Saturday's Critters # 451

 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 variety of photos and critters from our daily walks. 

1. July 18th, the fire roads are like an obstacle course having to climb over fallen trees from a recent storm, at the lake we saw the usual Belted Kingfisher, a Great Blue Heron flying away and the Canada Geese. Of course the grand-dogs are with us on our walk. 

2. July 19th, hubby and I hiked close to 3 miles on the NCR bike trail. Near the parking area we saw lots of Bee Balm and along the trail were blooming Hostas.

3. July 19th NCR trail, I always hear more birds than I can actually see, but we did have a good sighting of a Great Blue Heron. 

4. July 19th, back at home I watched a few birds come for the peanuts I put out on my deck railing. Below are the Blue Jay, Red-bellied Woodpecker and a Tufted Titmouse. 

5. July 19th A Tufted Titmouse sunning or anting? I see 5-6 Tufted Titmouse coming and going grabbing a peanut.

6. July 20th, a few of my backyard birds stopping by for some peanuts. The Blue Jay, Tufted Titmouse, the Gray Catbird practically lives in our blueberry bushes.

7. July 21, on our backyard Buddleia, butterfly bush is the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail and the Hummingbird Moth. 

8. July 24th, hubby and I are still taking our morning walks, bird sightings have slowed quite a bit. I do hear birds but they are hidden in the trees. I have some images of a Goldfinch taking some dog hair for it's nest and the butterflies on the Buddleia. 

9. July 24th, An Eastern Tiger Swallowtail at the butterfly bush.

10.   July 24th , the American Goldfinch was taking Nibble's dog hair.  I assume they are working on a nest. It seems kind late in the summer for the nesting, maybe a second brood.

Bonus, July 31 my son and his family have moved into their new home. Below are hubby (Pop-Pop) with Mason and Wyatt below. The grand-dogs will be with us until my son is able to get a fence put around his yard, not sure how long the process will be. 

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Our World, My World

 Hello everyone!


 Happy August! Another month gone, July went by much too quickly.  Summer is going too fast for me. Here we are again taking another walk on the local fire road and to the lake.  Below are some Tiger Lilies, the fire road, the reservoir, Snapping Turtle and a Turkey Vulture.

Our walk and trail ends here, a nice view of the reservoir.  At this spot I could hear two Yellow-billed Cuckoos. One sounded close but I could not find it among all the trees and leaves. 

This Snapping Turtle surfaced on top of the lake, he looked huge to me.  

Some scenes from around the yard, our butterfly bushes are blooming and I am seeing the Clearwing Hummingbird Moths.

Black Swallowtail butterflies are seen at the butterfly bushes. 

Leaves are a changing already? 

Our neighbor has a pretty Mimosa Tree, we pass this tree on the way to the lake. The butterflies and hummingbirds love the Mimosa blooms. 

Back in 1990 we had this beautiful Mimosa tree in our back yard. At times it was filled with so many butterflies it looked like the branches were alive and moving.  We lost this tree, apparently they do not grow well in our area..We now have a Redbud tree growing in this same spot.

My world is quiet, we spend some time taking our walks with nature. I am trying out some new recipes,  I found found a quick way to dry herbs in the microwave.  I like the smell of sage right after it has been dried.  I hung some new curtains, I am doing the usual cleaning, blogging and reading my books.  We are doing well.  Take care and stay safe, happy and healthy.



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