Saturday's Critters # 666

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

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I am sharing photos from our nature walks, from my back yard and a bonus of the grandkids.

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"Try to pause each day and take a walk to see nature."

1. I have a section of the NCR bike trail where I love to walk and listen to the birds.  I always hear lots of birds and on this day the deer were running across the trail. No deer photos, they were quick to get away.  

2. Our morning walk on the local fire road, this time with hubby and Miney. I saw lots of mushrooms, I never pick them. I would not know which ones are safe to eat. 

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

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

3. Every other Sunday we try to visit the family and have lunch together. This day we celebrated our DIL's birthday.  Below Winnie our grand-dog is always happy to see us. 

Below Michael,is that a guilty look, eating some of Allie's birthday ice cream cake. 

The kiddies love to dance with their Pop-Pop.  

4. There are times my butterfly bushes look like they are moving from all the different butterflies hovering around the blooms.

5. Below are two Silver-spotted Skippers.

6. Below are two Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterflies  and one Black Swallowtail.

7. I am seeing lots of Swallowtail butterflies and I finally saw one Monarch. 

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 # 665

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

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

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

My usual mish-mash of photos, from our local walks, birds and critters in or around our yard.

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1. My walk with Miney on the Prettyboy fire road, the Merlin App is always on during my walks.  

I included one of my Mourning Dove photos with the screen shot of Merlin. 

Miney makes herself comfy on the bed.

2. Full moon setting seen from the dialysis center parking lot.

3. A lot of my photos are looking similar, my walks with Miney have been on the same local trail.  

I've been hearing a Broad-winged Hawk calling from the same area since the spring time.  I wonder if it could have a nest near the fire road where I walk with Miney. 

4. A view of the sky and Miney while on our local walk. 

I've been seeing a stray cat in our yard lately, not sure if it was dropped off or belongs to a neighbor.

Miney and the stray cat look similar with their black and white colors. 

5. Below are the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly, a Ruby-throated Hummingbird and the Black Swallowtail butterfly.

"Until you spread your wings, you will have no idea how far you can fly."

"Take time to be free like a butterfly."

I hope you enjoyed my birds, blooms and butterflies.  Miney is often a star of my blog. 

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 # 664

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

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

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

I am sharing a mish mash of photos, from our walks. 

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1. In our little neighborhood Prettyboy watershed is one of our favorite trails for walking. Hubby surprised me going 2 miles round trip on this walk, the trail goes even further up to 5 miles . The sun was not as bright due to the haze from smoke in our area. Birds were not singing much on this day, I did see a Gray Catbird on the trail in front of us. 

2. Below I watched a Tiger Swallowtail butterfly landing on our Lantana plant.  

On this day, Hubby, Miney and I took our walk on the NCR bike trail in Parkton.  I was surprised that the Bee Balm was still blooming. 

3. In my back yard, a female Cardinal was preening. The Black Swallowtail butterfly was seen on our Buddleia Butterfly bush. 

4. Another section of the NCR bike trail, a walk with Miney and Hubby too. 

A larger image of the Monarch Butterfly, I have not seen many of these this summer. 

5. In the yard and on my deck the butterflies and birds are enjoying our plants. 

The Ruby-throated Hummingbird sits close to the feeder, he will chase other birds away.

6. I am seeing 3 or more Ruby-throated Hummingbirds at my feeders. It seems like I am refilling the feeders more often now. I believe the babies/juveniles are now following the adults to the feeder. 

7. A Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly on the Buddleia bush. 

8. The American Goldfinches love the thistle sock, below are a male and female enjoying the seeds.

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 # 614

  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 mish-mash of photos from early August. 

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1. Aug 4th my walk with Miney to the lake. I found a Red-eared Slider Turtle and some Canada Geese across the lake. 

2. Aug 6th, our walk with Miney on the NCR trail. Hubby was walking with us part of the way. 

Below are 3 Black Vultures sitting on top of a large boulder next to the bike trail. Only part of one of the vultures is seen in between the other two. 

3. Aug 7th, A local Prettyboy fire road walk with Miney. 

4. Aug 8th, another walk to the lake with Miney. We saw some Double-crested Cormorants and the Slider Turtles were a distance away. A Northern Flicker perched high on a tree. 

I am sharing a closer look at the Northern Flicker in my yard, they are beautiful birds.

5. Aug 11th,  I have been enjoying watching the Ruby-throated Hummingbirds zooming around my yard. The male likes to sit right on top of the feeder, he guards his feeder from all the other hummingbirds. 

6. Below are the Monarch Butterfly, the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail and the Black Swallowtail. There are times our buddleia bush is filled with butterflies, looks magical. 

The Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly sharing a bloom with a Black Swallowtail. 

7. Flashback Florida 2017, The Roseate Spoonbill has a long flat spoon-shaped bill. This shot shows just how flat the bill is. The first three photos were taken at Lake Parker Park in Lakeland, Fl.

8. Immature Roseate Spoonbills are a paler pink. Their pink color is derived from their diet. They eat frogs and aquatic insects and very small fish. The next two images were taken at the Circle B Bar Reserve in Lakeland Fl.

The Roseate Spoonbills lately are showing up up and down the Atlantic Coast. I believe there were 4-5 in Delaware seen at Bombay Hook NWR and 5-6 in Southern Maryland. 

Sept 15th, there was some excitement in our neighborhood, with a few of our neighbors helping a public works employee having to fend off a bear. The worker was checking out the health of trees in the watershed when a bear was bluff charging her, my neighbors were out walking their dog and tried helping the worker. We are not sure, maybe the bear had cubs it was protecting. The worker had some scratches from a fall and was driven back to the street in a neighbor's 4 wheeler and a policemen with a gun escorted our neighbors back to the road. We were at lunch with the family and missed all this excitement. 

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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