XYY-DtoAdgxxAAtypHNR6xkaDGjmN_dpQPmLgdRaaHL2yPq9dNzSZqAWiNoy4Yu1UUHk04LyF-TitW16wLyR1uiFfKOv2nS4RC1BlaCoIAXADeCngkrMINC-3HbeUader5H4X1m4bznirxD/s1920/Christmas%20morning%20at%20the%20lake%20collage.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRZXf3uyj52dONAKXWJaw0LM5xOzGZpVKtIlPmS30TeX0V7XYY-DtoAdgxxAAtypHNR6xkaDGjmN_dpQPmLgdRaaHL2yPq9dNzSZqAWiNoy4Yu1UUHk04LyF-TitW16wLyR1uiFfKOv2nS4RC1BlaCoIAXADeCngkrMINC-3HbeUader5H4X1m4bznirxD/w640-h640/Christmas%20morning%20at%20the%20lake%20collage.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">2. This Bald Eagle was calling to another Eagle that flew away from the tree. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip206JJG7Iokf8m0qalAudZGJFTaU4kYyXNo88qkZGqOEEXbedjtAnUYdMVinoMKLYr3E4DIE25loVm70JfJbtTm8YYPrWtepphK0NdH1ssksQ7r6jYKsg82OokWLQoh9_uSXyu0WR1TIA7k4dKPhOlDimI9IbmR8FZQKAsHfxz61aXii72W3Roog6pcNc/s2744/IMG_9097A.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2221" data-original-width="2744" height="518" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip206JJG7Iokf8m0qalAudZGJFTaU4kYyXNo88qkZGqOEEXbedjtAnUYdMVinoMKLYr3E4DIE25loVm70JfJbtTm8YYPrWtepphK0NdH1ssksQ7r6jYKsg82OokWLQoh9_uSXyu0WR1TIA7k4dKPhOlDimI9IbmR8FZQKAsHfxz61aXii72W3Roog6pcNc/w640-h518/IMG_9097A.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">3. Dec 29th, our walk was to our back part of the lake. We were happy to see a large flock of Canada Geese and 20-30 Common Mergansers. We were a distance away and the Mergansers were still spooked and flew further across the lake. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSWrX9_MZAyBO5-z6MM7n5tMsaxCZ7WeYpJfb8Cn3yjcd6tm4EOBVCeHXfpcTt4XaZExQPcAozmodhgXjBFCOjURUjGAKiLliHTrUR-Xx-SdUV_nz-Zg5yhH1eqWNKpgoCGYidRIh6_Pa2nh-1NAHh-6MhsraGEvASLOn7DYNhQuHk0Fq3BriCazW33VzD/s1920/Geese_Mergansers%20collage.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSWrX9_MZAyBO5-z6MM7n5tMsaxCZ7WeYpJfb8Cn3yjcd6tm4EOBVCeHXfpcTt4XaZExQPcAozmodhgXjBFCOjURUjGAKiLliHTrUR-Xx-SdUV_nz-Zg5yhH1eqWNKpgoCGYidRIh6_Pa2nh-1NAHh-6MhsraGEvASLOn7DYNhQuHk0Fq3BriCazW33VzD/w640-h640/Geese_Mergansers%20collage.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Below is one male Common Merganser with three females. The male has more white on it's body and a green head. I cropped this photo, I wish it was a clearer photo they were a good distance away. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrnZgOuDZC2y24ysxBxkwVbjvFq_TjuqT2XYqklutj0qkaqWg13bfExuZEU5-0Uw-YF85fX06cr0TKVEokHrjTn5HA99c50MgISvHd5IZJYOCrW7vZstw9WGuzMHXqNQtRaPgQtRu140L7SLjCGuoyLAKSSdKxvo-2pAQ-wtuzbUOy8WkaXFtYx6RYhdmm/s3470/IMG_9152A.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2353" data-original-width="3470" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrnZgOuDZC2y24ysxBxkwVbjvFq_TjuqT2XYqklutj0qkaqWg13bfExuZEU5-0Uw-YF85fX06cr0TKVEokHrjTn5HA99c50MgISvHd5IZJYOCrW7vZstw9WGuzMHXqNQtRaPgQtRu140L7SLjCGuoyLAKSSdKxvo-2pAQ-wtuzbUOy8WkaXFtYx6RYhdmm/w640-h434/IMG_9152A.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">4. Just a few of the Canada Geese seen at the lake.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4oakkblFQhw1k-DHeAbckMu9A-XPV4d8UjCZ_eAcUVgNhkuUW7MoDRthW7qvqFuS5rbcC1VUrSNs8bRz-rjUEnYG75YQm2mhphWeUBfcmNI334phZn9X4T8YAkRb-veWKWiSZrT1byd7bA6LpFq8hlRcfRfptIfMcAeHV6kuKmhAsGpgSsKRHx_TSMsvi/s2074/IMG_9137A.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1556" data-original-width="2074" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4oakkblFQhw1k-DHeAbckMu9A-XPV4d8UjCZ_eAcUVgNhkuUW7MoDRthW7qvqFuS5rbcC1VUrSNs8bRz-rjUEnYG75YQm2mhphWeUBfcmNI334phZn9X4T8YAkRb-veWKWiSZrT1byd7bA6LpFq8hlRcfRfptIfMcAeHV6kuKmhAsGpgSsKRHx_TSMsvi/w640-h480/IMG_9137A.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">5. Along the fire road we watched a flock of Eastern Bluebirds, I was surprised to see a large group hanging out together. Below are the Male Bluebird on the left and the female is one the right. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP3N1lDHMRMkHm6fw39qcmem0tyLDwnG9xqU2MK796w9Tqk7Y96nCQG2YTtxvLcJMysl-v8evckGzZbZiG0bH17pwCOFceOf-ElkmDOCFnMMXGPIo7kGREGocjIVp53YdNLnoLoOvgoQ1AbWEyrvP_kRuw5eqI4N_CE_XY5P655Et3O6LgscczCSmeOZkq/s1920/Bluebird%20collage.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP3N1lDHMRMkHm6fw39qcmem0tyLDwnG9xqU2MK796w9Tqk7Y96nCQG2YTtxvLcJMysl-v8evckGzZbZiG0bH17pwCOFceOf-ElkmDOCFnMMXGPIo7kGREGocjIVp53YdNLnoLoOvgoQ1AbWEyrvP_kRuw5eqI4N_CE_XY5P655Et3O6LgscczCSmeOZkq/w640-h640/Bluebird%20collage.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">6. On New Year's day I like to record the first bird I see, it was the Blue Jay. After putting out some peanut nuggets on the deck railing, the Blue Jays were the first bird I saw along with the Dark-eyed Junco, Tufted Titmouse and the White-throated Sparrows.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizHiilUx8bWozwCg5uhxGpTA7X1f0C7x2G_KPfqJn9IY0ToPDMVrur8b-HyKCeXmb6vjpP8d4qraAKn3DTOSEMz5-DcHl-_BFHoDvr534gnPVJYjXVdAIClqxKexZlkpmwNnvvBlDrqVWY3uFIgr5I_MNpuIlXAmwbAuZxnYyfKQco-s2A0wF2KZWIoCdW/s1920/New%20Year%20Day%20Blue%20Jay%20collage.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizHiilUx8bWozwCg5uhxGpTA7X1f0C7x2G_KPfqJn9IY0ToPDMVrur8b-HyKCeXmb6vjpP8d4qraAKn3DTOSEMz5-DcHl-_BFHoDvr534gnPVJYjXVdAIClqxKexZlkpmwNnvvBlDrqVWY3uFIgr5I_MNpuIlXAmwbAuZxnYyfKQco-s2A0wF2KZWIoCdW/w640-h640/New%20Year%20Day%20Blue%20Jay%20collage.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">7. Jan 2nd, our walk to the front part of the lake. We saw 3 Bald Eagles, 2 in flight and one sitting in a tree. A big flock of Robins were seen along the fire road. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRdvD_x4WEMiCYSLO8FPwRCDLR2BC1Wq26sLyu2nUpTLW9IwS5tvH2BkSC5dSUW6xcuhDwIFQaY_qXbjEPeYba_OmxJ32K-VvO215LJ6gkwbvgixTlhgfo0YsW35FvDToRP9axdFErgNlzhGxhCKqpYWODTR1HdeMTArJN0BnC8-21gtRFWbH6mSFwzmh8/s1920/Prettyboy%20collage.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRdvD_x4WEMiCYSLO8FPwRCDLR2BC1Wq26sLyu2nUpTLW9IwS5tvH2BkSC5dSUW6xcuhDwIFQaY_qXbjEPeYba_OmxJ32K-VvO215LJ6gkwbvgixTlhgfo0YsW35FvDToRP9axdFErgNlzhGxhCKqpYWODTR1HdeMTArJN0BnC8-21gtRFWbH6mSFwzmh8/w640-h640/Prettyboy%20collage.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">8. I was able to snap a few photos of the Robins, they were flying back and forth across the fire road as walked close. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQwOs__I8lGmu_ul0JxKHeKcpwjxnOziWkTiyZqkQQ2KMmDFCeEz8Y1tG3Hy0-tb53hxX1UN3h0bNjnc8eUcSbeAJZjaFsxnKqCDuETs9GWn2IvZ6TvuYhI0ixstY0_o3C86NbTEPdvGJShBytn3BpVTykFF6Kp9YjdkLVSuGu1-EPhbfU61bsED16Vc8G/s1920/Robin%20collage.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQwOs__I8lGmu_ul0JxKHeKcpwjxnOziWkTiyZqkQQ2KMmDFCeEz8Y1tG3Hy0-tb53hxX1UN3h0bNjnc8eUcSbeAJZjaFsxnKqCDuETs9GWn2IvZ6TvuYhI0ixstY0_o3C86NbTEPdvGJShBytn3BpVTykFF6Kp9YjdkLVSuGu1-EPhbfU61bsED16Vc8G/w640-h640/Robin%20collage.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Jan 24th, was our grandson Mason's 2nd birthday, we were happy to be there to celebrate on the actual day.</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1umUo2KtzowXVx_SBxR4v1G3gtixdSUOiKS9wbvK-y26IOrYRH4PjoIvaz6zvSj_tr4_GEkZLMXVEx3xqEpOLuV472X8ZWEcl_OH2rgGQcAViSU9GvtJPzou1lykK5DnAwKvJ5jNs8_kJBrxH5Jopx7hysjdLLGp6m7GXOh0X3Z0r0xOJt1KGZIsknQxQ/s1920/Mason's%202nd%20bday.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1umUo2KtzowXVx_SBxR4v1G3gtixdSUOiKS9wbvK-y26IOrYRH4PjoIvaz6zvSj_tr4_GEkZLMXVEx3xqEpOLuV472X8ZWEcl_OH2rgGQcAViSU9GvtJPzou1lykK5DnAwKvJ5jNs8_kJBrxH5Jopx7hysjdLLGp6m7GXOh0X3Z0r0xOJt1KGZIsknQxQ/s320/Mason's%202nd%20bday.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Here is a Saturday's Critters badge if you would like to add it to your post.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfFIBONHQwJ87u0RY8RIWm61AkqxG4Scy163ZuZJ1o52OlD_4h74QqdR-uctFvLs5rt_p5TbVzfhdzCDt38VT3_XgsnkFzG3Cw2vdynXH32WS6YQ6i1VBwgq3WaC7sA3dFjMoEwJJGH_keZQccItBQiP0nn7LnWvvBqyTRQeSCIHiluMvIbpWBxrGpkrXP/s324/saturdays-critters.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="235" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfFIBONHQwJ87u0RY8RIWm61AkqxG4Scy163ZuZJ1o52OlD_4h74QqdR-uctFvLs5rt_p5TbVzfhdzCDt38VT3_XgsnkFzG3Cw2vdynXH32WS6YQ6i1VBwgq3WaC7sA3dFjMoEwJJGH_keZQccItBQiP0nn7LnWvvBqyTRQeSCIHiluMvIbpWBxrGpkrXP/s320/saturdays-critters.jpg" width="232" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Thank you for sharing your critters and post!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">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.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Here is my linky:</span></p><script src="//www.blenza.com/linkies/easylink.php?owner=EileeninMd&postid=31Dec2023&meme=12669" type="text/javascript"></script><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I am linking up to Heidrun's <a href="https://happy-hour-with-picts.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Mosaic Monday </a> I hope you can stop by and visit Heidrun and check out the Mosaic Monday post.</span></p>eileeninmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00070309645796725309noreply@blogger.com115tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1264193705821192168.post-7245146694821533832024-01-22T00:00:00.018-05:002024-01-22T00:00:00.135-05:00Happy Monday! <p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span>Wishing everyone a great day and a ha</span><span>ppy new week!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>"Kindness is choosing love over hate, light over darkness, compassion over judgement."</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWdvnCM9GYmb3XwGKd1QslJb70aTI4XOrLlCOnhTr4V5nZuwoiUKEhyphenhyphenEmbtE2d4TRPEyUU5Txhz9nzeLwTQYVTKchtk4swPkJVofU6iqKVuavsBvpeaDl_5AvExLEyqoSetKBpgVGR5MBpjf1OCFy_sXEQtJRi2aeKVzzfsyBPg3uL6tz8o0FqCLl2FV0h/s1613/IMG_3065A.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1210" data-original-width="1613" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWdvnCM9GYmb3XwGKd1QslJb70aTI4XOrLlCOnhTr4V5nZuwoiUKEhyphenhyphenEmbtE2d4TRPEyUU5Txhz9nzeLwTQYVTKchtk4swPkJVofU6iqKVuavsBvpeaDl_5AvExLEyqoSetKBpgVGR5MBpjf1OCFy_sXEQtJRi2aeKVzzfsyBPg3uL6tz8o0FqCLl2FV0h/w640-h480/IMG_3065A.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b>"Spread a little kindness wherever you go."</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> <span>"We tak</span><span>e photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #202124;"></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Comments off, enjoy your day!</span></p>eileeninmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00070309645796725309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1264193705821192168.post-16926587279075796462024-01-20T00:00:00.103-05:002024-01-20T00:00:00.154-05:00Saturday's Critters # 527<p><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>Welcome to Saturday's Critters! </span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Hello and Happy Saturday!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> 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!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">These photos are from our morning visit to the Edwin Forsythe NWR on day two of our little getaway to Atlantic City, New Jersey</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">1. Resting in the grass below are some Northern Pintails and below photos are a mixed of Pintails and Hooded Mergansers and a large group of Dunlins.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuC8Vq-D2wL2MDMNyQBlI29OszC0ZOH6KI4Ef68KDvI_XGGoJjfp9WHiPmXFgdHGJTPE9XcLEEqsrupgybF7o2C6No3ZCcQSxouk5YFE8E9n8AM5dEZeh9PxVAYRS9zh42noHBN5Lnoc-M_-eoaDiGSB8e-5KLBpISivSevTJxZF6mcb48hbDvmJUf6Oui/s1920/wildlife%20refuge%20collage.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuC8Vq-D2wL2MDMNyQBlI29OszC0ZOH6KI4Ef68KDvI_XGGoJjfp9WHiPmXFgdHGJTPE9XcLEEqsrupgybF7o2C6No3ZCcQSxouk5YFE8E9n8AM5dEZeh9PxVAYRS9zh42noHBN5Lnoc-M_-eoaDiGSB8e-5KLBpISivSevTJxZF6mcb48hbDvmJUf6Oui/w640-h640/wildlife%20refuge%20collage.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Below are a Northern Pintail, male and female Hooded Mergansers. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg45Iwc32M5SBelLFUOeV575muetnD0zfxGbNei8C0J-74Y82RBcYjti1XmO_Zk-RoZ8FEk73GF6su_wUB7GPWK2Q-q_vC0a8PNQRFDV7KfMjT7JBwDpfxoYitiJY-lIlyDJfV3iaEjTsKx_UH8n6NhctjzBrXYJbv_FlivCStDQ8w3soIOQ-qKxVgWH1vi/s3991/IMG_8984A.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3126" data-original-width="3991" height="502" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg45Iwc32M5SBelLFUOeV575muetnD0zfxGbNei8C0J-74Y82RBcYjti1XmO_Zk-RoZ8FEk73GF6su_wUB7GPWK2Q-q_vC0a8PNQRFDV7KfMjT7JBwDpfxoYitiJY-lIlyDJfV3iaEjTsKx_UH8n6NhctjzBrXYJbv_FlivCStDQ8w3soIOQ-qKxVgWH1vi/w640-h502/IMG_8984A.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Three Snow Geese floating in the water foraging for food.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioqX4ZBsHauBXyU1n5DYXX_tWlS8r_kMYlJ7ZlBfhyphenhyphena6Nc4hCI5Ftife6eLRGsBpCgl9TD213MmjP6bnXhJ6njQq1Z_eESmoPSu2YyidlP3frGUl-oi8DEnqRjhomDBYp_4U2Y9ZA-RTlWN_0j-ueUg_m2CV2p-qruST86HBwxfci6_oVKfF2IuI_ZMX5t/s4133/IMG_8994A.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2184" data-original-width="4133" height="338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioqX4ZBsHauBXyU1n5DYXX_tWlS8r_kMYlJ7ZlBfhyphenhyphena6Nc4hCI5Ftife6eLRGsBpCgl9TD213MmjP6bnXhJ6njQq1Z_eESmoPSu2YyidlP3frGUl-oi8DEnqRjhomDBYp_4U2Y9ZA-RTlWN_0j-ueUg_m2CV2p-qruST86HBwxfci6_oVKfF2IuI_ZMX5t/w640-h338/IMG_8994A.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Dunlins and gulls</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPACE04vnzrgknFTVj1UDkwgCTNJKMcR_Xu9FOFKDfnhB2fofmUFUalyI9EW9fz05Jk7aeD4z7TLSGm2bDRI6v9D0tJ1z28_xdElRdxt637hk6mU88MvaJVA3evTYVyxQ00G2DrzRM1L43RbE4p9cUQJk4MhBALEQlXrgqrD-X4K8LyQm9Vrm938It0Lxn/s1920/Dunlin%20and%20gulls%20collage.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPACE04vnzrgknFTVj1UDkwgCTNJKMcR_Xu9FOFKDfnhB2fofmUFUalyI9EW9fz05Jk7aeD4z7TLSGm2bDRI6v9D0tJ1z28_xdElRdxt637hk6mU88MvaJVA3evTYVyxQ00G2DrzRM1L43RbE4p9cUQJk4MhBALEQlXrgqrD-X4K8LyQm9Vrm938It0Lxn/w640-h640/Dunlin%20and%20gulls%20collage.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Lots of waterfowl and shorebirds hanging out at this one pool area. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgABwH5tHyrdiXWb5reqxA0WOJVN1owaO68JO_mKHoxGt_y8Bwh1IbXi6mS_VzpCWnjb4mU5WkEid7s2Bl2ascAIdSjjdvNSRMHXYdWZcK99b788Dw4vQDSV8NFa3kKDSkAtgz_EKWz9s1WhXL9sQ-m54UYRtoFERQCSwLkI4WKEkUMUkHRrvUTucY3aWD6/s2074/IMG_9013A.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1556" data-original-width="2074" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgABwH5tHyrdiXWb5reqxA0WOJVN1owaO68JO_mKHoxGt_y8Bwh1IbXi6mS_VzpCWnjb4mU5WkEid7s2Bl2ascAIdSjjdvNSRMHXYdWZcK99b788Dw4vQDSV8NFa3kKDSkAtgz_EKWz9s1WhXL9sQ-m54UYRtoFERQCSwLkI4WKEkUMUkHRrvUTucY3aWD6/w640-h480/IMG_9013A.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I am guessing at the bird id below , the Dunlins have been listed in high numbers at this wildlife refuge.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikAQIs2eoZHs9eRW4c2D9aIzT2Q4j9504GCU-lmY_FvlXzNAaVp76OcTXt0cczdGptnCn23tVRA1mDbO6waIgabz57ELGY3snIofEQsHTrUBcrwrBjiF0Tgr_uuscLGRPMsKmdA7XdJWi_HmXdVHyXK5C6zIdx0Rssa8ccHP5UqGM9vPp2jSkS0y2yNBTv/s5091/IMG_9024A.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2640" data-original-width="5091" height="332" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikAQIs2eoZHs9eRW4c2D9aIzT2Q4j9504GCU-lmY_FvlXzNAaVp76OcTXt0cczdGptnCn23tVRA1mDbO6waIgabz57ELGY3snIofEQsHTrUBcrwrBjiF0Tgr_uuscLGRPMsKmdA7XdJWi_HmXdVHyXK5C6zIdx0Rssa8ccHP5UqGM9vPp2jSkS0y2yNBTv/w640-h332/IMG_9024A.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The Snow Geese were seen flying in large groups all around the wildlife refuge.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">There were 3 juvenile Black-crowned Night Herons hanging out below.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfBYs4sRrb_8p4kqNZIW_XDWsYPjU6N5VO1iD6-ZFhe3d5UYCAjf6izuREV_Sl_YBhcyT-tT0YtOrGTeZrgNMVboEOAaI70IlNtkKtzfvuZPgpm8WQMHDbCzqGOgyrXW1ZHSYorvBxBzqaf9yvZTVFV1izZlSR_Zwf0A10I9UrsURjy02XblXvHngM1kCo/s1920/Night%20Heron%20collage.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfBYs4sRrb_8p4kqNZIW_XDWsYPjU6N5VO1iD6-ZFhe3d5UYCAjf6izuREV_Sl_YBhcyT-tT0YtOrGTeZrgNMVboEOAaI70IlNtkKtzfvuZPgpm8WQMHDbCzqGOgyrXW1ZHSYorvBxBzqaf9yvZTVFV1izZlSR_Zwf0A10I9UrsURjy02XblXvHngM1kCo/w640-h640/Night%20Heron%20collage.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Can you find the 3 Black-crowned Night Herons below?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">A pretty Great Egret seen near the Great Blue Heron. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj21hhdtTOztDwq0oU5pXl5ey7A1pAnhi2J_BamSdts8XAbzoLSq_j43N_zoaAvR3_8hKgkaOg7LIQrYJfZJeURqbaiFSvzwPmVP_-7Z-7kAHZVPrRWV2KJKnQI0XsBg6YbpaNmyK7_e1crHnkCljl2slWu7YQ0R5tsFr-tgArrnsozgpN4wT3deP3UC-Zz/s2074/IMG_9070A.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1556" data-original-width="2074" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj21hhdtTOztDwq0oU5pXl5ey7A1pAnhi2J_BamSdts8XAbzoLSq_j43N_zoaAvR3_8hKgkaOg7LIQrYJfZJeURqbaiFSvzwPmVP_-7Z-7kAHZVPrRWV2KJKnQI0XsBg6YbpaNmyK7_e1crHnkCljl2slWu7YQ0R5tsFr-tgArrnsozgpN4wT3deP3UC-Zz/w640-h480/IMG_9070A.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">This is the end of our visit to Edwin B Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in New Jersey. It is a great refuge to see the winter ducks, snow geese and shorebirds. </span></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">Here is a Saturday's Critters badge if you would like to add it to your post.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDAbJjPr0LUeOvU3ZkpJR29uPd-mcj0YTA9D924NTtszqjqjWG4lDe_1FfrBqyhRJPHlUVpu3D0whUhPpWgeEjCrXv6zrEQmdxOWz7KdVQnimT-o9fZV0lnVRxRcv4ZdovtRDQPxmYGEWUgTWz_eleeYIgD3m2W2UC_GTeg8T2eAyGDSsZdiGcbJUbZkfy/s324/saturdays-critters.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="235" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDAbJjPr0LUeOvU3ZkpJR29uPd-mcj0YTA9D924NTtszqjqjWG4lDe_1FfrBqyhRJPHlUVpu3D0whUhPpWgeEjCrXv6zrEQmdxOWz7KdVQnimT-o9fZV0lnVRxRcv4ZdovtRDQPxmYGEWUgTWz_eleeYIgD3m2W2UC_GTeg8T2eAyGDSsZdiGcbJUbZkfy/s320/saturdays-critters.jpg" width="232" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Thank you for sharing your critters and post!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">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. 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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! Here is a Saturday's Critters badge if you would like to add it to your post.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span>Dec 12-13th we were on the road again, just one night in Atlantic City NJ and 2 visits to the Edwin B. Forsythe wildlife refuge. </span>This wildlife refuge is a great place to visit in the winter, to see all the winter ducks and the Snow Geese. My photos were taken from the car while driving on the wildlife drive. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">1. Dec 12th, we arrived mid day to find the visitor center was closed but the wildlife drive is open. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiArUndkTJFzro4sac34ZVOpfDeBy_eJgxJAWpmyVA-Pg7aq499HnNWA-YfmWG0TEXnoPIha40vQUq9JYiIimiJdyPjXtk4jn9hjNwnKcWasV3S5NxfwiqdPZPcxZrErygJvMbRZe88Wyy_WumzAZ-sQPKAq56IW5dxasulAfdaI5UXGAlO388K1nviFbz8/s1613/IMG_3053A.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1210" data-original-width="1613" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiArUndkTJFzro4sac34ZVOpfDeBy_eJgxJAWpmyVA-Pg7aq499HnNWA-YfmWG0TEXnoPIha40vQUq9JYiIimiJdyPjXtk4jn9hjNwnKcWasV3S5NxfwiqdPZPcxZrErygJvMbRZe88Wyy_WumzAZ-sQPKAq56IW5dxasulAfdaI5UXGAlO388K1nviFbz8/w640-h480/IMG_3053A.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">A view from the wildlife drive and across the bay you can see the Atlantic City hotels and casinos. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMUcZtadggxSAkfJS_CHRy_MUtx-7D68dq1UaRUZGwkCJsxZcn7psU202NNiQ96VkgA01Udmj3qU4FwcrUO814dak3dUnDeyKHZ3-znC9waaaVPw_aDwhcuUn4ybkLBn0e9l81CAeqZaZXxQaFbb5dVqbOcjaOfj1ctrZC_alXz2qk05rtTTEKgW0iQSXV/s4721/IMG_8947A.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2669" data-original-width="4721" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMUcZtadggxSAkfJS_CHRy_MUtx-7D68dq1UaRUZGwkCJsxZcn7psU202NNiQ96VkgA01Udmj3qU4FwcrUO814dak3dUnDeyKHZ3-znC9waaaVPw_aDwhcuUn4ybkLBn0e9l81CAeqZaZXxQaFbb5dVqbOcjaOfj1ctrZC_alXz2qk05rtTTEKgW0iQSXV/w640-h362/IMG_8947A.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">2. Below various ducks we saw were the Green-winged Teal, the Northern Shoveler and the Northern Pintail. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmpGOiAwhIXovrmt0vcMAGuNfkURgcR6Ab7nQawGrgbwSQtf0-2d8u25UQLstCNnUxibkOgTGbD8iAqfSzWkinzV3-FAF-kxZdxJTuHlQ3qQ6PmxyEYu2MrCqcm-cDZs9HZOuGgPC3_olJxHJnR1MzKR49qf-VDd2wfSrxPjN4nSnwxIUapoG-gIZPsawd/s1920/Variou%20ducks%20%20Edwin%20Forsythe%20NWR.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmpGOiAwhIXovrmt0vcMAGuNfkURgcR6Ab7nQawGrgbwSQtf0-2d8u25UQLstCNnUxibkOgTGbD8iAqfSzWkinzV3-FAF-kxZdxJTuHlQ3qQ6PmxyEYu2MrCqcm-cDZs9HZOuGgPC3_olJxHJnR1MzKR49qf-VDd2wfSrxPjN4nSnwxIUapoG-gIZPsawd/w640-h640/Variou%20ducks%20%20Edwin%20Forsythe%20NWR.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">3. Near the beginning of the wildlife drive, I had a great view of the American Bittern. If only it stayed to pose for my photo, it turned tail and hid in the grasses. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPYYrIQSeSyyDqmcROtj0EYtm2DGNxzq-vfQH1bBNid3wpwG5oNduhRfGXtUUjK8Ag_XM241n2Zl4VBwLBIH71pEtzVmsWxuYfVZFKqCObMVSJG1MPJqIwBOsdQpYh90u8vA-78DGSI8UuPI2KThgxChae6VDPNHokvOnCLMdDpDXuIAn27kBC8NeUD1JO/s1632/IMG_8797A.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="1632" height="592" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPYYrIQSeSyyDqmcROtj0EYtm2DGNxzq-vfQH1bBNid3wpwG5oNduhRfGXtUUjK8Ag_XM241n2Zl4VBwLBIH71pEtzVmsWxuYfVZFKqCObMVSJG1MPJqIwBOsdQpYh90u8vA-78DGSI8UuPI2KThgxChae6VDPNHokvOnCLMdDpDXuIAn27kBC8NeUD1JO/w640-h592/IMG_8797A.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">4. The Hooded Mergansers were seen in big groups at times along the drive. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIL1ugDik9KUd5k9OBqI1Itk38RGbDMR7hwy53UUNM50Y6fdPtfv3l4DhIDmvFAt3Qmg3ynIcNDDq-ZD7cwSDupTc9AFlC6fz9tXViwQ6okVDRiFGoEgHyf2ZQ6EwAfYe4-xi2yBkobvB3U1YMpyfglAaAdzdvTFA0ZcDKBFFBXfptcLqIT9oW-yhuFE-8/s2217/IMG_8807A.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1311" data-original-width="2217" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIL1ugDik9KUd5k9OBqI1Itk38RGbDMR7hwy53UUNM50Y6fdPtfv3l4DhIDmvFAt3Qmg3ynIcNDDq-ZD7cwSDupTc9AFlC6fz9tXViwQ6okVDRiFGoEgHyf2ZQ6EwAfYe4-xi2yBkobvB3U1YMpyfglAaAdzdvTFA0ZcDKBFFBXfptcLqIT9oW-yhuFE-8/w640-h378/IMG_8807A.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">5. We saw lots of female Buffleheads and only a few shy male Buffleheads. </span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCtTKV4mIX2adlef_39ntyVkNXPApWF7mRkFAyDaNLNcAAbdO7Fkd2zjc4QY9tc0R22Zw08Yqj5Q-mNr7C9rzDs0WcG1IJp-3Uqe8GlhYSUM04XgziTeJFe43eUs6Qk4OwpYn0ZiWeshG9C70jpamLbfd3-pM2fL30iVA7EMkpjBpGT1wQ3T7b4ecwx9_H/s2895/IMG_8876A.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2236" data-original-width="2895" height="494" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCtTKV4mIX2adlef_39ntyVkNXPApWF7mRkFAyDaNLNcAAbdO7Fkd2zjc4QY9tc0R22Zw08Yqj5Q-mNr7C9rzDs0WcG1IJp-3Uqe8GlhYSUM04XgziTeJFe43eUs6Qk4OwpYn0ZiWeshG9C70jpamLbfd3-pM2fL30iVA7EMkpjBpGT1wQ3T7b4ecwx9_H/w640-h494/IMG_8876A.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">6. The Ruddy Ducks look cute with their stiff tail feathers. </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiunETrHUgH6manN2OBnwFKCo_d9O_96D0HGj4A4BIfHHcHcHiX_kYa5LSrJRUA9nbME9TQMXk4WYWBu1sodUtSHZ3fwoaNBbbhPQKsy7u1_teJ40RBCisBFE3Tjwl-Qwb3_rKgoBnnu8YfLcq32ACimVCOJUhK0mgM_QXOPQ-5TLLAeKeUX465YX5daXBS/s4557/IMG_8898A.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3317" data-original-width="4557" height="466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiunETrHUgH6manN2OBnwFKCo_d9O_96D0HGj4A4BIfHHcHcHiX_kYa5LSrJRUA9nbME9TQMXk4WYWBu1sodUtSHZ3fwoaNBbbhPQKsy7u1_teJ40RBCisBFE3Tjwl-Qwb3_rKgoBnnu8YfLcq32ACimVCOJUhK0mgM_QXOPQ-5TLLAeKeUX465YX5daXBS/w640-h466/IMG_8898A.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">7. The American Black Ducks are a common sight to see at this wildlife refuge. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyKqdsHnPJTeLmR6rxJdlXVNY9Bcvr14l-EpxGQTdGRJ-Omu0ebD5QSZeFjW5wrcTmiu5VyAalQu53l-iaWD_HzlcWH-zC6Aha_kHBLgXCwspJcws2X9O4vxStItedxIBUyZ6mBq9Tu0evIQpmBjrCkuOqcpYYf4sX4MWC-9lt-0sihZT8NOFkWnifRW3o/s1920/American%20Black%20Ducks%20%20Edwin%20Forsythe%20NWR.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyKqdsHnPJTeLmR6rxJdlXVNY9Bcvr14l-EpxGQTdGRJ-Omu0ebD5QSZeFjW5wrcTmiu5VyAalQu53l-iaWD_HzlcWH-zC6Aha_kHBLgXCwspJcws2X9O4vxStItedxIBUyZ6mBq9Tu0evIQpmBjrCkuOqcpYYf4sX4MWC-9lt-0sihZT8NOFkWnifRW3o/w640-h640/American%20Black%20Ducks%20%20Edwin%20Forsythe%20NWR.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">8. Below a Great Blue Heron hanging out with a Great Egret. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8cqk5rVwHHJxvOPdbBd2Ynt6SKVyz4oBR8OIpYE3ywYSXMZBcHAEfELf0VbiuLx8WnjnJc4JfuxLBJ9hyphenhyphenbZwJJkTp_l9mOdwqV5s3HYOOAsRgCmzxMEwkVuGHsHp1EY-QoDUg2XG1DsR7kBBtwQYA3U-uBp0CiMwBheRDrQ4OVu4tnduC6ARiCR4ybgGv/s2744/IMG_8917A.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2208" data-original-width="2744" height="514" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8cqk5rVwHHJxvOPdbBd2Ynt6SKVyz4oBR8OIpYE3ywYSXMZBcHAEfELf0VbiuLx8WnjnJc4JfuxLBJ9hyphenhyphenbZwJJkTp_l9mOdwqV5s3HYOOAsRgCmzxMEwkVuGHsHp1EY-QoDUg2XG1DsR7kBBtwQYA3U-uBp0CiMwBheRDrQ4OVu4tnduC6ARiCR4ybgGv/w640-h514/IMG_8917A.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">9. The Canada Geese seemed to be happy standing on the wildlife drive, I hope they stay safe with the cars riding by. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4ekxZMbMl5qf7zCiEHxDUK9drU9wZLTyZ8ec4g5IutdQH7g7G0HjWKD3QvNLeNST0POHLryXpIppFbhyphenhyphengs_3eCZbk7c3JU9s5ddKi4_G4ij-hRsxSCRidE7MTFfF4AsUOsTkHnyIcJtfJQ25T73e-FeoVG_ICJggjucCamn5HhezcQDQB65lfUtIFSc73/s2074/IMG_8843A.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1556" data-original-width="2074" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4ekxZMbMl5qf7zCiEHxDUK9drU9wZLTyZ8ec4g5IutdQH7g7G0HjWKD3QvNLeNST0POHLryXpIppFbhyphenhyphengs_3eCZbk7c3JU9s5ddKi4_G4ij-hRsxSCRidE7MTFfF4AsUOsTkHnyIcJtfJQ25T73e-FeoVG_ICJggjucCamn5HhezcQDQB65lfUtIFSc73/w640-h480/IMG_8843A.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">10. We saw a few Mute Swans, they looked like they did not want to be disturbed. </span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTWvqYVTV7zL54UnKeHPZK6V-2jclvfOX9tmvshwOTy1JMPKBFMCvellGh62q5yJqMSb6XlsxMXRdwGYK2Vuml94ob-3OfHMW-hlCYp-cHAYyYu9yGI2gqVWp4-Ad6LHa5PHlzd9SU74SFwOvw-0MIkJ09Q0w7gnab2XVNsdsrp6NHB7TAvcLYQgbovv3b/s2074/IMG_8939A.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1556" data-original-width="2074" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTWvqYVTV7zL54UnKeHPZK6V-2jclvfOX9tmvshwOTy1JMPKBFMCvellGh62q5yJqMSb6XlsxMXRdwGYK2Vuml94ob-3OfHMW-hlCYp-cHAYyYu9yGI2gqVWp4-Ad6LHa5PHlzd9SU74SFwOvw-0MIkJ09Q0w7gnab2XVNsdsrp6NHB7TAvcLYQgbovv3b/w640-h480/IMG_8939A.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">11. The Snow Geese arrive in the winter months in large flocks. They are fun to watch when something upsets them and they all take off making lots of noise only to fly around and land again on the ground or in the water.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNu4paOv0R2MMXwiIBST33ioIbf_Pk-dxm_WK3ln0AKAEuVJ3RW0JNGOQXLU47790MUoJXqG8ntXkap_J9Wqk2-0LjSD1YYffzdjHRPfHWZBhKVtOYQqYh4t42HAgijv2pTqybEPExtIJRpHbFsN6Q_L3VTNcFfRLAjAAf_dQcDN5poiuwrcS1QA3yXYPF/s1920/Snow%20Geese%20Edwin%20Forsythe%20NWR.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNu4paOv0R2MMXwiIBST33ioIbf_Pk-dxm_WK3ln0AKAEuVJ3RW0JNGOQXLU47790MUoJXqG8ntXkap_J9Wqk2-0LjSD1YYffzdjHRPfHWZBhKVtOYQqYh4t42HAgijv2pTqybEPExtIJRpHbFsN6Q_L3VTNcFfRLAjAAf_dQcDN5poiuwrcS1QA3yXYPF/w640-h640/Snow%20Geese%20Edwin%20Forsythe%20NWR.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">12. One lone Snow Geese was looking for food in the grasses along the drive. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwWC09e0ZYH2AERwtK07lCIJfbyPO2UlJdl7Vus9_4BLaLILieVfd-nybgjNofdd-LFJ4r5fbagzALYLysM1NQlq3okorP8qkgkRuWyUpIPSQx4WGV_-LUNHY51J6BTq244Mi4Maa08eqLSdvbTo5WRVJ9in59ev-lJwez9EkiBx7Msp25q7qDhwIbzg5G/s2333/IMG_8973A.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1750" data-original-width="2333" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwWC09e0ZYH2AERwtK07lCIJfbyPO2UlJdl7Vus9_4BLaLILieVfd-nybgjNofdd-LFJ4r5fbagzALYLysM1NQlq3okorP8qkgkRuWyUpIPSQx4WGV_-LUNHY51J6BTq244Mi4Maa08eqLSdvbTo5WRVJ9in59ev-lJwez9EkiBx7Msp25q7qDhwIbzg5G/w640-h480/IMG_8973A.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I hope you enjoyed this visit to the wildlife refuge. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Thank you for sharing your critters and post!</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQTk0rdfzTxtg-UkBpuf5K9a3s9pcXpNj0bxkbt6g6ANkwvECeZ_TsFVeZSojCxIzvw0oepHdnouoI8X5Gte76AQYMZMeDTI-W8upJP0-rgMUo3Js-UA27WE3WU69tlWSQi4IQTYq_O1WZTZkunqjVvv0pECvGjBNR2yxlyzR3GXHxaWG7INTqJ7mwrU3d/s324/saturdays-critters.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="235" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQTk0rdfzTxtg-UkBpuf5K9a3s9pcXpNj0bxkbt6g6ANkwvECeZ_TsFVeZSojCxIzvw0oepHdnouoI8X5Gte76AQYMZMeDTI-W8upJP0-rgMUo3Js-UA27WE3WU69tlWSQi4IQTYq_O1WZTZkunqjVvv0pECvGjBNR2yxlyzR3GXHxaWG7INTqJ7mwrU3d/s320/saturdays-critters.jpg" width="232" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Thanks to all my visitors and for your past and present comments. 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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!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">These images are from our visit and walk at the Loch Raven Reservoir, Baltimore County. It is nice to take a walk in a different location than our neighborhood. Usually we can see a variety of winter ducks at this reservoir. There are usually lots of Gulls and Mallards hanging around the parking area. When we got out of our car, the ducks came running. They are used to people and being fed. Sorry ducks, we did not bring any food. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">1. Our first stop was near the secondary dam, here we saw a large group of male and female Hooded Mergansers, Canada Geese, Ring-billed Gull and some Mallard ducks. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguv3u0qAQMFEQmHsCM79T6hzP8YjeYIQ3Z6Y6ODTUtqwyfNMJNfqE96xiaiRBVmOoctHS1nTyiIIw4dt4kE4aPa1Azpz9MHsmjaC4-rh5faQtFeFpIGPysicChZ_Jq3Cp2iyVWfQU7zBzIX3euYh3g4tXhZmJDVuhdE5RWZvG8kjqodxSlaIbpPMGOGdym/s1920/Loch%20Raven%20collage.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguv3u0qAQMFEQmHsCM79T6hzP8YjeYIQ3Z6Y6ODTUtqwyfNMJNfqE96xiaiRBVmOoctHS1nTyiIIw4dt4kE4aPa1Azpz9MHsmjaC4-rh5faQtFeFpIGPysicChZ_Jq3Cp2iyVWfQU7zBzIX3euYh3g4tXhZmJDVuhdE5RWZvG8kjqodxSlaIbpPMGOGdym/w640-h640/Loch%20Raven%20collage.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">2. The Hooded Mergansers are one of my favorite ducks. The males have a fan shaped crest that can collapse. The females have a cinnamon colored crest.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL4pP_7Bpu_lvlYro3gXJPm6uaUmEM9IN5_15897NvjLKtalbAUTf61eqLIpbBLgLILszD2SJKQU1ya9ozeAQk-_rqPDhyphenhyphenQIhx7LhE9uNBzKJ_Y1f_qs1Amm-GzNUnXSeoX0EdnMmUd9mG52v8x6lwtzZ5C74qD2hyphenhyphen31avRvs_V3kX0XtT6P_UpzFXvH8X/s2333/IMG_8688A.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1750" data-original-width="2333" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL4pP_7Bpu_lvlYro3gXJPm6uaUmEM9IN5_15897NvjLKtalbAUTf61eqLIpbBLgLILszD2SJKQU1ya9ozeAQk-_rqPDhyphenhyphenQIhx7LhE9uNBzKJ_Y1f_qs1Amm-GzNUnXSeoX0EdnMmUd9mG52v8x6lwtzZ5C74qD2hyphenhyphen31avRvs_V3kX0XtT6P_UpzFXvH8X/w640-h480/IMG_8688A.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">This group of Canada Geese and Mallards were resting on the top of the secondary dam. </span></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsvaECE32YqzLJZxQ4qOZ2roXcwSK2-1sun4sNQ-ypBi-f2q0ug4ftuvodyF-NyG14Ckp7I8EU7IP5M87KQo2OxSayNFzA8cACW1MiT4xvwSuFfbKMGBkfswe2tHrOcV893nL_IOyaTm6Oog65TgSDXXg4uCwicCC8y5mH2yKWdhMW-K-oarG0VfM9YJCB/s2333/IMG_8712A.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1750" data-original-width="2333" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsvaECE32YqzLJZxQ4qOZ2roXcwSK2-1sun4sNQ-ypBi-f2q0ug4ftuvodyF-NyG14Ckp7I8EU7IP5M87KQo2OxSayNFzA8cACW1MiT4xvwSuFfbKMGBkfswe2tHrOcV893nL_IOyaTm6Oog65TgSDXXg4uCwicCC8y5mH2yKWdhMW-K-oarG0VfM9YJCB/w640-h480/IMG_8712A.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">3. This large group of Mallards and Gulls were just fed, a couple in a car pulled up with some kind of food. Hopefully it was not bread. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2wuH3PYU0sjtkAPMKxYK_5SQdtTMjYT4Vso_s_BwK7dt0UJqtuNSS5k1Mc6rztZOqLVOPRu5QvN7hH44RCeiTXGksBWAKgdm2c1kvZq9Yspy91xBwI-5z_rX3PSP4sN9-hVo3cWzp09JfGi-P4h_OeT-6N1QIV0D7aqBNxJ5xQ1Q3kvolWHy7zOUgeSMd/s1920/Loch%20Raven%20Mallards.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2wuH3PYU0sjtkAPMKxYK_5SQdtTMjYT4Vso_s_BwK7dt0UJqtuNSS5k1Mc6rztZOqLVOPRu5QvN7hH44RCeiTXGksBWAKgdm2c1kvZq9Yspy91xBwI-5z_rX3PSP4sN9-hVo3cWzp09JfGi-P4h_OeT-6N1QIV0D7aqBNxJ5xQ1Q3kvolWHy7zOUgeSMd/w640-h640/Loch%20Raven%20Mallards.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">4. The large group of Mallards are resting after just being fed. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3A7CWL3bOBRNhJNsZheTMz4CjmaME8ghONoWreTFRkYydBx5RBtcWCAwtslCJB0aE-ToqbZbbYU33FSDCtD9fY5xLUebQKoDW4W9l9X2coCjf_o09OIe_kO3yvvtzBvvElJch2SeTtGy7vJh46gsDflJ1TqWTHFk7w6KJLvGt3tVwcRsv_KYSxBG0oXyK/s2074/IMG_8764A.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1556" data-original-width="2074" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3A7CWL3bOBRNhJNsZheTMz4CjmaME8ghONoWreTFRkYydBx5RBtcWCAwtslCJB0aE-ToqbZbbYU33FSDCtD9fY5xLUebQKoDW4W9l9X2coCjf_o09OIe_kO3yvvtzBvvElJch2SeTtGy7vJh46gsDflJ1TqWTHFk7w6KJLvGt3tVwcRsv_KYSxBG0oXyK/w640-h480/IMG_8764A.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">5. I know the bottom gull is a the Ring-billed Gull, I am not sure about the top gull. It does look like a juvenile?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiKdBuPVMSQYlxlfnOdfxPhI6eWmekS6BHo6an_xoACWl2GOm_TUyVpSVQZTES18m_i23CUWYrdXMiQVSUhO51PFuhmiyTph9fvNhOTsHY5RHxQHxc4mRpPE5s1PdzW8zyEWaCicjhGA7L8YFpL4Q_RdBkCdsHBRh0PmgzmZjUv0EgEXjdzYAIpKZPGk5z/s1920/Loch%20Raven%20Gull%20collage.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiKdBuPVMSQYlxlfnOdfxPhI6eWmekS6BHo6an_xoACWl2GOm_TUyVpSVQZTES18m_i23CUWYrdXMiQVSUhO51PFuhmiyTph9fvNhOTsHY5RHxQHxc4mRpPE5s1PdzW8zyEWaCicjhGA7L8YFpL4Q_RdBkCdsHBRh0PmgzmZjUv0EgEXjdzYAIpKZPGk5z/w640-h640/Loch%20Raven%20Gull%20collage.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span>6. </span>We saw a large group of the Ring-necked Ducks. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGlzJRsf-UunAPn1vPecHCmCVyOdIfHhNNgCJNg8Da2BpPOrR_Ly-B07HrlnlHcT-lf6lSqqWm5LjkDr1kDD509EMxSUP1o5mCO_TtoSr3DEYSBgoChMZguGjEleJL9QD_4bTvQ-32pWmGucln1iaEYZmHIcEF78zfSG7FrGFFHDEhgf94k-7e7mGSBexV/s2333/IMG_8730A.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1750" data-original-width="2333" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGlzJRsf-UunAPn1vPecHCmCVyOdIfHhNNgCJNg8Da2BpPOrR_Ly-B07HrlnlHcT-lf6lSqqWm5LjkDr1kDD509EMxSUP1o5mCO_TtoSr3DEYSBgoChMZguGjEleJL9QD_4bTvQ-32pWmGucln1iaEYZmHIcEF78zfSG7FrGFFHDEhgf94k-7e7mGSBexV/w640-h480/IMG_8730A.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">7. I tried for a closer look at the Ring-necked Ducks. The male is black, gray and white with a prominent white ring on the bill. The females are brown with a white patch near the bill.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-XED4xY0Ww6b-9bfjaHSOIXg3Md2bOp7MtWA27ubO2Qp0YYlyBWI23_iVt7Q4VvqZsUP3-cr33EIlu_sMm2FVcb2dZc2UZMc1t2bCJsK4yhkz5q33r2JZ3Y6ZJE5JBtqQYw2BZZPU0BjXUYAU5ABCpYNwCvY23IQco1tXdQu2NcLpWPrgSC82ThT8eqhk/s2074/IMG_8743A.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1556" data-original-width="2074" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-XED4xY0Ww6b-9bfjaHSOIXg3Md2bOp7MtWA27ubO2Qp0YYlyBWI23_iVt7Q4VvqZsUP3-cr33EIlu_sMm2FVcb2dZc2UZMc1t2bCJsK4yhkz5q33r2JZ3Y6ZJE5JBtqQYw2BZZPU0BjXUYAU5ABCpYNwCvY23IQco1tXdQu2NcLpWPrgSC82ThT8eqhk/w640-h480/IMG_8743A.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">A closer look at the Ring-billed Gull. They have a heavy bill with a distinct ring.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaE_5Y9Vl5GGBOYYuafi6XVf5DG55khV87ZKv00i8xh0FjNO1jQJY7UBsbgA_WgGGXqdmNtOyRLwPHide8B5L02W1q78KGADKNZuePGocEzuuxVWZHp6gT0Zki7UuC3SVuFkI-nz2u3BxZkV0a5iYhosmJDfJizWfcbqyngtJkcZfPTY9kxnaInHDqy3D6/s2074/IMG_8755A.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1556" data-original-width="2074" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaE_5Y9Vl5GGBOYYuafi6XVf5DG55khV87ZKv00i8xh0FjNO1jQJY7UBsbgA_WgGGXqdmNtOyRLwPHide8B5L02W1q78KGADKNZuePGocEzuuxVWZHp6gT0Zki7UuC3SVuFkI-nz2u3BxZkV0a5iYhosmJDfJizWfcbqyngtJkcZfPTY9kxnaInHDqy3D6/w640-h480/IMG_8755A.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">8. On the way home we rode past the Friendly Farm ponds, there were 5 Bald Eagles on the ground. Three adult Bald Eagles next to one pond and there were 2 juvenile Eagles across the driveway and near the second pond. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMpwiEK3Om4rCBbnaPP6z7Lz3FDwBAvz65q7HxTfitgKQ1kFOVGKCoCiu2LDOelpZyPkAW6FGeUGaJTH2W4_kMRhSu2Bkx95X2ZGqC_1VjPpqBe83baOAAzmI6UomZpcmnmcpMPKUomqYV-r4sfKWfPhZr1ihd2eQSyogUbjw3ZJcJwwoeJZ-dQ2hr8XXd/s1920/Friendly%20Farm%20Badl%20Eagle%20collage.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMpwiEK3Om4rCBbnaPP6z7Lz3FDwBAvz65q7HxTfitgKQ1kFOVGKCoCiu2LDOelpZyPkAW6FGeUGaJTH2W4_kMRhSu2Bkx95X2ZGqC_1VjPpqBe83baOAAzmI6UomZpcmnmcpMPKUomqYV-r4sfKWfPhZr1ihd2eQSyogUbjw3ZJcJwwoeJZ-dQ2hr8XXd/w640-h640/Friendly%20Farm%20Badl%20Eagle%20collage.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /><span style="color: #0b5394;">"Let us give nature a chance, she knows her business better than we do."</span><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I wanted to ask if anyone could help me to create a new badge for the Saturday's Critters party. A new year and time for a change. Thanks in advance!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Thank you for sharing your critters and post!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">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. Also, if you like you can add the badge below on your Saturday's Critter post. Thank you to <a href="https://craniumbolts.blogspot.com/2024/01/intimate-day-with-saul-kere-birds.html" target="_blank">Shiju </a>for making the new badge. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYCpnDPwNs_Q8WW1QFHN3usKcP0ZJ9WZQDrdTQmYdTz_V0PSIi8Tvx3cmpn-SJEC_ivgxK42-uDu4km2uMJE1vo4UQmRV4wPdne4-uakXKTbv6hD3a_rnOjDi3qx8jU5oQgbICxjA_wb74KPzprRVnWNbyE3UKL9ZhOwY_NPLHa5zHBekLh9y0_t-pWYJd/s324/saturdays-critters.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="235" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYCpnDPwNs_Q8WW1QFHN3usKcP0ZJ9WZQDrdTQmYdTz_V0PSIi8Tvx3cmpn-SJEC_ivgxK42-uDu4km2uMJE1vo4UQmRV4wPdne4-uakXKTbv6hD3a_rnOjDi3qx8jU5oQgbICxjA_wb74KPzprRVnWNbyE3UKL9ZhOwY_NPLHa5zHBekLh9y0_t-pWYJd/s320/saturdays-critters.jpg" width="232" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Here is my linky:</span></p><script src="//www.blenza.com/linkies/easylink.php?owner=EileeninMd&postid=11Dec2023&meme=12669" type="text/javascript"></script><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I am linking up to Heidrun's <a href="https://happy-hour-with-picts.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Mosaic Monday </a> I hope you can stop by and visit Heidrun and check out the Mosaic Monday post.</span></p>eileeninmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00070309645796725309noreply@blogger.com134tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1264193705821192168.post-79457914947641321782023-12-31T12:00:00.001-05:002023-12-31T12:00:00.133-05:00Happy New Year 2024 <p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> Happy New Year 2024</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">May the New Year bring you happiness, peace and prosperity. Wishing you a wonderful New Year!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXsisXqMFKMJ6n146Z0QAIeV73SSssbmRZkVasLRhqJgj7PHpyVa6nJec-H4I2ArD6iZ0No1VwspNUT-zmxkZsm1N1j7Uams4yphPnod5R4K70NlGl4qjGKot03mWQUC1rS0QgBSHMyOXa1F3AGDnovaqROTy6yjjGAi5hP9S7GPFq0evX-_E14oYqU_o_/s1920/happy-new-year-2016-SMS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1920" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXsisXqMFKMJ6n146Z0QAIeV73SSssbmRZkVasLRhqJgj7PHpyVa6nJec-H4I2ArD6iZ0No1VwspNUT-zmxkZsm1N1j7Uams4yphPnod5R4K70NlGl4qjGKot03mWQUC1rS0QgBSHMyOXa1F3AGDnovaqROTy6yjjGAi5hP9S7GPFq0evX-_E14oYqU_o_/w640-h400/happy-new-year-2016-SMS.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Comments off! Have a great day!</span></p>eileeninmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00070309645796725309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1264193705821192168.post-43922759520454889942023-12-30T00:00:00.123-05:002024-01-09T10:24:52.063-05:00Saturday's Critters # 524<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span><span>Welcome to Saturday's Critters! </span></span><span>Hello and Happy Saturday!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> 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!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><span>I wish everyone all the best in 2024, a very Happy and Healthy New Year</span>! </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>This is my last critter post and linky for 2023. I want to thank everyone who has participated and commented throughout the year. I hope to see you and your critters in 2024.</b></span> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I am sharing some of my yard birds and local birds from our walks around our lake and to the NCR bike trail. I am still catching up with my photos, these were mostly from November and early December. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">1. Late fall we enjoyed a walk on the NCR bike trail. My bird sightings were the Brown Creeper and a Ruby-crowned Kinglet. The Brown Creeper can be hard to find it blends in well with the bark of the tree.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaqHoRpNNPTotGiAuMOWUSQw_UAxU8DXRZGbD_7K_dvhMUuOwkWjFMxSbXUuEkMWlqhOtXVLC8ckZrTKJf9DXW2kiT7KJ1KM7Xf1OsFlBct2wqvH_rhgzVFC5Hh8THIwhxj-z-z3CU8hKRvumsIjk4wu7T_8FqWv7JGQL3Oe8qpr3wqoOUJLSg-9hX6FoD/s1920/NCR%20Bike%20trail%2010-26-23.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaqHoRpNNPTotGiAuMOWUSQw_UAxU8DXRZGbD_7K_dvhMUuOwkWjFMxSbXUuEkMWlqhOtXVLC8ckZrTKJf9DXW2kiT7KJ1KM7Xf1OsFlBct2wqvH_rhgzVFC5Hh8THIwhxj-z-z3CU8hKRvumsIjk4wu7T_8FqWv7JGQL3Oe8qpr3wqoOUJLSg-9hX6FoD/w640-h640/NCR%20Bike%20trail%2010-26-23.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">2. Below are a few yard birds and neighborhood raptor. A yard bird is the Dark-eyed leucistic Junco, he is a cutie. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT1lTWshN37HKni9pCcJdDwwuYEtQjzPKOog4QvpPK2AvbboQi_K3c1TyLASdtWHKWhaUWLS9VQVNM-9GiASNjTHm5bOUR9PNdR1vSbuvU8be1UBUCG2xdK3-RPx-TQxNghy2VN2X2ri13YY6_pQn3eW9eGXNln-1D2X9ePzfuQLJMixPEwCGQKl9jEthg/s2333/IMG_8548A.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1750" data-original-width="2333" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT1lTWshN37HKni9pCcJdDwwuYEtQjzPKOog4QvpPK2AvbboQi_K3c1TyLASdtWHKWhaUWLS9VQVNM-9GiASNjTHm5bOUR9PNdR1vSbuvU8be1UBUCG2xdK3-RPx-TQxNghy2VN2X2ri13YY6_pQn3eW9eGXNln-1D2X9ePzfuQLJMixPEwCGQKl9jEthg/w640-h480/IMG_8548A.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">3. In the back corner of our yard, I noticed a flock of Cedar Waxwings. They found some berries on a nearby tree. I counted 10 Waxwings, there may have been more. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRHhbV0wD84eNMqUcwaCMbB1OJtlu_CxLosGVS5pZRJ_VDqWtJewLq2pMCpXfDQnc1VHyEPhpZbrz50s35zDqdfqlGkgCTnXpxwt6JMeC8NsR0uKDBJu5BuOCBenV3OFVDpiksa8zu4V4GMVgGuQq6SGPrRqgX9u5iMAxma8o3UlbsEdFGADu9Wq7FMncO/s2333/IMG_8569A.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1750" data-original-width="2333" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRHhbV0wD84eNMqUcwaCMbB1OJtlu_CxLosGVS5pZRJ_VDqWtJewLq2pMCpXfDQnc1VHyEPhpZbrz50s35zDqdfqlGkgCTnXpxwt6JMeC8NsR0uKDBJu5BuOCBenV3OFVDpiksa8zu4V4GMVgGuQq6SGPrRqgX9u5iMAxma8o3UlbsEdFGADu9Wq7FMncO/w640-h480/IMG_8569A.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">4. On our walk to the lake, we watched some Blue Jays and a Vulture flying around a hawk perched high in the tree. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlkgPmtQkNCULzbuoPq75eLcMk0vcDSZtlw9zWE_PgPlJJIkJAqltK5RcF7A8-mPomMF6EVPFayapzar1YA4bV32GIsQr-QaABrtNSDm1JZYIYF1KhnL4EQ_Bl9jvRgsNS6xYlgUjs0s7X1azOLLOUVuqustRC7kJHYvnioOolBndY43735S581fa_dy1q/s1920/Unknown%20hawk.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlkgPmtQkNCULzbuoPq75eLcMk0vcDSZtlw9zWE_PgPlJJIkJAqltK5RcF7A8-mPomMF6EVPFayapzar1YA4bV32GIsQr-QaABrtNSDm1JZYIYF1KhnL4EQ_Bl9jvRgsNS6xYlgUjs0s7X1azOLLOUVuqustRC7kJHYvnioOolBndY43735S581fa_dy1q/w640-h640/Unknown%20hawk.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">5. At the local lake, we found a Bald Eagle taking a bath. The Canada Geese were not too far away. The bottom right photo is an unknown in my back yard. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDL8G8WCEvzHnb3cZpX83dvR4Xh40n7jvEeH_vAX2ftOpT7MkfzzBGEdLGkXVRvBjvrTs9_eEm5ZRky48bxHgznE3-s4GNEl8JdDAlCRfT7PgLb9LqtSCzeLT3AJ4sT_0N6F2lGsIA8AmiZUAfGmKA7TEQja0FTaXzuO6kBJH3cDctj1Ku8tbGGyUrwrTf/s1920/Prettyboy_backyard%20hawk.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDL8G8WCEvzHnb3cZpX83dvR4Xh40n7jvEeH_vAX2ftOpT7MkfzzBGEdLGkXVRvBjvrTs9_eEm5ZRky48bxHgznE3-s4GNEl8JdDAlCRfT7PgLb9LqtSCzeLT3AJ4sT_0N6F2lGsIA8AmiZUAfGmKA7TEQja0FTaXzuO6kBJH3cDctj1Ku8tbGGyUrwrTf/w640-h640/Prettyboy_backyard%20hawk.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">6. Our outings are not always nature related, we do visit with our son, DIL and grandsons and of course we love seeing our grand-dogs Winnie and Nibbles. They are cute critters. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIW2dCL8x1syIHnnlEgp18ciSPAN95Bx1NJ1lxGXHQ55MDLjcMCnx8sjpcHm2LX7TLyCkn5OXbnb4uXmKZ1pxXg1Knqda28wjsLewdk98r6SrIL09HAAYyI2FigJ9cdjQjlCeEjZOQbwK8Bi2JzI10K2TCFUSdaCLcEwR5fCJR9YwHhZ26qu1cT0pkTsez/s1920/Winnie%20and%20Nibbles.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIW2dCL8x1syIHnnlEgp18ciSPAN95Bx1NJ1lxGXHQ55MDLjcMCnx8sjpcHm2LX7TLyCkn5OXbnb4uXmKZ1pxXg1Knqda28wjsLewdk98r6SrIL09HAAYyI2FigJ9cdjQjlCeEjZOQbwK8Bi2JzI10K2TCFUSdaCLcEwR5fCJR9YwHhZ26qu1cT0pkTsez/w640-h640/Winnie%20and%20Nibbles.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Christmas with the family and the grand-dogs.</span><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj70FTZSp0E5x2sbRlhwZJ-05mXzUcdsCeW5S6iQ1CU02vECm9gaAAD7hF4otHAYM3DsMq9byO1H-OOeg9AWW1RE0SnIN87ej-N45BIirjJAMnDzGhaFw5KKz9GV91St6-FizNqpvQEQv5Zh1VR-rUXfGkKkfwuGusxeDeOfBlUKGwk_vSkWFWuFfcEFMoq/s1920/Granddogs%20and%20Christmas%20collage.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj70FTZSp0E5x2sbRlhwZJ-05mXzUcdsCeW5S6iQ1CU02vECm9gaAAD7hF4otHAYM3DsMq9byO1H-OOeg9AWW1RE0SnIN87ej-N45BIirjJAMnDzGhaFw5KKz9GV91St6-FizNqpvQEQv5Zh1VR-rUXfGkKkfwuGusxeDeOfBlUKGwk_vSkWFWuFfcEFMoq/w640-h640/Granddogs%20and%20Christmas%20collage.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">7. The Tufted Titmouse hanging out in our front yard too, this one is sitting in the rhododendron outside our den window. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf2EKPfdp7HkNmTzoLBpYblR3elB0Lhjb_vnERDgdZhfDMITCpni9Ge74WKrX3lnBAqxpSqiEiax8XadVCIY4AuGYf2lhMkOXMmOOhDbKI4q_RvQ4Vw3JtJRAaqENEyNg0_MCvMUEWq63s40TKQ1vTjLqEtFtMzmrpMVHv5LrrjPqWOcnbmglb_ki7iSHB/s2333/IMG_8639A.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1750" data-original-width="2333" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf2EKPfdp7HkNmTzoLBpYblR3elB0Lhjb_vnERDgdZhfDMITCpni9Ge74WKrX3lnBAqxpSqiEiax8XadVCIY4AuGYf2lhMkOXMmOOhDbKI4q_RvQ4Vw3JtJRAaqENEyNg0_MCvMUEWq63s40TKQ1vTjLqEtFtMzmrpMVHv5LrrjPqWOcnbmglb_ki7iSHB/w640-h480/IMG_8639A.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br />8. I've been seeing and hearing the White-throated Sparrows around my yard. Sometimes they come to the deck for the peanut nuggets I put out on our deck railing. </span><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhCGPXv5juSrxDiVbQw0hy9BRWsZk7zl6Xc2z8L7fJH4UdBbA2qN_Syl8SjWteseNsAumh_Ld8TgYE_XqwAMcv7TJIxjbncE5cq2irYxvk2molfLXl-NMbWyCIS1pemraAskC9XYpZ5WnvYrYD9__TyJIROCLKBngWSRAWQBZgNbzwVp6jpYgJ5Lxb3pk/s2074/IMG_8778A.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1556" data-original-width="2074" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhCGPXv5juSrxDiVbQw0hy9BRWsZk7zl6Xc2z8L7fJH4UdBbA2qN_Syl8SjWteseNsAumh_Ld8TgYE_XqwAMcv7TJIxjbncE5cq2irYxvk2molfLXl-NMbWyCIS1pemraAskC9XYpZ5WnvYrYD9__TyJIROCLKBngWSRAWQBZgNbzwVp6jpYgJ5Lxb3pk/w640-h480/IMG_8778A.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">9. The Blue Jays seem to be the most common bird seen in my yard. They can grab up to 5 of the peanut nuggets at one time. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgveu_Zsmy8GbbiqTPRnh-_GIe50S8mPouWJvATZV-qDXJ8mlYLS-6kY0ucxVbHERtWpV9jWWP50IwrnDyvK-fQwkDKpJsYElx4rTGz0lHrhEpoK0s-cs6blHxAtl3YtqOwzzPWDxyx7z2RWARrVuF8hiBhYGJoVjokUCPGDTrUqNOpyyZcrq3dcmm998cQ/s2074/IMG_8785A.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1556" data-original-width="2074" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgveu_Zsmy8GbbiqTPRnh-_GIe50S8mPouWJvATZV-qDXJ8mlYLS-6kY0ucxVbHERtWpV9jWWP50IwrnDyvK-fQwkDKpJsYElx4rTGz0lHrhEpoK0s-cs6blHxAtl3YtqOwzzPWDxyx7z2RWARrVuF8hiBhYGJoVjokUCPGDTrUqNOpyyZcrq3dcmm998cQ/w640-h480/IMG_8785A.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I hope you enjoyed my birds and critters. 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