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. 

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 # 546

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

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A short break from our Arizona trip and photos. I have some birds from my yard and neighborhood.

1. Some of my daily yard birds, the Northern Mockingbird, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Northern Cardinal, White-throated Sparrow and the Blue Jays. 

2. The next five mosaics are from our walk on the C&O Canal trail and at Great Falls NP in Potomac Maryland. 

Some blooms off the C&O canal trail,  a Yellow-rumped Warbler, a Mallard on the trail, a distant look at some Terns flying over the river. 

More from the C&O Canal trail , American Goldfinch, Hooded Merganser, Carolina Wren, Louisiana Waterthrush.

The Slider turtles were plentiful in the canal off the C&O trail. 

Lots of wildflowers seen off the C&O trail at Great Falls and a cute doggie.

3. Back in my yard, the Carolina Chickadee took up residence in one of our birdhouses.  

4. A morning walk to our local lake, Prettyboy reservoir. We saw the usual birds, the Canada Geese, Double-crested Cormorants, Eastern Bluebird and some first of the spring wildflowers. 

5. Our walk at the Hashawha Nature Center, we saw some spring flowers blooming, an Eastern Bluebird, Canada geese with the goslings, not sure if the bird third down on the left is a Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Gray Catbird, Red-winged Blackbird, geese family on trail.

6.  These are photos from another morning walk on our local fire road, the Pink Lady Slippers are starting to bloom and the Big Leaf Magnolias are blooming, there were the White Dogwood trees blooming, I captured the bottom of a Baltimore Oriole high in the tree top, we also saw some wild pink Azalea blooming and a view of the lake from the trail.

On the same day May 3rd, we saw the Black Bear right off our local fire road. It was not far from my neighbors yard. I think it was the same bear that knocked over our trash can on our deck and bent a shepherds hook pole and tore apart my hummingbird feeder. 

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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Saturday's Critters # 506

  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 think I will be forever behind sharing photos, these are from our backyard, morning walks at the bike trail, local parks or on the local fire roads and to the reservoir. 

1. Hashawha Nature Center, one of my favorite local parks. They have a great trail system, going by lakes, streams and large fields. On this day hubby and I saw a cute young River Otter, it saw us and went into hiding so no photos. Below: Slider Turtle, Red-winged Blackbird, Eastern Kingbird, possible Rat Snake, another turtle, Song Sparrow, Eastern Bluebird, Mourning Dove, waterlilies, lake and trail and some Queen Anne's Lace. 

2. A pretty Red-winged Blackbird perched on a nearby bush.  They were very vocal in this one area. 

3. A Great Blue Heron, common to see at our local reservoir.  

4. Another morning walk to the lake, it is a short walk just down our street to the fire road trail and to the lake.  On this day, we saw the usual Great Blue Heron and Canada Geese, a Mourning Dove was standing on one of the rocks next to lake, a view of the lake and a Belted Kingfisher in the usual spot. 

5. We watched this Green Heron fishing, it found a small fish you can see on the bottom right photo. 

6. I am seeing 4-5 Ruby-throated Hummingbirds zooming around my yard and deck.  I caught this one sitting on the feeder, looks like a female. 

7. Backyard birds, the female Eastern Bluebird, Cottontail bunny, Fritillary Butterflies and a Blue Jay. We had something sad happen with the Bluebird house and nest, I was happy to hear the babies inside making noises one day and just a few hours later I look out the window and see a rat snake sticking it's head out of the nest box. We made the snake leave the box but it was too late to save the babies. 

8. These images are from our walk on the local NCR bike trail, in the mosaic are photos of the trail, a Belted Kingfisher, Acadian Flycatcher, Gray Catbird, Red Shouldered Hawk, Song Sparrow, Box turtle, Eastern Phoebe. 

9. Red Shouldered Hawk, there are a couple of Tree Swallows that kept dive bombing the hawk.  

10. The Red-shouldered Hawk did not seem amused at the dive bombing Tree Swallows , I caught 2 blurry Tree Swallows flying at the hawk's head. 

I hope you enjoyed my birds and critter photos. 

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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.