Saturday's Critters # 667

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

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

Here again I am posting about taking walks with Miney, mostly on the local fire roads in my neighborhood. Sometimes hubby will join us on these walks or walks at the bike trail.  

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1. Aug 13th, butterflies and blooms from my back yard. 

2. MY back yard, seeing lots of Swallowtail butterflies, Fritillary Butterflies and Goldfinches at my feeder. 

Our walk on the NCR bike trail, someone made and attached these cute wood carvings on the fence, some flowers were still blooming. 

3. I am not sure what the flowers are called, they are close to the entrance of the local fire road.  Miney and I are out on our walk to the local fire road. 

4. August 17th, we had some rain and lots of dew in the early mornings, does moisture help the mushrooms to grow? 

My favorite local walk on the fire road with Miney and Hubby. 

5. I've been seeing lots of mushrooms while on my walks with Miney.  

I think many birds have started migrating, my Merlin list last month had as many as 20 or more birds the list below has only 9 birds.  

I always love hearing the Yellow-billed Cuckoo calling. 

6. I am not sure what the name of these pretty wildflowers, anyone know?

7. Another walk with Miney, lots of ferns and mushroom seen off the fire road.  A Wood Pewee was calling and seen sitting in a nearby tree.

8. The trail has been one of my favorites lately.  I can take a quick 1 mile walk roundtrip from my house, Miney is able to enjoy all the scents on the fire road.  

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Saturday's Critters # 662

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

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

As usual, I am sharing my dog Miney and our walks on the trails, birds from my yard and the local watershed fire roads. 

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1. I am addicted to the Merlin App, I have it on during everyone of my walks with Miney.  I included one of my Goldfinch photos with the Merlin app screenshot.

Below one of my Cardinal photos is added to the Merlin Screenshot.

2. July 8, walk with Miney on our local Prettyboy fire road. This local fire road trail is mostly covered with pine needles, which makes walking so much easier. The weeds and grasses are taking over some of our other local trails. They need to come and cut the grass on the trails, I am sure the ticks and bugs love the long grass. 

" A walk in nature walks the soul back home."

 

Above I included the Chipping Sparrow image and below is the House Finch image.

3. I am sticking to the same trail for walking Miney, we walk till we come to the downed tree and then turn around and go back home. 

"An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day."

The  Scarlet Tanager is a breeder in the Prettyboy Watershed, I can recognize their calls while I am out walking Miney.

The Pine Warbler is another breeder in our local Prettyboy Watershed, I hear them calling off the trail and they sometimes visit my deck for some food. 

4. Miney loves her walk on the fire road! 

You can see the reservoir is still low, the water usually is up to the trees. The Killdeer are enjoying the muddy area and the geese love the grasses that are growing.

5. A zoomed in look at a Killdeer, I saw 8-10 Killdeer running around the muddy area. 

Killdeer

A Bald Eagle spooked the Killdeer flying in and making the Killdeer take off and fly around. The Eagle landed in a tree and the Killdeer went back to their spot on the mud.

Prettyboy Merlin birds, from our walk to the reservoir.

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Saturday's Critters # 660

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

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

Lately I am sharing a mish-mash of photos from my back yard and my walks with Miney and Hubby. 

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1. The American Goldfinches one of my regular back yard bird visiting the thistle feeder.  

Below a female Goldfinch, waiting for her turn on the feeder. 

2. The Red-bellied Woodpecker, lately I have been watching a family of four of these birds coming and going to my feeder. They love the little peanut suet balls.

The Gray Squirrels will take over my feeders and empty the bird feeders in the blink of an eye. 

A juvenile Red-bellied Woodpecker, one of the family of 4 I have been seeing on my deck.  

3. A walk with Miney and hubby on the NCR bike trail in Parkton Md. I like seeing the Bee Balm blooming at the start of our walk. Along the trail we had 3 sightings of deer, luckily Miney only saw one. I think Miney would chase them if she could. I did see one Great Blue Heron, standing in the river it was mostly hidden by some tree branches. 

One of the deer we saw off the NCR bike trail.

4. On the drive home from the walk, I had to stop the car and let this group of Canada Geese cross the road.

5. A walk with Miney on the local Prettyboy fire road. 

The Merlin app picked the Ovenbird as my bird of the day, you can see above and my Ovenbird collage below.  They are breeders in the Prettyboy watershed area around our neighborhood.

This downed tree was my turn around spot and head home.

6. Back at home after our walk, I captured a male Eastern Bluebird standing on top of one of our birdhouses.  I think the couple has started on a new nest.

Some of the flowers on our deck, they attract the hummingbirds and butterflies.

"Make the present moment into the most wonderful moment of your life."

7. Another walk with Miney on the local fire road at Prettyboy. 

I hope you enjoyed coming along on my walks and the birds and critters I am sharing today. 

I am linking up to Heidrun's Mosaic Monday   I hope you can stop by and visit Heidrun and check out the Mosaic Monday post.

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Saturday's Critters # 491

Welcome to Saturday's Critters!

Hello and happy Saturday!

 If you love all God's creatures like I do and also like to blog about them and take critter photos this is where you can share your critter post. Link up your post and share your critters, join in with my critter party ! You can share any kind of critters the real ones, pretend ones, statues and paintings, a new or old post!

I am sorry I will be late visiting, I will be away from my computer. As always thank you for participating with Saturday's Critters. I hope you can visit some of the other links and I will be visiting and commenting as soon as possible. 

At the time I prepared this post, we had been enjoying some nice warm Spring weather days, perfect for our early morning walks and to do some birding.  On this day we went to a local park called Hashawha Nature Center. We had some nice sightings of the Eastern Bluebird, Eastern Towhee, Goldfinches and Tree Swallows. I heard a lot more birds than I was able to take their photos. The wildflowers were looking beautiful. 

1. Wildflowers blooming at Hashawha, the Bluebells, Helleborus, possibly Bloodroot or I'll say a couple of unknown flowers. The Mourning Cloak Butterfly, turtle and possible Eastern Spring Beauties. Eastern Bluebird, Eastern Towhee and an American Goldfinch. 

"Spring: the music of open windows."

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2. This pretty Helleborus or also known as the Lenten Rose had a lot of blooms. 

3. The Mourning Cloak Butterfly landed on the boardwalk near the lake. 

"Every day holds more magic."

4. One of the many turtles we saw at the Hashawha Lake. 

5. The American Goldfinches were perched high in the tree tops.  This looks like a female Goldfinch. 

6. The Eastern Bluebirds have lots of birdhouses to nest at this park.  

7. The Eastern Towhee, a pretty bird with a black head and back, rufous sides with a white belly.

8.  I am happy to see the Eastern Bluebirds doing so well, we heard and saw a lot during our walk at the park. 

9.  The Slider Turtles share the lake with the larger Snapping Turtle.

 

I am behind sharing my birds, these are my yard birds seen in early April. I had a mix of some winter birds and some new spring birds have arrived.

10.  April 7th : my yard birds are the White-throated Sparrow, Eastern Bluebird, Brown Thrasher, Dark-eyed Junco, Tufted Titmouse, Purple Finches. 

11. April 8th: my yard birds were the Blue Jay, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Carolina Wren, White-throated Sparrow, Northern Cardinal, Brown-headed Cowbird. 

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Thanks to all my visitors and for your past and present comments. Stop back to see any replies to your comments. I appreciate everyone who loves and respects wildlife. Thank you for linking up a critter post.

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I am also linking up to Anni's blog party found here I'd Rather B Birding   Anni always has some beautiful birds to be seen on her blog, check it out! Also, I am also linking up to Heidrun's Mosaic Monday  I hope you can stop by and visit Heidrun and check out the Mosaic Monday post.