Saturday's Critters # 627

  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!

"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas! Do you have a wish for Christmas? I have a wish besides peace and love, joy and good health for us all.

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Not a Christmasy post, my wish for this Christmas to see some of these birds once again.  From my archives I have a few favorite lifers, they were seen either in Maryland parks and in my back yard. I was lucky to see these birds, I have not seen most of these birds for a long time.  I wonder why they have disappeared. 

My sighting of a Fox Sparrow in my back yard. 

It has been awhile since I have seen a Fox Sparrow. 

Common Redpoll was seen at the Black Hills Regional Park, Boyds Maryland .

 A rare sighting of the Evening Grosbeaks in my yard, I had 3-4 show up at my feeders on Oct 25-26th, 2012. 

The Pine Siskins are not a rare bird, but there were years I saw many of them at my feeders in the winter months. It has been years since I have seen one in my yard. 

The Indigo Bunting is seen and heard in my yard and neighborhood. One of my favorite summer birds. 

The Indigo Bunting was one of my favorite yard birds, it is a lovely bird.  

The Rose-breasted Grosbeaks were another bird that would appear in the spring as they were migrating north?  It has been years since I have seen one in my yard.  

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.

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Saturday's Critters #107

Saturday's Critters #107

I hope everyone has recovered from their New Year's Celebration. Again I wish everyone all the best in 2016..

Happy Saturday, it's time to share your critters and post. Any kind of critter will do, even a new or old post.. I appreciate everyone who is linking in with this week's critter party.

I am sharing a few of my favorite lifers seen during the 2015 year. My lifer list is now 455. Considering how many birds are in the world 455 is a small number, I can say it was lots of fun looking for these new birds and seeing new places.

The Common Redpoll seen in a local Maryland park in January 2015

The Reddish Egret seen at Merritt Island NW in Florida April 2015

The Florida Scrub Jay seen in various spots in Florida April 2015

The Gull-billed Tern seen at the Edwin Forsythe NWR in New Jersey, July 2015

The Varied Thrush seen at the HOH Rainforest, Washington Oct, 2015

The Black Turnstone seen in Ediz Hook, Port Angeles, Washington Oct 2015.

The next three images are for Teresa's  of Eden Hills and her new meme and information can be found here  Friday Hunt . I hope you can join in and have some fun with her fun photo hunt.

For the 1st week of January.
1. letter "A"
2. week's favorite
3. Celebrate

My first entry for the letter "a" below.

For my "A" I am sharing the Rhinoceros Auklet seen during our whale watching trip out of Port Angeles, Washington. The Rhinoceros Auklet is one of 6 Auklets that can be seen in or around the Pacific Northwest or up to Alaska. Auklets are marine birds with short wings,webbed feet and compact bodies.

2. For my weeks favorite photo below

My favorite photo of the week was of this piggie squirrel on my deck railing. He just looks so cute.

3. Celebrate with my Great-nephew Neill

My family celebrated Christmas at my niece's house, it was the last year our family will be living in the same state. These are my three images for Teresa's new meme Friday's Hunt. Thanks to Teresa for hosting.

Above are my first yard birds seen on the morning of  Jan 1st 2016. Mourning Doves, Tufted Titmouse, White-throated Sparrow, Dark-eyed Junco, House Sparrow, Cardinals, Carolina Chickadee, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Blue Jay, Pine Siskin, White-breasted Nuthatch

I am looking forward to seeing new birds at home or during our travels in 2016. I hope you enjoyed my images and my favorite new lifers from 2015..

An InLinkz Link-up

As always thanks for the visits and the nice comments. I also thank everyone who is linking up and sharing their critters.. Happy Saturday, have a great weekend!

To see more beautiful birds and cute critters, check out these two memes below.

Also visit:  I'd-Rather-B-Birdin. Thanks to the gracious host: Anni.  Also check out Camera Critters. Thanks to Misty for hosting this fun meme.

Common Redpoll

Linking up with Wild Bird Wednesday and Nature Notes

This was my second try for my latest lifer..the Common Redpoll.  I always watching the Maryland listserve and saw that the Common Redpoll was still being seen at a local park in Montgomery County, Maryland.. I went once and missed seeing this bird by 30 minutes.  I had to give it another try for this cute bird.

A brownish grey-finch with dark streaks and a red patch on its head. This is a female, the males have more red on their breast. It looks a little like the Pine Siskin to me..

A partial migrant moves southward in late autumn and stays until mid March or April. As you can see it is a seed eater.. From what I have heard there have been more sightings of the Redpoll in the Mid-Atlantic states..

This bird seemed to like hanging around some other birds like the Pine Siskins and Golfinches which are seen above..

I was happy to add this cute Redpoll to my life list, which is now at 448 lifers.

I hope you enjoyed my wild bird post.. Till next week's wild bird post.. I wish you happy Birding and have a wonderful week!

Join in and post your birdies and to see more beautiful and wonderful bird and nature photos please visit:

 Stewart's Wild Bird Wednesday and Michelle's  Nature Notes

Thanks to all of our hosts... Michelle for Nature Notes and Stewart of Wild Bird Wednesday.

  Happy Birding and have a wonderful week!