Saturday's Critters # 653

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

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Happy Father's Day to my hubby and son and all the Dads in Blogland. I hope your day is special! 

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

I am sharing my walks, my favorite parks, NCR bike trail and of course our local Prettyboy fire road walk with Miney. I have been enjoying all the wildflowers, the spring birds are arriving. All are my simple pleasure and bring me joy. 

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1. Hashawha Nature Center walk, the wildflowers were looking pretty. I found an Eastern Kingbird sitting on a wire that goes across the lake. The kingbird's tail has white on the very bottom. I captured a Carolina Wren, you can almost hear him singing. 

2. NCR trail Parkton Maryland, the best bird I heard and saw was the Baltimore Oriole.  The white-throated Sparrows were still hanging around, the Northern Parula was singing often. 

3. My backyard bunny is a cutie!  

4. My walk with Miney on the Prettyboy fire road, I love seeing the Pink Lady Slippers.  

It is wonderful to see all the greenery, Spring is one of my favorite times of the year. 

5. While the Pink lady Slippers are blooming I tend to walk on the fire road in their direction. Our Rhododendrons are blooming, we lost some branches this past winter. The snow was too heavy and they fell over.  

I like using the Merlin app on my fire road walks, the Blackburnian Warbler was nice to hear.  I have seen them previous years around the Prettyboy watershed. 

6. Miney loves her walks, her nose is to the ground. So many smells for her, she picks up speed if she smells a fox. 

7. The Bluebirds are using a birdhouse on our deck, the male Bluebird does not like the woodpeckers. I have seen him trying to chase off the birds from the feeders. 

Below is from my walk again with Miney on the local Prettyboy fire road.  The Northern Parula are breeders here in the watershed.  I am not sure if the Black and White Warbler was a resident or migrant.

8. Walk with Miney on the local fire road at Prettyboy.

I was happy to hear the Yellow-billed Cuckoo calling, it is nice to see the birds returning to our area. 

I hope you are all enjoying nature and getting outdoors walking. 

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Saturday's Critters # 618

 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

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1. Still behind with my photos.  These are from Sept 3rd, we went to the Hashawha Nature Park. Miney seemed to enjoy the walk and all the new smells. 

"The best therapist has fur and four legs."

"May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day."

2.  A group of wildflowers, the Cardinal flowers are a favorite. 

"Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it."

Miney is waiting for her daddy to finish looking at all the Cardinal flowers. 

3. The bee below likes the Thistle. 

4. I am guessing the next two images are Skippers? 

"To me, flowers are happiness."

I am not sure what the flowers/weeds are called, they look pretty to me. I like the color. 

5. Hashawha Lake I usually see lots of dragonflies. I was lucky to catch this Blue Darter.

6. Heading back to our car, I noticed this Cardinal in a tree next to the trail.  It looks like a young Cardinal.

7. Sept 3rd, back at home and in my yard we saw the peacock in the back of the yard and I believe the butterfly is a Common Sulfur.  I could be wrong the Orange Sulfur looks similar.

8. My flashback photos are from our time in Florida 2016-2017 and again a Florida trip in 2019. I am sharing one of my many favorite Florida birds the Wood Stork. 

Florida 2019, the Wakodahatchee Wetlands Park, Florida.  Previously the wetlands nature park was part of the wastewater utility property. 

8. Florida 2017, two Wood Storks seen at the Circle B Reserve in Lakeland.

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Saturday's Critters # 594

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

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Wishing everyone a happy month of May. Tomorrow is our 35th anniversary. Usually we try to take a trip close to or on our anniversary but this year we will be staying home. I am seeing and hearing some of our Spring birds returning like the Eastern Phoebe and the Pine Warbler has been very vocal lately. 

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1. March 14, my first critter on this post, is Miney on one of our walks on the local fire road.  I hope you all are not tired of seeing Miney, she is a sweet and cute dog. 

2. March 16th on our walks with Miney, I am also looking for birds. At this time I was hearing more than I could see and photograph.  The Woodpeckers, Titmouse, Chickadees, Cardinals and Crows were the most common birds I heard along the trail.

3. March 18th, walking Miney on the NCR trail in Parkton Md. There are 3 bridges we cross and in the water below I noticed these large fish, some were in orange and some looked black or brown? I am not sure but we were told they were some kind of trout?  Fishing is allowed in this spot, in some areas any fish caught has to be put back in the water. 

4. March 18th, orange fish and some are black or brown colored fish. 

5. March 19, these are the birds I  saw at the Hashawha Nature Park: Eastern Bluebird, Mourning Dove, Song Sparrows, Cardinal, Mockingbird, Miney and the Slider Turtles. 

6. March 19th a Song Sparrow high in a tree next to the trail. On this photo you can see the obvious breast spot. 

7. March 19th, our walk with Miney was at the Hashawha Nature Park. 

March 19th, back at home we are seeing the Peacock on the warmer days. I am not sure if  Mr Peacock and our dog Miney will be friends.  

8. Flashback to May 2019, a few of my backyard feeder birds. I saw a great variety of birds when I had my bird feeders up. In the mosaics below are the Pine Warbler and the Pine Siskins in the first image. The second mosaic are two Rose-breasted Grosbeaks.

Flashback to May 2019, Rose-breasted Grosbeaks.

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Saturday's Critters # 557

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

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These are various images from different days, mostly my backyard birds, a few from our walks on the NCR bike trail, the Hashawha Nature Center and our local fire road walks with Winnie the grand-dog.

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Backyard birds and blooms, the Gray Catbird and the Eastern Bluebird at the birdhouse.

Scenes from our walk on the NCR Trail, I always greet the dogs I see during our walks. I believe this handsome Labrador was named Noah. 

The birds below are from the NCR trail, White-breasted Nuthatch, Carolina Chickadee, Indigo Bunting, Eastern Phoebe and Turkey Vulture.

Backyard birds on June 14, the Peacock still comes to visit us, a Ruby-throated Hummingbird at the feeder, another shot of the Peacock perched on the swing set.

June 16th backyard deer, Peacock, Eastern Bluebird and a Downy Woodpecker.

June 16th, our walk at the Hashawha Nature Center

Back at home the Peacock standing next our car, a squirrel waiting for some food and a Tufted Titmouse on the fence. 

Two Hairy Woodpeckers visit our deck often, they like the peanut suet nuggets I leave out on the railing. 

Below more backyard birds, the Cardinal, Eastern Bluebird and the Brown Thrasher looking for food on the railing.

Backyard birds are the Brown Thrasher, the Northern Cardinal and the Peacock continues to visit. 

 July 2-4th we watched our grand-dog Winnie, she enjoyed going for walks on the local fire road.  

July 11th, we had two black bears visiting our yard. They walked up on our deck, around our cars and yard. They stopped and ate some our blueberries off the bush. If you enlarge the image below, you can see just a small part of the second bear, on top left image I circled it with a red marker. BTW, I have taken down my bird feeders years ago,  I was tired of seeing the squirrels eating all the food. 

I hope you enjoyed my birds and critters. 

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