Saturday's Critters # 639

 Welcome to Saturday's Critters! Hello and Happy Saturday!

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

I am sharing recent back yard birds and critters and some critters seen in various national parks are from my archives.

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1. The Eastern Blue Bird has always been a favorite of mine, I love to see them visiting my yard.  It would be great to see them using my birdhouses for their nest. 

2. Below are two frequent visitors, the White-throated Sparrow and a Gray Squirrel. 

3. Blue Jays are another common bird visiting my yard, sorry about the photo quality, it was taken through a kitchen window. 

4. From my archives I am sharing some critters from our visits to various national parks. Below are some Elk seen in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. 

5. Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons are two of my favorite parks.  There were always critters to be seen. Below is a bull moose, seen off the Heron Pond and Swan Lake loop. The moose below was wearing a tracking collar, there was also a female moose and an elk standing nearby. 

The Buffalo at Yellowstone were plentiful.  It was nice to see the cute calves.  

We watched this Grizzly Bear not far from the Jackson Lake Lodge in the Grand Tetons National Park. 

6. Seen in the Rocky Mountain National Park we watched a mama moose with a calf.  

7. Everglades National Park, a great park to see critters and lots of birds.  

Near the Flamingo marina, Everglades National Park we saw the Crocodile. It is the only place were the Crocodiles and Alligators coexist. The American Crocodile has a v-shaped snout and the Alligators seen in the photo above have a u-shaped snout.  

The Manatees were also seen at the Everglades National Park Flamingo marina area.  

8. Shenandoah National Park, Skyline Drive.  It was always a treat to see a Black Bear during our visits to Shenandoah National Park. The mosaic below and next few photos are all from Shenandoah National Park. 

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Saturday's Critters # 591

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 sharing various images, the first photo my new header is a view of the Gunpowder River below the Prettyboy Dam, other images are from my walks and our backyard, the birds, critters and our dog Miney.

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1. March 2nd,  my mosaic has photos of the sunrise, a view of the reservoir from our local fire road, Miney the dog, a squirrel eating the bird food and a Carolina Chickadee on the birdbath ends with the sunset. 

2. March 2nd, the Gray Squirrels are regular visitors to our deck railing they manage to eat a lot of the suet nuggets I put out for the birds. 

3. March 2nd, one of my yard birds the Carolina Chickadee. 

4. March 5th, our morning walk with Miney on the local fire road. I heard the usual birds on this walk. I did see two Pileated Woodpeckers, flying away.  I missed getting their photo.

5. March 6th, we were back walking on the NCR rail to trail. It is one of our favorite spots for walking, easy flat walking we can go further and it is next to the river.

6. March 6th, on the way home from the bike trail we road past the Friendly Farms pond, I notice a flock of Ring-necked Ducks. 

7.  Flashback, since April 10th was Gopher Tortoise day. I am sharing some of Gopher Tortoise photos from our Florida trips. These are from Dec 2020, a St Augustine park. 

8. A Florida 2015 flashback, I am sharing another photo of the Gopher Tortoise hubby and saw at one of our many Florida park visits.

Another Florida flashback from April 2015, one of my favorite Florida birds seen was the Sora at the Viera Wetlands, Melbourne Florida, The Sora is a small bird in the rail family. The Sora has a yellow bill and walks through the wetlands similar to a chicken.

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 # 372

 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 left eye has been bothering me, I see floaties and streaks of light. So I decided to cut back on my computer time to rest my eyes. I hope my eye is back to normal soon.  I am sharing some of my back yard birds and critters.. I see lots of gray squirrels, they take over and can empty my bird feeders quickly.

1. Jan 17th , I heard the Blue Jays and other birds fussing outside my window.  I can see why they were upset,  this Red-shouldered Hawk was sitting in our backyard tree.

2. It flew off after I was able to take a few photos, I am sure I ruined this hawk's dining plans.  

In the news, recently an Eurasian Goldfinch has been seen at feeders hanging outside a Columbia Md nature store.  I would love to see this Eurasian Goldfinch but I am no longer chasing birds. Even if I went to see this bird, I am not sure if this could be considered a lifer? Most likely this Eurasian Goldfinch is an escapee, someone's pet?  I will share my pretty American Goldfinches seen at my feeder. 

 

3. Two American Goldfinches outside my window. 

4.  I am constantly battling the Gray Squirrels, I have given up. I think they eat more of my bird seed than my birds are able to eat.  

5.  At the feeders, a Downy Woodpecker in front, a Hairy Woodpecker in the middle and last is a Red-breasted Nuthatch.

6. Another look at the Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers.  They look so similar. The Hairy Woodpecker is overall larger in size, the head and body is larger also the bill is thicker and longer.

7.  The squirrels just sit in the feeder and feast on the bird seed.  

 

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