Saturday's Critters # 380

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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 are various photos, birds and critters seen during our last visit Feb 23-25th to Ocean City, Assateague and Indian River Delaware.

1. Top photo a large flock of Long-tailed Ducks were hanging out at the Indian River Inlet Delaware. Last week I shared a closer view of the Long-tailed ducks. Bottom two photos are in Ocean City Maryland which was our second stop. 

2. A seal was seen at the Indian River Inlet, Delaware. 

3.  Male and females Bufflehead ducks. 

4. Sanderlings, Ruddy Turnstones and Purple Sandpiper seen at the Ocean City Inlet, Maryland. 

5. Below these were all seen at the Ocean City Inlet, Maryland:  Red-breasted Merganser, Loon, Surf Scoter, a group of Common Eider with Red-breasted Merganser, Long-tailed Duck, a group of Red-breasted Mergansers, a group of Sanderling, Purple Sandpipers and Ruddy Turnstones, Gulls and Golden Retrievers running on beach. 

6. Common Eider and Brant Geese hanging out near the jetty. 

7.  Brant Geese at the Ocean City Inlet Maryland

8. The Assateague ponies are always a treat to see.  

We always enjoy these short getaways to the shore and beach. The Blackwater wildlife refuge will be seen on a upcoming post. 

 

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March 8-10th, these are some images from our little getaway to the Delaware shore and Ocean City Md.  we enjoyed walking the beach, watching the surfers and the birds at the Delaware Indian River Seashore Park. Later that day we enjoyed the sunset at Ocean City's inlet and we watched the moon rising over the ocean. 

Below, me and my shadow on the beach in Delaware, Long-tailed Ducks, Common Loon, a view of the beach and surf, jetty, Bufflehead ducks, beach with people with their dog and gulls and some Brant Geese. 

Common Loon? We saw a few that looked young like the Loon below.

 Beach at Indian River Inlet

 A group of Bufflehead ducks.

Me and my shadow at Ocean City, inlet, amusement rides, moon rising March 8th and  Black Scoters.

Sunset at Ocean City's inlet.

 Black Scoter, sunset at Ocean City inlet, almost full moon March 8th, moon reflecting on ocean.

The almost full moon, March 8th, the actual full moon took place on March 9th.

 Moon reflection at Ocean City, Md.

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I still have tons of Florida photos but I today am sharing some photos of our recent trip to Ocean City Maryland. It is fun getting away to the beach during the off season. We always check the weather first and the hotels are cheaper off season. The beach is just about empty of people, the gulls are still around.  You must know me by now, I can not go any where without looking for birds, I was hoping for a Snowy Owl but no luck there. We did see lots of sea ducks and cute little shorebirds.

Our first stop near the beach was at the Indian River Inlet, I have seen a Snowy Owl there in the past. We did see 30 or more Long-tailed Ducks, we watched these ducks fly up the inlet, land on the water and float back down. They repeated this countless times while we were there. 

The Long-tailed Ducks flying up the Indian River Inlet.

The bridge over the Indian River Inlet, Delaware.

Gulls resting on the jetty at Indian River Inlet.

Brant Geese were on the beach @ Delaware Seashore State Park

Oh, what a beautiful day! I am thankful for beautiful winter days.

I think these are the female White-winged Scoter?

More Long-tailed Ducks, Black Scoter, and Bufflehead.

More White-winged Scoters?

Common Loon or Red-throated Loon?

Lots of Bufflehead females, young male and one adult male almost hidden on far right.

A peek at a Bufflehead, the Black Scoter in the middle and just the head of a Long-tailed Duck. 

The pretty sky and beach @ Delaware Seashore State Park

I am thankful for our little getaways and trips.
I am Thankful, Grateful and Blessed!
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Saturday's Critters #258

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!

I still have some more birds we saw at the Edwin B. Forsythe NWR in New Jersey.  Birds seen were the male and female Wood Ducks, House Finch, Clapper Rail and we saw a large flock of Brant Geese, Mallards, American Black Ducks, Brant Goose, Great Blue Heron, 


The male wood duck is a beauty! 

This looks like the female wood duck below. 

A male House Finch. 

You really have to look for the 2 Great Blue Herons chasing each other in this photo below. The tree colors are beautiful. 

Pretty sure this is the Clapper Rail, another great reason to be at the refuge during low tide. These secretive birds come out into the open looking for things to eat in the mud. 

Sorry, my photos of the Brant Geese are not the best. They were too far away, I wanted record a photo to show I did see them this day.

I am not sure about this Sparrow, possibly a SeasideSparrow? I do see a little line of yellow above the eyes. Any help is appreciated. 

This Great Blue Heron had a fishing spot all to himself until these ducks came by and would not leave. They swam up and down in front of the Heron.  They were Mallards and some Black Ducks. 

Lots of shorebirds, I am guessing Dunlin and maybe some Plovers? The taller birds could possibly Black-bellied Plovers?

Below Eastern Box Turtles and Praying Mantis.  I went years without seeing a Praying Mantis, on this day I saw two Mantis right on the path to the visitor center.

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Saturday's Critters #188

Welcome to Saturday's Critters!

If you love critters 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!


For this week's post I am sharing some birds we saw while visiting Sequim and Port Angeles Washington. This was our second trip to this area of Washington state, the last trip was back in 2015. During our visit we went to a few birding spots like the Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge and the Dungeness Spit, Helen Pond at Three Crabs Road and the Ediz Hook in Port Angeles.

The Dungeness Spit located in Sequim at the Dungeness National Wildlife refuge.

At the Dungeness Nat'l Wildlife Refuge we had to wait out a little rain before we hiked the trail down to the Dungeness Spit. Below are photos of the trail thru the woods, a Rough Skinned Newt, a view of the Dungeness Spit on a cloudy day, driftwood, two Black Oystercatchers, a large group of Cormorants and maybe with a few Mergansers. We found another Rough-skinned Newt on the way back up the trail.

There were signs warning hikers about these Rough-skinned Newts that produce a toxin from their skin. The toxin could irritate your eyes or skin if you should happen to pick up or touch one of these Rough-skinned Newts. They could be seen on the trail or crossing the trail as we walked.

I have a lifer from my 2017 Washington trip it is the Western Sandpiper seen below with the Semipalmated Plover.

Semipalmated Plovers and some Western Sandpipers were seen along Three Crabs Road in Sequim.

We spent the night in Port Angeles Washington and we visited the Ediz Hook, another spit of land. Here we saw a big flock of Brant Geese and lots of Rhinoceros Auklets.

Lots of Brant Geese at the Ediz Hook spit in Port Angeles Washington.

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Ocean City, Maryland

I am linking up with Skywatch Friday  and Good Fences
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I heard on the news that the groundhog did NOT see his shadow, now if you can believe him we will have an early spring. I am already wishing it was spring, I seem to wish the time away during the winter months. Our 23 inches of snow is shrinking, the latest day of rain and warmer temps helped to get rid of the white stuff. It is hard to believe on Feb 1st, my son will have been in his own home for two years. Gee, where does the time go?

I am behind sharing some photos, these are more images from our most recent trip to Ocean City in early January. We spent two nights visiting the Delaware shores, Ocean City and Assateague Island, Maryland.

Ocean City, Maryland inlet is a hotspot to see Loons and other seabirds. We also saw a dolphin.

Plenty of Loons around the Ocean City inlet.

A view looking toward the bay

We had a sighting of a large flock of Brant Geese near the inlet.

Pretty view of the sky and reflection and a fence shot at the inlet.

More Loons, we saw 6-8 Loons hanging at the Ocean City Inlet.

It was a cold winter day, a little windy but always nice to have the beach practically to ourselves. We did share the beach with some gulls and pigeons.

Find JOY in the little things. I hope you enjoyed our trip to Ocean City, Md. Thanks for visiting and for the nice comments.

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Thanks to Theresa @ The Run*A*Round Ranch for hosting Good Fences this past year it has been fun looking for fences for my post. Also, thank you to Sylvia, Yogi  and Sandy for doing such a great job at hosting Skywatch Friday.    I wish everyone a happy day and weekend ahead..