Saturday's Critters # 531

 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!

My latest trip has been to my archives. I usually prepare several post in advance so I will always be a month or so behind.  At this time, Hubby and I have not been anywhere special due to the super cold weather or the rain/snow days. So I went back and visited previous posts, taking photos from the past 5 years during the month of February. Photos are of some of my favorite places, birds and critters. 

From a February 2019 post, I was reporting on our Florida trip and visit to the Green Cay Preserve. In the mosaic are the Painted Buntings, Swamphen, a Tricolored Heron, Little Blue Heron, Palm Tree, Purple Gallinule, Green Heron, Glossy Ibis and a Pied billed Grebe. Florida is one of my favorite places for birdwatching. 

Also a few more photos from our Green Cay Nature Center are the American Bittern and below is the Green Heron.

Also from Green Cay are my favorite Florida Bird, the Painted Bunting, seen below with a female Painted Bunting. 

Another bird seen at the Green Cay Nature Center are the Wood Storks, their nest were right next to the boardwalk.

From my February 2020 post, I am sharing some of my favorite back yard birds: the Eastern Bluebirds, Downy Woodpecker, American Goldfinch, more Goldfinches with a House Finch, another Male Bluebird, a Dark-eyed Junco, a White-throated Sparrow, male Downy Woodpecker and a Carolina Wren.

From Feb 2020, one of my all time favorite birds is the Eastern Bluebird. I feel lucky when they choose one of my birdhouses for their nest. 

From a February 2021 post, I have one of my favorite woodpeckers, in my yard is the Pileated Woodpecker. 

From my post in February 2022,  we were dog sitting for our son while his house was being built. 8 months of watching our grand-dogs Nibbles and Winnie at our house. They enjoyed their walks to the lake and on the fire roads. Also in the mosaic are Eastern Bluebirds and the lake. 

From February 2023, we were excited to see my lifer the Golden Eagle in our area at the Prettyboy reservoir. It hung around for a few weeks.  

Here is a larger view of the Golden Eagle. This Eagle is a dark brown with golden brown plumage on the nape.  The Golden Eagle is a beautiful raptor. 

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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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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.

Saturday's Critters # 479

 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!

These photos are all from my neighborhood which backs up to the Prettyboy Reservoir Watershed. Hubby and I made repeated visits to try and see the Golden Eagle. Just a short drive minutes from our house, we could visit early in the morning and go back later after lunch. You will see below, my persistence finally paid off.

1. Jan 29th,   These are all images from my repeated visits to where the Golden Eagle was being seen at our lake, the Prettyboy Reservoir.  

Click on images for better viewing!

2. The Ring-necked Ducks joined the party with the Common Mergansers and the Canada Geese near the boat dock. 

3. We know of at least 2 Bald Eagle nests in this area, so seeing a Bald Eagle in our neighborhood is a common sight. Below are a Bald Eagle and a juvenile Bald Eagle posed in the same tree on the same day. 

4. This Bald Eagle below was seen in the same area where we finally saw the Golden Eagle.  

5. Various birders posted on Ebird that there were 150 or more Ring-necked Ducks being seen near the boat dock. We saw a big group but I did not count them and I could not fit them all in one photo. 

6. Jan 30th, I feel like i should have drum roll happening here. After so many tries, I finally saw the Golden Eagle. The Golden Eagle is a lifer for me,  number 503 on my life list. Thankfully some photographers were there and showed us exactly where the Golden Eagle was perched high in a tree top. 

7. The Golden Eagle is dark brown with a golden brown plumage on their nape. You can see the golden plumage in my photos above, the head and back of the neck area. Their tails also have some white, you can see the white tail feathers above in the middle of the bottom row. 

8. The Golden Eagle stayed in this spot during the time of our visit. It walked along the branch and stopped to scratch.  

9. Feb 6th I have some of my back yard birds, they enjoy coming to the deck for some peanuts. Male and female Downy Woodpeckers, American Robin, Blue Jay, Red-bellied Woodpecker with a male Cardinal and a Tufted Titmouse. 

10. Hubby and I took a walk on the Mary Ann Furnace trail at Codorus State Park near Hanover Pa. As soon as I parked the car we saw a Belted Kingfisher from the car window, others birds we saw and heard were the Carolina Chickadees, Cardinals, Gulls, Killdeer, Robins and the Titmouse. 

I am a happy birder being able to see the Golden Eagle, a nice way to end the month of January.  

Thank you for sharing your critters and 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.

Here is my linky:

I am also linking up to Anni's blog party found here I'd Rather B Birding   Anni always has some beautiful birds to be seen on her blog, check it out! Also, I am also linking up to Heidrun's Mosaic Monday  I hope you can stop by and visit Heidrun and check out the Mosaic Monday post.