Saturday's Critters # 610

 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 a mish-mash of photos from early July. I have not been far from home for birdwatching outings. My walks with Miney are close to home since my hubby can not do any long walks. Hubby started having Dialysis for his kidney disease on July 14th and now it's Aug 23, so it's been over a month. The treatment seems to be going well, as well as can be expected. 

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1. July 2nd, at this time I was seeing some bunnies all sizes in our yard. The baby bunnies are so cute. They are scared of Miney and they run away if she is too close. 

2. July 4th, a walk with Miney on the fire road at Prettyboy. 

3. July 5th, a back yard Carolina Wren was singing loudly. 

4. July 7th, another walk with Miney on the fire road. Miney stopped short on this trail, there was a big pile of poo which looked fresh.  This was the second time I was thinking there could have been a bear nearby. We turned around and went back home. 

5. On this day I walked Miney to the lake, my Merlin App picked up a Green Heron flying away fussing. I did see where the Green Heron landed for a distant photo. 

6. July 11th, A foggy morning walk with Miney. Miney doesn't care about the weather, she just loves to take walks. 

7. July 16th, I have three choices of walks on the near by fire roads. I usually alternate from day to day, which way to go some trails are just a walk through the forest and two go to different sections of the lake.  Miney doesn't care, she just like to go.  She is very alert and is quick to see anything that moves, she evens looks up in the trees at the birds.  

8. Flashback August 2017, I have several images of the Belted Kingfisher. I usually hear the Kingfisher's loud rattle before I actually see it.  The female Belted Kingfisher has the chestnut belly band. Currently I have not seen or heard the Belted Kingfisher, it seems weird they have gone missing from the usual places I see and hear them. 

The male Belted Kingfisher has a blue-gray breast band. 

Another photo of the female Belted Kingfisher.

Update: Hubby is doing well with the dialysis, his blood work came back good. A busy morning, after dialysis this morning, we are stopping by to pay our respects to my DIL's granny she passed away on Tuesday and the funeral service is today. Granny will be missed, RIP Jennifer. I may be a little late visiting everyone!

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Saturday's Critters # 596

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

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I am sharing my mish-mash of photos, our walks with Miney, my back yard birds and a visit to see our grandchildren. 

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1. March 22nd, another walk to the Prettyboy reservoir to see the Eagles nest. Our second time to check out the nest only to find it empty again. 

2. March 22nd, while we were out walking with Miney the Peacock came for a visit. Who left the gate open? The peacock was sitting on our deck railing when we got home. 

3. March 25th, fire road walk with Miney to the lake

4. March 25th, the Peacock was back sitting on the swing set. 

5. March 29th, my back yard birds: the Peacock, Eastern Bluebird, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Hairy Woodpecker, Dark-eyed Junco and the White-throated Sparrow. 

6. March 29th, on the NCR trail with Miney. 

7. March 30th, we took Miney with us to visit with our son, DIL and our grandchildren. Winnie the Corgi had fun playing with Miney. 

8. A flashback looking at a couple of my Florida favorite birds seen in a couple of favorite places.

Flashback images are from May 2015  Gatorland in Kissimmee Florida I am sharing a Cattle Egret.  There was a large breeding marsh at the Gatorland Park,  my main reason for visiting was to see all the heron and egrets in their rookery. 

From March 2017, a Green Heron seen at the Circle B Preserve near Lakeland Florida. 

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 # 573

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

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I am trying to catch up with my photos, these are from my backyard, our walks on the local fire roads and to the lake, Hashawha Nature Center and the local NCR bike trail.

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1. September is the time to see the Warblers in my backyard, they love the berries on the Devil's Walking Stick. Below are the Cape May Warbler, female Cardinal and a young deer in my yard.

2. The Lantana plant and the Fuchsia were looking beautiful throughout September, a female Scarlet Tanager was seen at the same berries.  The Hummingbird and butterflies love these plants.

3. The mosaic below is made of photos from our walk at the Hashawha Nature Center, Below are the American Robin, House Finch, Deer , Groundhog, female House Finch, Gray Catbird and a unknown warbler hiding behind some leaves.

4. The Eastern Bluebirds, 4-5 bluebirds were hanging around the birdhouse. They might use the house during the colder nights to stay warm.

5. Sept 22, our walk to the Prettyboy Reservoir. We saw a Green Heron and just a few leaves were starting to turn pretty colors. 

The Green Heron look like it was hiding in the bushes on the lake shore.

6. September 23rd, I saw a female Rose-breasted Grosbeak at the Devil's Walking Stick berries. 

7. Below several mosaics are all from Sept 24, my backyard birds.  The Hermit Thrush was enjoying the berries. I saw two together on the Devil's Walking Stick, bottom left photo. 

On the same day as above and at the same back yard berries, are the Northern Parula, Cape May Warbler, Brown Thrasher and a female Scarlet Tanager. 

Below same day Sept 24 in my backyard, are the Northern Flicker and the Ruby-throated Hummingbird.

Again on the same day Sept 24, I found the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker eating the berries. 

The Peacock came for a visit to our deck, perched on the deck railing.

8. Sept 26, below more birds at the berries, the Black-throated Blue Warbler, Mourning Doves, Hermit Thrush, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, American Robin, Tennessee Warbler and a Northern Flicker.

9.  Not the best photo, looking through my bedroom window blind at the Pileated Woodpecker. Another bird that loves those berries on the Devil's Walking Stick.

10. Sept 29, the cottontail bunnies love our yard. I saw this one on our driveway.

Sept 30th, I heard the Gray Catbird knocking on our den window.  I took a few photos of the Catbird sitting in the Rhododendron right outside the window.

This post takes me through the end of September, I am still behind sharing my critter photos.  I hope you enjoyed the birds and wildlife.

Today is my son's birthday, Happy Birthday Brian!🎈🎂

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Saturday's Critters # 571

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

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These photos are from August 22nd, day two at the Bombay Hook NWR in Delaware. This wildlife refuge always seems to have a great variety of birds to see. 

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1.Below are mostly Great Egrets, possible juvenile Little Blue Herons and a couple of American Avocets.

2. On the edge of the pond are a group of Mute Swans.

3.  I saw one Black-necked Stilt with a few Egrets.

4. Two Bald Eagles in the distance and closer to the drive was a group of Double-crested Cormorants and an Egret.

5. We saw the two Sandhill Cranes, these birds drew a lot of attention from birdwatchers and photographers.

Now there are 5 Sandhill Cranes being seen.

6. A Great Blue Heron looking beautiful. 

7. A fox was seen walking toward our car. I like it's shadow.

8. Near one of the ponds was a group of Black-crowned Night Herons, most of these looked like juveniles. There was one Green Heron hanging out on the top photo far left. 

9. How many night herons do you see below?

10. Here is a closeup of the Green Heron. 

11. An Osprey flew and landed very close to the Night Herons and the Green Heron. 

Further along the wildlife drive we saw a group of shorebirds and I believe there may be some Yellowlegs and American Black ducks in this group below. 

I hope you enjoyed my visit to the wildlife refuge. 

My most recently finished puzzle, I love these birds.

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