Saturday's Critters # 639

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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 # 565

 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!

Prayers for Florida, I hope everyone is safe!

These photos are from Aug 3rd, our second full day visiting Denali National Park and Preserve. We decided to drive as far as we were allowed to mile 15 on the park road. 

1. We had a nice breakfast at the nearby Rosie's cafe and then we headed to the park which was just 13 miles away from our hotel.  Our first critter sighting on the road to the park, was this mama Moose and her young was standing off the road in Healy.  

2. On this day I was happy to see so many moose. Moose are one of my favorite critters.

3. This bear was seen from the parking lot at the Savage River trail head. The Grizzly Bears attract a lot of attention from visitors and park rangers. 

4. This bear stayed in the same spot for awhile, it must have found something good to eat. 

5. Another moose on the loose, something upset this moose it started jumping up and ran for a short time.

Moose on the run!

6. The Willow Ptarmigan was a lifer for me, they were seen all along the park road. Groups of 4-5 were seen eating something off the ground. 

7. The Willow Ptarmigan are heavy bodied ground feeding birds. These birds are similar to the Grouse, they are brown in the summer time and turn white in the winter. They live in Denali year round. 

They were not shy birds, they just seemed busy foraging for food. 

8. The Black-billed Magpie are seen all over the park, a common bird in Alaska. They do look pretty in flight. 

9. These birds are the Dark-eyed Juncos. They were seen along a trail, we took a short walk and a break from driving. 

10. Our dinner was close to our hotel, it was at the 49th State Brewery. The scene below is from their parking lot. 

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.

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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