Saturday's Critters # 597

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

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Happy Memorial Day weekend! Remember and Honor! Be safe, this holiday weekend! 

Another post of mish-mash images and dates, I am still behind sharing. 

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1. April 1 in my backyard I was still seeing the Eastern Bluebirds. I hope they were using my birdhouse for their nest. Isn't he beautiful?

2. April 1st, our backyard Daffodils were looking pretty.

3. April 1st, my Merlin app was on while walking Miney on our local fire road. Below are some of the birds I heard on our walk. 

4. Miney is great at climbing over the down trees on the trail. 

5. April 4th, the Merlin app list of birds heard on our fire road walk at Prettyboy.

6. April 4th, Miney on our walk on the local Prettyboy fire road.

7. My flashback images from May 2019, looking out my window to see 3 Pileated Woodpeckers in my backyard. 

From last year, March 2024 the Pileated Woodpecker was pecking away at a tree next to our yard. The male has the extra red stipe on it's cheek.

8. May 2019, flashback to a getaway to Shenandoah National Park, I saw this pretty Indigo Bunting sitting in a tree next to the overlook on Skyline Drive. The Indigo Bunting has a small bill compared to the Grosbeaks.

From May 2023, we see a lot of the Indigo Buntings and Blue Grosbeaks at the Bombay Hook NWR in Delaware. The Blue Grosbeak has a rust color on it's wings and a heavier beak. 

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Saturday's Critters # 557

 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!

 

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.

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 # 510

 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!

This post is part 2 of our visit to Bombay Hook NWR in Delaware. Since we spent the night in Dover Delaware we were able to visit the wildlife refuge early in the morning.  I like seeing the refuge during the low tide also the lighting is different on the pools. 

1. I love seeing the large groups of Snowy Egrets and the Great Egrets, we also saw a Tricolored Heron hanging out with the Great Egrets and a few Green Herons. The American Goldfinch was eating some seeds off a nearby plant, American Avocets look busy grooming themselves, a Common Moorhen was hidden in the wetland grasses. In the last row, I was undecided if I was seeing the Purple Martins or Swallows, someone listed Bank Swallows on ebird for this sight. A pair of Bald Eagles were seen off in the distance near their nest and last are more Egrets with a Glossy Ibis. 

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Snowy Egrets, Great Egrets and the American Avocets. 

Below are the Great Egret and a Tricolored Heron.  The Tricolored has the long bill and a white belly.

The Green Heron, one of my favorite herons.  One of the smaller herons only 17 inches tall. 

The male Indigo Bunting, is a pretty color blue.

We enjoyed watching this Indigo Bunting, calling out his familiar sound.

A pretty male American Goldfinch, found some seeds to eat. At this spot I saw a movement out of the corner of my eye, it was a Least Bittern. The Least Bittern disappeared into the grasses, it was too fast for my camera but a great sighting. 

The low tide brings out the Clapper Rails, foraging in the muddy area of the wetlands. 

The two Clapper Rails went off in different directions and soon disappeared in the grasses. 

The Semipalmated Plover is a cutie! 

We enjoyed our picnic lunch in the car while watching these two Green Herons at the edge of the pond. 

A front view of the Green Heron, it looks comical. 

A view of the pool, way off in the distance are lots of little shorebirds looking like little brown spots, closer in are the American Avocets, Snowy Egrets, Great Egrets and the Glossy Ibis.

Bombay Hook NWR is a great place to see the birds,  many are breeders and are here during the summer. 

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Saturday's Critters # 394

 Welcome to Saturday's Critters!

Hello and happy Saturday!  Happy July everyone! 

 

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Latest news in my area, birds are going blind and dying. Here is a link to this article.

Take bird feeders down in D.C., nearby states, experts say - BirdWatching: No word yet on the cause of bird deaths in and around D.C., but as a precaution, you should take your feeders down and clean your bird bath.

The local Md and Virginia are birding clubs and bird club facebook pages are asking for people to take down their feeders. It is not known if the disease is contagious? Could they be eating insects/cicadas that have been sprayed with poisons?  Just a heads up, I have already taken my feeders down,  a few months now due to critter problem.  

Hubby and I enjoyed an overnight in Dover Delaware, the reason for our little getaway was to visit Bombay Hook NWR in Smyrna Delaware. It is also nice to be close by for an early morning drive on the wildlife drive. Timing for some bird sightings and wildlife sightings was great. I will break up our 2 day visit into two posts. 

1. June 16 we arrived around 9:40 am and we drove on the wildlife drive  till around 2:30pm. Near the entrance are the Purple Martin houses, seen along the wildlife drive were the Great Blue Heron, Common Yellowthroat Warbler, American Avocets, Raccoon family, Snapping Turtle, Black-necked Stilts, Great Egrets, Snowy Egrets, Mallard ducks, Black-crowned Night Heron with Great Egret, Black Skimmers with various Terns and Gulls, Indigo Bunting and a Blue Grosbeak. 

2. The American Avocet were looking pretty with their breeding colors. 

3. Raccoon family walking across one of the ponds. 

4. Mute Swans and some Great Egrets and Snowy Egrets.

5.  Black-necked Stilt on nest. 

6. Two Osprey with a Great Blue Heron flying by. 

7. Indigo Bunting, such a pretty deep blue.

8. A Blue Grosbeak, shows off his chestnut colored wingbars. 

9. Great Egret and a some what hidden Black-crowned Night Heron.

10. Port Mahon Delaware, Double-crested Cormorants 

11. Port Mahon Delaware Osprey on nest. 

I hope you enjoyed the birds and critters, we had a nice little trip and visit to the wildlife refuge. 

I am also linking up to Anni's blog party found here I'd Rather B Birding   Anni always has some beautiful birds to be seen on her blog, check it out!

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