Saturday's Critters #226

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!

Sharing a few of my yard birds like the Eastern Bluebird and a Fox Sparrow. 

The male Eastern Bluebird

Female Bluebird

A Fox Sparrow

The Easter Bunny

My Grand-dogs Nibbles and Chewy.

I appreciate and thank everyone who links up their post and for all the wonderful comments this past year ! 

Here is a list of my linky parties;

Also visit:  I'd-Rather-B-Birdin. Thanks to the gracious host: Anni.

Happy Saturday, enjoy your weekend!

My mish-mash

I have a list below of memes I am joining for this week, and to save time I am doing one post for all. They are all fun memes to participate in...I hope you can join in with the fun  and check out some of the participating posts. Special thanks to all the wonderful host and their memes, I hope you have some time to check them out.

I am sharing a mishmash of images.  On these cold winter days I enjoy walking on my treadmill in the warm house. I can watch the birds out the window as I walk. On one day I found a new bird for my Treadmill bird list, it was the Fox Sparrow.

The Fox Sparrow was a new bird for my treadmill window sightings. They are pretty sparrows, with lovely colors.

My list of treadmill birds below is growing, I am up to 25 now. I may have missed one or two. I have photos of most of them, just for my records and some I have already blogged about.

My Treadmill bird list

1. Northern Parula
2. Ovenbird
3. Wood Thrush
4. Mockingbird
5. Cardinal
6. Blue Jay
7. Dark-eyed Junco
8. White-throated Sparrow
9. House Sparrow
10. Screech Owl
11. Tufted Titmouse
12. Carolina Wren
13. Carolina Chickadee
14. Gray Catbird
15. Cooper's hawk
16. Red-bellied Woodpecker
17. Hermit Thrush
18. Veery
19. Mourning Dove
20. Common Grackle
21. Eastern Towhee
22. American Crow
23. Fox Sparrow
24. Field Sparrow
25. Northern Flicker..no photo

Updated Feb 9th, my latest Treadmill window bird was this Field Sparrow. He/she was hanging out with a big group of White-throated Sparrows.

Various sky shots from my yard and deck.

The view of the woods and sky next to our driveway.

Lately I am seeing a lot of White-throated Sparrows out my treadmill window. I am happy to have a nice view of the birds while I am on my treadmill.
Thanks for stopping by, I appreciate your visits and nice comments. Have a happy day and new week ahead!


As always thanks to the wonderful group of hosts listed below.

Thanks to Judith our  host of Mosaic Monday

Thanks to Michelle for hosting Nature Notes

Thanks to the hosting team of Our World Tuesday!

Thanks to Stewart for hosting Wild Bird Wednesday

Saturday's Critters #16

Saturday's Critters #15


Hello blogging friends,  time for Saturday's Critter party.  Link up your post and have some fun seeing all the different critters..   It is fun to visit with some new bloggers and some old blogging friends.  Either way, I hope everyone has a great day and enjoys all the critters.

These photos are from Monday March 17, St. Patricks Day.. I was home from work because of another snowstorm..

The snow brings many birds to my yard and feeders.. On this day, I saw a lot of Cardinals, WT Sparrow, Juncos, House Finches, my pretty Pine Warbler and a FOY Fox Sparrow seen in the first shot.

On the feeder are two female House finches and one pretty male House Finch.. The male Cardinal is eating off of the deck railing.

The red Cardinals really stand out in the white snow..I hope you enjoy my Cardinals...

An InLinkz Link-up

Thank you for linking up to the critter party. I appreciate the visits, comments and the support of my blogging friends..

To see more beautiful birds and cute critters

Also please visit:  I'd-Rather-B-Birdin. Thanks to the gracious host: Anni of I'd Rather-B-birdin. Also, sharing with Camera Critters. Thanks to Misty for hosting.

 Thanks for stopping by and  I wish everyone a happy weekend.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!! Sparrows Part 1

I am linking up with Wild Bird Wednesday and Nature Notes

December 31, 2013


 Wishing everyone all the best in 2014,  a HAPPY HEALTHY NEW YEAR!!

May each day of the New Year
bring happiness, good cheer
and sweet surprises
to you and all your dear ones!
Happy New Year!

For my post I am sharing some Sparrow's I have seen during various birding outings.. One bird (photos are from my archives) was a special Sparrow not usually seen in Maryland the Harris's Sparrow.

Above is a Dark-eyed Junco, White-throated Sparrow and the  Fox Sparrow

 This shot shows the dark head of the  Harris's Sparrow on the ground behind the Fox Sparrow. And along with the others I mentioned above.

One of my New Year goals.. I am trying to arranged my blog and labels showing all my life birds seen at different times of course..So, I may be sharing some archived birds on more recent post. 

Above are the White-throated Sparrow, Mourning Dove, Fox Sparrow, Harris's Sparrow, Dark-eyed Junco and a Robin.

I hope you enjoyed seeing these pretty sparrows and birds.  I hope everyone has a safe and happy New Year's.

Join in and post your birdies and to see more beautiful and wonderful bird photos please visit:
 Stewart's Wild Bird Wednesday and Michelle's  Nature Notes.  Thanks to our host Michelle our host Stewart.  Happy Birding and have a wonderful week!

Yardbirds

I am linking up with Camera Critters and I'd-rather-b-birdin

It's official Spring has Sprung, but where? Certainly not here, our temp's have been in the 30's and 40's, cold blustery days. This coming Sunday they are calling for another snow/rain event. Did Punxsutawney Phil get it wrong and are we due for more winter weather? Do you even believe a groundhog can predict the weather? I think I hear Florida calling my name.

For this weekend's critter and bird post I have some of my yardbirds from during the week.

One of my pretty White-throated Sparrows, they are a winter bird. I guess that is why I am still seeing them. They know winter has not left yet.

This is a Fox Sparrow, they are also another winter bird for my area. I guess they do not believe it is Spring either. They are pretty with their vivid rust streaks.

The American Goldfinches are one of my year round birds. They usually they wear their dull look in the winter months. 

The Pine Siskins are one of the irruptive year birds, they visit in the winter only during certain years. They are always welcome in my yard and at my feeders. They can even bring more of their friends.

The White-Breasted Nuthatch is another one of my year round birds, lately I have been seeing two chasing each other around. Not sure if it two males being territorial or if they are a couple.

One of the many female Cardinals I am seeing in my yard. Pretty soon the territorial couple will chase off all the other Cardinals and I will be left with the mating couple for awhile.

Not sure if this is the Mrs mate, I am seeing at least 5 or 6 male Cardinals in the yard. One will be the lucky guy!

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I caught the Bluejay at the birdbath, I guess he/she at sometime has to wash down all those peanuts they eat.

I hope you enjoy my yardbirds, I love to show them all off, they are so pretty. I am not sure how long my winter visitors will be sticking around..not much longer. Thanks for visiting my post and for the nice comments.

To see more wonderful critters and photos please visit and join in on the fun with Misty Dawn's Camera Critters and to see some lovely birds check out  I'd-rather-b-birdin

Thanks to Misty Dawn for hosting Camera Critters and to Anni the host of I'd rather-b-birdin. I wish everyone a great weekend and Happy Birding.

Backyard birds

I am linking up with  Green Day and Camera Critters and I'd-Rather-B-Birdin.

HAPPY VETERAN'S DAY weekend!

Hi, happy weekend everyone and this is a long weekend celebrating Veterans holiday on Monday.  The weather is so supposed to be beautiful warmer and sunny, Yea!! For this weeks post I am showing some of my yardbirds.  A few are my winter birds and they all seem to be arriving together like the Dark-eyed Juncos, Fox Sparrows, White-throated Sparrows , Pine Siskins and the Red-Breasted Nuthatches.

This is a large red maple tree in our front yard, I was able to stand under the branches to take this photos. The Red Maple is surrounded by Spruce trees and a few hemlock trees where the birds were fussing all around me. I do not think they liked me being in their space. The ground under the red maple is covered with tiny red maple saplings growing.

In the mosaic above, top left is a male Cardinal, Dark-eyed Junco, Bluejay, RedBellied Woodpecker, Goldfinch with a Cardinal, Goldfinch with a Pine Siskin, White-breasted Nuthatch, Fox Sparrow and a Tufted Titmouse.

 Usually,  the Cardinals are camera shy but I was able to snapped this shot before he saw me.

Bluejay with attitude!

Cute Tufted Titmouse with a peanut.

American Goldfinch and a Cardinal with their mouths full.

Chickadee trying to decide peanut or sunflower seed?

A pretty winter visitor the Fox Sparrow.

Above near the Red Maple and under the Spruce tree we have some young Red Maple growing a little taller with some pretty ferns.

These large spruce trees in our front yard are one of the reason why the birds hang around our yard. Next to the house is a rhododendron that has grown taller than our house. I love having the large pine trees, it is nice seeing green year round.

I hope you enjoyed my birds and more of the trees and our yard..
 To see more beautiful photos and cute critters please visit: Green Day  and Camera Critters and I'd-Rather-B-Birdin. Thanks to the gracious host Fiona of Green Day, Misty Dawn of Camera Critters and to Anni of I'd Rather-B-birdin.  Thanks for visiting my blog and post. I wish everyone a very safe and happy weekend.