Saturday's Critters # 432

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Hello and happy Saturday!

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Our weather has been all over the place, the temperatures can drastically change. It is officially Spring, even though it does not always feel like it. 

1.  On March 8th  our high temperature for the day was in the 70's, the bull frog sounds were all over our yard and at the neighbors. We found at least 6 of these frogs in our little pond. The next day our temperature was back down to a high in 40's. 

2. March 8th photos continue, more frogs and their eggs. 

3. March 8th, after walking around the yard we took the grand-dogs for a 2 mile round trip walk on the fire road. 

4. While walking on the fire-road I could hear the Pine Warblers calling. It is nice to hear them again, in my yard I also heard my first of the season Eastern Phoebe. 

 

5.  March 9th our temperatures dropped and we had some snow. I am not sure what happened to the frogs and their eggs in our pond. Can they handle freezing temperatures. I hope they survived. I happened to notice this Hawk sitting in a tree between our yard and the neighbors yard. I wonder if the hawk was eating frogs.

6. Below the photos show the same hawk possibly the Red-shouldered Hawk from March 9th and on March 11th I saw the Hermit Thrush out my front window. It likes sitting in one of our Rhododendron bushes next to the house. 

7. March 11th, a closer look at the Hermit Thrush outside my window. 

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Saturday's Critters #356

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 have some more of my yard birds and critters seen as of Sept 28 through Oct 3rd.  

 

1.  On Sept 29th I saw a male Black-throated Blue Warbler eating the Devil's walking stick berries. 

2. Butterflies seen on Sept 28th, top is the Red-spotted Purple Butterfly and on the bottom is the Monarch Butterfly seen on our Buddleia.

3. I've been seeing this big Ground Hog in our yard, one day it was on top of our fence eating the Morning Glories, another day it was in the side yard eating grass?

 

 4.  Sept 30th last sighting of least one Ruby-throated Hummingbird. It likes to sit in the Buddleia Bush near the feeder. After Oct 1st, I have not seen any Hummingbirds. I left the feeder up just in case.

 

 

 

 

5.  This Bull frog has been seen often at the edge of our little pond next to the turtle statue.  They are buddies..

 6.  Sept 30th, my back yard birds: Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Tennessee Warbler, Cape May Warbler and a possible Hermit Thrush.

 

 

Sept 30th, another  Scarlet Tanager, female or first year male?

 

 

October 3rd,  I was still seeing migrating warblers in my yard. Below is on the left a Tennessee Warbler, top right is the Cape May Warbler, bottom right is a female Black-throated Blue Warbler.

 

 

 

 

 I hope everyone enjoyed my back yard birds and critters. 

 

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