Saturday's Critters # 610

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I am sharing a mish-mash of photos from early July. I have not been far from home for birdwatching outings. My walks with Miney are close to home since my hubby can not do any long walks. Hubby started having Dialysis for his kidney disease on July 14th and now it's Aug 23, so it's been over a month. The treatment seems to be going well, as well as can be expected. 

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1. July 2nd, at this time I was seeing some bunnies all sizes in our yard. The baby bunnies are so cute. They are scared of Miney and they run away if she is too close. 

2. July 4th, a walk with Miney on the fire road at Prettyboy. 

3. July 5th, a back yard Carolina Wren was singing loudly. 

4. July 7th, another walk with Miney on the fire road. Miney stopped short on this trail, there was a big pile of poo which looked fresh.  This was the second time I was thinking there could have been a bear nearby. We turned around and went back home. 

5. On this day I walked Miney to the lake, my Merlin App picked up a Green Heron flying away fussing. I did see where the Green Heron landed for a distant photo. 

6. July 11th, A foggy morning walk with Miney. Miney doesn't care about the weather, she just loves to take walks. 

7. July 16th, I have three choices of walks on the near by fire roads. I usually alternate from day to day, which way to go some trails are just a walk through the forest and two go to different sections of the lake.  Miney doesn't care, she just like to go.  She is very alert and is quick to see anything that moves, she evens looks up in the trees at the birds.  

8. Flashback August 2017, I have several images of the Belted Kingfisher. I usually hear the Kingfisher's loud rattle before I actually see it.  The female Belted Kingfisher has the chestnut belly band. Currently I have not seen or heard the Belted Kingfisher, it seems weird they have gone missing from the usual places I see and hear them. 

The male Belted Kingfisher has a blue-gray breast band. 

Another photo of the female Belted Kingfisher.

Update: Hubby is doing well with the dialysis, his blood work came back good. A busy morning, after dialysis this morning, we are stopping by to pay our respects to my DIL's granny she passed away on Tuesday and the funeral service is today. Granny will be missed, RIP Jennifer. I may be a little late visiting everyone!

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Saturday's Critters # 574

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Oct 7-9th, these photos are from our latest visit to Chincoteague Island NWR Virginia and Blackwater NWR, Cambridge Md. These are some of my favorite places to visit to see wildlife.  

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1. On the way to Chincoteague Island Virginia we pass by Blackwater NWR in Cambridge Maryland.  We drove through the refuge on the wildlife drive one loop before getting back on the road the Virginia. 

2. Chincoteague Ponies, the main attraction for visiting the Chincoteague Island NWR.

3. Belted Kingfisher

4.  Great Egret

5. Gulls, Cormorants and Terns. The Laughing Gull seems to be the most common gull seen at the refuge. The bottom photos shows the gulls with two different Terns, one of the Terns has more of a yellow bill and the other is really orange-red colored bill.  

6. There are a few Terns seen at this wildlife refuge.  The Royal Terns, Caspian Terns and the Forster's Tern. 

The Sanderlings were plentiful and fun to watch on the beach. They like to run back and forth to the water. 

7. Tricolored Herons

8. Chincoteague Island National Seashore.

9. Tom's Cove sunset, Chincoteague Island NWR 

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Saturday's Critters # 566

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!

A sad message and remembrance, I know a few bloggers remember Ken and his blog, he lived in Florida for awhile and posted about his walks there and on the birds that visited his back yard. He eventually moved to Connecticut to live with his daughter since he was so sick. Prayers and condolences to his family, Ken will be missed. Thanks to Diane of Lavender dreams blog for letting me know about Ken passing. 

Ken - Rosyfinch Ramblings:  https://mulryanfh.com/tribute/details/2253/Kenneth-Schneider-MD-MPH/obituary.html

1. These images are from Sept 1st, I saw around 4-5 Baltimore Orioles enjoying the Devil's Walking stick berries. The Peacock was sitting on the deck rail and the Pileated Woodpecker was on a tree outside the bedroom window. 

The male Baltimore Oriole, a few males and one female. The Baltimore Oriole is Maryland's state bird. I was happy to see these birds in my yard eating the berries.  

2. Sept 3rd, we stopped at the Susquehanna River State Park picnic area, at the pond area we saw a few slider turtles with a Green Heron. 

3. A closer look at one of the turtles and the Green Heron. 

4. Great Blue Heron at the Susquehanna River., 

5. Double-crested Cormorant sitting on a rock in the Susquehanna River.

6. Looking outside my dining room window, I saw the silhouette of the Ruby-throated Hummingbird enjoying the fuchsia flowers.

7. Sept 4th, below are the Cape May Warblers. The second photo is the more colorful male Cape May Warbler. 

Male Cape May Warbler, almost hidden by all the Devil's Walking Stick berries. 

8. Backyard bunny!

9. Sept 4th NCR bike trail, I believe this is a family of Eastern Phoebes. 

10. Sept 6th , backyard birds are the  Ruby-throated Hummingbird and Robins. The American Robins were enjoying the berries on the Devil's Walking Stick tree/bush. 

Later the same day we took our walk on the NCR trail, I noticed some American Goldfinches eating seeds off a plant nearby and the Belted Kingfisher was perched on a branch over the water. 

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Saturday's Critters # 559

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

Happy Labor Day weekend everyone!

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Our latest trip, July 31 through Aug 7th, hubby and I were on a trip to Alaska. Our first night was in Anchorage Alaska, we spent 3 nights close to Denali Nat'l Park and Preserve and the last 2 nights were in Glacier View Alaska. We flew on Alaska Airlines from BWI in Maryland to Seattle WA.  At Sea-Tac we had just over an hour for our next flight to Anchorage Alaska. Arriving in Anchorage we picked up our rental car and hit the road for some sightseeing. These are images from our first day in Anchorage. The daylight hours were long, the sun rose around 5:30 am and did not set until around 10:30. 

1. Only a 20 minute drive from our Anchorage hotel we drove on the Seward Hwy to Beluga Point, Cook Inlet. I read the Beluga whales could be seen in this area mid July through Sept when the salmon are plentiful. We did not see any whales but the views were beautiful. Sept 21, 2024 will be a day for the Beluga Count, open to the public. During the Sept 2023 count, 331 Beluga whales were counted. 

View from Beluga Point lookout, the Cook Inlet

2. Heading back toward our Anchorage hotel, we stopped at the Potters Marsh Coastal Refuge right off the Seward highway. The boardwalk is nice except part of it is right next to the Seward Hwy, with cars and trucks zooming by and the Alaska Railroad tracks, so it was very noisy.

3. A view of the coastal refuge, looking toward the Cook Inlet and the Seward Highway.

4. I am not sure when the birds in Alaska migrate south for the winter. We did not see many at the refuge.  I believe what we did see were the Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs and we saw the Wilson's Snipe.

5. I was told these birds could be the Greater Yellowlegs.

I wish I could balance this well on just one leg. 

6. We did see some ducks too, not sure which duck we saw here. 

Below are a Wilson's Snipe with another Yellowleg.

7. We did see the Belted Kingfishers, at one time I think there were 3 flying around us.  The bird on the right has a small fish in it's beak.

8. The Belted Kingfishers would fly around and then come back and land in the same bush. 

It was a long first day between flying and then driving to the Beluga Point, taking a walk on the refuge boardwalk. It was time for a dinner and check in to our Anchorage hotel for one night. My next Alaska post will be on our visit and stay near Denali National Park and Preserve.

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