Showing posts with label Cliff Swallow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cliff Swallow. Show all posts

Saturday, July 26, 2025

Saturday's Critters # 606

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 am continuing with a mish-mash of photos from the end of May and beginning of June. 


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1. May 26th,  Pretty Dam and reservoir, a good spot to watch the Cliff Swallows that nest on the dam. 




A walk with Miney on the Prettyboy fire road. A nice day for a walk, it was a pretty sky day. 






2. May 29th, another local fire road walk to the lake with Miney. As usual I hear more birds than I can see, I did find an Ovenbird. The photo is blurry but you can see the black stripes on the bird's head. 







3. Below are a few mosaics from May 30th, first are images of our walk with Miney on the NCR trail. The Mountain Laurels were blooming nicely. We saw a White-tailed Deer across the river. 





Back in the yard, the Eastern Bluebirds were coming and going from the birdhouse.





A Great-crested Flycatcher perched on our deck railing and posed for some photos.







4. June 1st, another day and another walk with Miney.  The peacock still comes for visits. This time he was hanging outside our basement door.  




June 1st, the Peacock found a spot by our basement door, Miney can not see him there so the bird feels safe.  






5. June 2nd, to keep a record of my backyard birds. I am sharing photos of an Eastern Kingbird, I am not sure what is in it's beak. The photos are not so good taken from a bedroom window.







6. June 3rd, Another walk on the local NCR bike trail with Miney. We saw a deer on the trail, luckily Miney did not see it, she pulls hard when she sees other critters. I captured one of two Damselflies hanging out near a picnic bench. A Black Rat snake was hanging on a fence over the creek and an American Goldfinch was perched high in a tree. 





The Merlin App from our NCR trail walk, I was surprised it picked up a Green Heron.  I have seen the Green Herons around the trail and bridge. 





Miney on the bike trail, she gets excited to see people and other dogs or wild critters on the trail.  







7. Flashback photos from our Ireland trip May 2023. The Eurasian Robin was one of my favorite Ireland birds.




Another sighting of my favorite Ireland bird the Robin was found on the grounds of the Kilkenny Castle.




Seeing sheep was a common sight while driving around the Ireland countryside. 




Update on hubby: Thanks so much for the kind words and healing prayers. On July 21st, hubby had his 1st visit with the home therapy. On July 22nd,  was his first session of outpatient dialysis. He seems to have his appetite back, he lost a lot of weight while he was in the hospital. He will be on a renal diet, I am sure he will not like it but I will be watching him closely. 



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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Thursday, June 13, 2019

Happy Thankful Thursday

Hello and Happy Thursday! 

This  is my last post on our Finger Lakes NY trip. The Taughannock Falls SP was our third hike on this day and the last waterfall to see. This waterfalls was located in Trumansburg not far from Ithaca New York. 


 The Taughannock Falls is the tallest free-falling waterfall east of the Mississippi with a drop of 215 feet.  This was an easy flat trail to the bottom of the waterfalls.  We drove to the top to the waterfall overlook. The view of the falls from the overlook is the photo right below. 




The stream flows into the Cayuga Lake. 



The stream bed is made of limestone. 


Tall cliffs were seen along the river up to the waterfall.

"The sky is the daily bread of the eyes" Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Nature's beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude"


Taughannock Falls





While hubby was soaking (not literally)  in the waterfall,  I was watching these swallows fly around the water and tall cliffs at the waterfall.


I checked the Ebird species listed for this park and there were 3 Swallow species listed, The Bank Swallow, Northern Rough-winged Swallow and the Cliff Swallow.  I am not sure which swallow I have photos of on this post. Could it be any of the swallows I listed above?


Not sure of the swallow species below, which one?  I also had a quick glimpse of a Belted Kingfisher. 



I am very blessed, thankful, grateful for the opportunities I have had. 

I am thankful for flat easy hikes. 

I am thankful for all your visits and comments. 


Thank you Michelle for hosting Thankful Thursday. 
Thank you to Yogi the host of   Skywatch Friday



Thanks so much for visiting and for your nice comments on my previous post. Have a happy day!

Happy Monday!

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