Saturday's Critters # 603

 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!

Edit: I may not be available as much in the next week, my hubby may be starting dialysis this week. He is very anxious about the treatment, can you please keep him in your prayers.

Another update, as of Monday morning Hubby is refusing to go for the dialysis, I am sure he is scared of the outcome. I am not able to force him. Quality of life is important. 

Today is Miney's 1st birthday, Happy Birthday to Miney!   🎂🎈 ❤️ We started fostering Miney on Jan 11th and we officially adopted her on Jan 20th. 

Photos are from the middle of May. My walks with Miney are always surrounded by nature, early morning walks are filled with the sounds of birds singing. 

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" A walk in nature walks the soul back home"  Mary Davis

1. May 15th, another walk on our local fire road, I was walking Miney and listening to the birds singing.  Most of my walks lately I hear the same birds below is the cute Blue-gray Gnatcatcher is a quick little bird moving around in the trees.

May15th, I heard more birds off the fire road trail during our walk with Miney.  I think a storm might have been pushing some different warblers through our area. I do see some of these Warblers in the Fall in my backyard. They love the Devil's Walking Stick berries. 

The Northern Cardinals are a year round bird, they are seen in my back yard and in the forest next to our home.  They are often seen and heard while we are walking on the local fire roads. 

2. Below is a mosaic of the warblers and a Chat that were picked up by the Merlin App, top row is the American Redstart, second row is the Bay-breasted Warbler, bottom row are from left to right the Blackpoll Warbler, Nashville Warbler and the Yellow-breasted Chat. 

3. May 16th, my Merlin App picked up the Wood Ducks sounds on May 15th and 16th in the same area of the fire road trail close to a cove area of the Prettyboy Reservoir.

4. May 16th, I am hearing the Eastern Wood-Pewee calling in the same area of the fire road trail. 

5. On our walks lately I hear lots of Red-eyed Vireos. 

6. Miney is always on alert during our walks, looking for dogs or critters.  I think she has a good nose and can smell animals around. She goes crazy if she sees a deer running in the distance. 

7. Flashback to some Shenandoah Bird July 2019. On the trail I saw a few Warblers on the ground. The photos below are the Black and White Warbler and a female American Redstart.

Another look at the Black and White Warbler.

8. Another Shenandoah Flashback from July 2019, a male Eastern Towhee.

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

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

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Saturday's Critters # 443

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 sharing various images from our local walks, I never know what we will see on our walks. I always take some photos of whatever I see, mostly anything nature related. 

1. May 9th I have photos from our walk to the lake with the dogs and some more of my back yard birds. In the mosaic are the grand-dogs, a view of our lake, Canada Geese, a Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher on the nest, A Baltimore Oriole half hidden in the leaves, Mallard Ducks, more dog photos and a wild azalea. 

2. The Blue-gray Gnatcatcher is seen and heard in our forest. I found this one on a nest near our lake. 

3.  May 7th, I've been seeing the Scarlet Tanagers all around our yard also on the same day I saw the American Redstart in our back yard. I think they were enjoying our pond and catching bugs to eat. 

4. The male American Redstart was hanging out in the back part of our yard.

5. May 10th, our back yard birds. The Scarlet Tanager is being seen just about every day, another Northern Parula and the Red-bellied Woodpecker. 

6. May 10th a larger view of the male Scarlet Tanager, he is a beauty.

He sat in the dead tree in our yard, that we left for the woodpeckers. 

7. May 11th, our walk on the fire road a Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly , Pink Lady Slippers, Winnie the Corgi, Scarlet Tanager and a Blue-throated Blue Warbler. 

8. May 12th, our morning walk to the lake with dogs, we saw a fishing boat, the Canada Geese, Solitary Sandpiper and a Black Vulture. 

9. May 15th, another walk on the fire road with the grand-dogs. Another sighting of the Scarlet Tanager and back in my yard a wet Tufted Titmouse. 

10. May 16th,  Photos from our morning walk to the lake with the dogs. Near the lake we saw some wild azaleas in bloom, an Osprey and some unknown pink wildflowers. 

11. May 17th, our walks continue some times without the dogs. On this day hubby and I took a walk to see the Bald Eagles nest at the lake. We saw two Eaglets and the Bald Eagle couple all on the nest. Other birds seen were the Ovenbird and the Eastern Kinglets. We heard multiple Hooded Warblers calling while we walked on the fire road. 

I hope your enjoyed my photos, I am looking forward to seeing your critter post. 

Thank you for sharing your critters and post!

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

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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!

Saturday's Critters # 300

Welcome to Saturday's Critters!

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!

Wow, 300 Saturday Critter linky parties! Thanks to all who participate! I do love the critters! I am sharing the birds in my yard. 

This time of year is a good time for bird watching right in my backyard. I am seeing various migrating warblers, local breeders Scarlet Tanagers, the Gray Catbird and my usual Cardinals and Nuthatches.

The following 4 photos are from Sept 9th. Sorry they are not the best photos, they were all taken from my dining room window. 

I am still seeing at least 2-3 Ruby-throated Hummingbirds.

The Red-eyed Vireo has been hanging around the warblers eating the Devil's Walking Stick berries.

The Cape May Warbler like the berries too.

On Sept 10th, I watched the Scarlet Tanager, Gray Catbird, American Redstart and the Red-eyed Vireo all eating the berries.

The White-breasted Nuthatch is a regular visitor. 

The Red-eyed Vireo likes the berries too.

I think this is the female American Redstart. 

Two Scarlet Tangers eating berries, I think one is a female and the other is a juvenile.

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Shenandoah Nat'l Park Part II

Happy Thankful Thursday!

I am sharing photos from the 2nd day of our overnight visit to Shenandoah Nat'l Park. We started off early morning on a hard strenuous hike to the Hawksbill Summit. This trail is .8 miles all up hill. Round trip 1.6 miles on the Hawksbill trail, on this day we hiked a total of 4.5 miles. 

I have tried hiking this trail before and had to turn back due to a bad case of Vertigo. I was determined to complete this hike on this visit. 

A view of the Hawksbill Summit. 

We saw a few Dark-eyed Juncos at the summit. 

Hiking up the trail we noticed various warblers on the ground. We saw a few Black and White Warblers and a female American Redstart. 

Another Black and White Warbler. We were happy to be one of the first hikers on the trail that morning, the birds were all over the place. 

Below is a Black and White Warbler and possibly a Worm-eating Warbler? 

Lots of pretty wildflowers near the Hawksbill summit.

I am guessing this is bee balm?

Another view from the Hawksbill Summit.

I am thankful to complete a hike, especially a strenuous hike.  I am thankful for all your visits and comments. 


Thank you Michelle for hosting Thankful Thursday. 
Thank you to Yogi the host of   Skywatch Friday



Thanks so much for visiting and for your nice comments on my previous post. Have a happy day!

Our World, My World

Happy Monday, 

I wanted to share some more photos from our getaway to Shenandoah Nat'l Park. We saw a Black Bear along the drive and took a short walk on Big Meadows and my favorite trail called the Limberlost Trail.  

The view from the Range View overlook on the Skyline Drive.

A Shenandoah Nat'l park bird mosaic: Top row are the Red-eyed Vireo, Scarlet Tanager, Hooded Warbler. Middle Row is the Indigo Bunting. Bottom Row is a female American Redstart, not sure maybe a Veery and last a Great-crested Flycatcher. 

Pink Trillium, a pretty wildflower found in the park. 

Some of the Shenandoah Nat'l Park wildflowers. 

A Black Bear seen along the side of the Skyline Drive.  

A view of the Limberlost Trail.  We watched a couple of Eastern Phoebe in this area. 

Not sure what this moth/butterfly is?  

The Indigo Bunting was a common bird seen in the park, they were everywhere we went in the park. 

Thanks for your visit today!  I hope you enjoyed my post and photos.


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Thanks to LadyFi  the host of Our World Tuesday!

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