Saturday's Critters # 571

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

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These photos are from August 22nd, day two at the Bombay Hook NWR in Delaware. This wildlife refuge always seems to have a great variety of birds to see. 

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1.Below are mostly Great Egrets, possible juvenile Little Blue Herons and a couple of American Avocets.

2. On the edge of the pond are a group of Mute Swans.

3.  I saw one Black-necked Stilt with a few Egrets.

4. Two Bald Eagles in the distance and closer to the drive was a group of Double-crested Cormorants and an Egret.

5. We saw the two Sandhill Cranes, these birds drew a lot of attention from birdwatchers and photographers.

Now there are 5 Sandhill Cranes being seen.

6. A Great Blue Heron looking beautiful. 

7. A fox was seen walking toward our car. I like it's shadow.

8. Near one of the ponds was a group of Black-crowned Night Herons, most of these looked like juveniles. There was one Green Heron hanging out on the top photo far left. 

9. How many night herons do you see below?

10. Here is a closeup of the Green Heron. 

11. An Osprey flew and landed very close to the Night Herons and the Green Heron. 

Further along the wildlife drive we saw a group of shorebirds and I believe there may be some Yellowlegs and American Black ducks in this group below. 

I hope you enjoyed my visit to the wildlife refuge. 

My most recently finished puzzle, I love these birds.

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 # 570

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!

These photos are from our Aug 21-22 visit to Delaware and the Bombay Hook NWR. This wildlife refuge always seem to have lots of birds. Some are birds are breeders and some are just visiting. My first post for this getaway is here Black-bellied Whistling Ducks in Delaware . 

1. Top left American Goldfinch, possible juvenile Cooper's Hawk, Yellowlegs, Monarch Butterfly, juvenile Little Blue Heron, I am guessing the last bottom right is an Eastern Phoebe. 

2. Bombay Hook NWR is always a good place to see the American Avocets. 

3. Blue Grosbeak looking handsome.

Eastern Kingbird and the top photo includes an American Goldfinch. 

4. Various shorebirds, I see a few Black-bellied Plovers. 

5. Various shots of the Great Egrets, there may be some Snowy Egrets mixed in. 

6. We did not have to go to Florida to see the Sandhill Cranes, these two spent most of the summer at Bombay Hook NWR. 

7. Sandhill Crane couple.

8. These two birds caused a traffic jam on the wildlife drive. 

9. Great Blue Heron with lunch.

10. Avocets, Great Egret and possibly Dunlins in flight.

I hope you enjoyed my photos from Bombay Hook NWR, it is one of my favorite places to see the wildlife.

Bonus image: my two grandsons were dinosaurs for Halloween. They looked so cute!

Hubby and I have both been sick this week, so I have missed visiting blogs this week. I hope we are both back to normal, it's not fun being sick. 

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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Happy Monday!

 Wishing everyone a great day and a happy new week!

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Bombay Hook NWR, Delaware

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Saturday's Critters # 538

 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!

It's the first Saturday in April and time is just flying by. I am still behind sharing photos, these are from our getaway to the Maryland shore back in Feb 8-10 2024. Now I am hoping to see our Spring-Summer birds return to my yard and neighborhood.

1. Mosaic is mainly showing the Tundra Swans, a native swan in Maryland. They are seen in the winter months. 

2. In the photo below, there the Tundra Swans, Canada Geese, a few Northern Pintails and a few other ducks across the pond.

3.  The wildlife refuge has always some Bald Eagles, either flying around or perched in a tree.

4.  A male and female Northern Shoveler. 

5. Below are a group of Northern Pintails. 

6. The Tundra Swan flock was flying in to land on the pond. 

7. We saw a few Great Blue Herons around the wildlife drive and refuge. 

8. Leaving Bombay Hook NWR we drove past a field with a huge group of Snow Geese.  I was able pull over on the side of the road to take a few photos.  

9. A closer look at the Snow Geese in the field. 

10. Another puzzle finished, one of my favorites with the polar bear and northern lights. 

Extra photo: Easter with the grandson and family.

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 # 510

 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!

This post is part 2 of our visit to Bombay Hook NWR in Delaware. Since we spent the night in Dover Delaware we were able to visit the wildlife refuge early in the morning.  I like seeing the refuge during the low tide also the lighting is different on the pools. 

1. I love seeing the large groups of Snowy Egrets and the Great Egrets, we also saw a Tricolored Heron hanging out with the Great Egrets and a few Green Herons. The American Goldfinch was eating some seeds off a nearby plant, American Avocets look busy grooming themselves, a Common Moorhen was hidden in the wetland grasses. In the last row, I was undecided if I was seeing the Purple Martins or Swallows, someone listed Bank Swallows on ebird for this sight. A pair of Bald Eagles were seen off in the distance near their nest and last are more Egrets with a Glossy Ibis. 

As always, click on images for larger viewing.

Snowy Egrets, Great Egrets and the American Avocets. 

Below are the Great Egret and a Tricolored Heron.  The Tricolored has the long bill and a white belly.

The Green Heron, one of my favorite herons.  One of the smaller herons only 17 inches tall. 

The male Indigo Bunting, is a pretty color blue.

We enjoyed watching this Indigo Bunting, calling out his familiar sound.

A pretty male American Goldfinch, found some seeds to eat. At this spot I saw a movement out of the corner of my eye, it was a Least Bittern. The Least Bittern disappeared into the grasses, it was too fast for my camera but a great sighting. 

The low tide brings out the Clapper Rails, foraging in the muddy area of the wetlands. 

The two Clapper Rails went off in different directions and soon disappeared in the grasses. 

The Semipalmated Plover is a cutie! 

We enjoyed our picnic lunch in the car while watching these two Green Herons at the edge of the pond. 

A front view of the Green Heron, it looks comical. 

A view of the pool, way off in the distance are lots of little shorebirds looking like little brown spots, closer in are the American Avocets, Snowy Egrets, Great Egrets and the Glossy Ibis.

Bombay Hook NWR is a great place to see the birds,  many are breeders and are here during the summer. 

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