Saturday's Critters # 600

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Wow, 600 Saturday's Critters posts, thanks to all who participate and share their beautiful critters!

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1. April 27th, NCR rail to trail walk. I captured a Hawk flying over the trail.  It was a pretty blue sky day. 

2. April 28th, below are the spring blooms in our yard: the Columbine, Dogwood tree, Redbud tree, white Azaleas, Pink Azalea and light purple Creeping Phlox.

Miney on the fire road and a Pink Lady Slipper starting to bloom.

The Merlin list of birds I heard while taking Miney for a walk on the fire road. 

3. April 29th, hubby and I went on a bird walk at the Cromwell Valley Park near Towson Md. I saw lots of Robins, the Gray Catbirds were calling and a Eastern Kingbird was perched near the parking lot. 

Cromwell Valley Park is a great place to see the Baltimore Orioles.  We saw a few and heard even more calling. 

Here are lists of most of the birds we saw and heard at Cromwell Valley Park. 

4. April 30th, my backyard birds are the Peacock on our deck railing and the pair of Bluebirds. 

5. May 1st, a walk with Miney on our local fire road, I keep my Merlin App on listening to the birds while walking. The Yellow-breasted Chat is not often seen here, it is listed on the chart. Maybe it was flying over?

I look forward to seeing the Pink lady Slipper orchids growing along the local fire road. This plant had two blooms and was the first plant to bloom. 

6. May 2nd, another walk and a different section of the NCR trail. There were some wildflowers blooming, my favorite are the wild pink azaleas. I am pretty sure the bird in the last row is a Northern Parula, I heard him calling. 

Back at home I saw the Gray Catbird in the back yard, standing on the top of the Bluebird house. 

7. Flashback images from June 2018 and our road trip to Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky. I saw a few warblers while walking on the trails in the park. Below is the Chestnut-sided Warbler.

Below is the Yellow-rumped Warbler.

"The birds of hope are everywhere listen to them sing."

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Happy Monday

Happy Monday!

Wishing everyone a great day and a happy new week! 

"Like a waterfall, life doesn't flow backwards."

Cumberland Falls Resort State Park, Kentucky

Advice from a waterfall

Let your cares fall away

Roar with excitement

Go with the flow

Make a splash

"We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone."

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Natural Bridge State Resort Park

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During our road trip 2018 we visited the Natural Bridge Resort State Park. It is located near the Red River Gorge in Kentucky. We took the hike to the Natural Bridge starting off from the visitor center/resort. 

Pine Siskins at the feeders outside the resort. They were also all over the nearby trees. 

We started off on the shortest hardest hike to see the Natural Bridge.

Some pretty wildflowers seen off the trail. Not sure of their id?

Standing under the Natural Bridge, a natural sandstone arch. 

Heading up the skinny steps to the top of the Natural Bridge.

Part of the trail was very narrow.  

We are on the top of the Natural Bridge.

Looking over at the point and end of the trail. 

At the end of the trail looking back at the Natural Bridge. 

A view of the sky from the last lookout. 

A view from the top and end of the trail. 

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Saturday's Critters #237

Welcome to Saturday's Critters!

Happy Canada Day to my blogging friends in Canada!  

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 some of the birds and butterflies I saw while staying at the Cumberland Falls Resort State Park in Kentucky.

Taken on May 7th 2018, a  Spotted Sandpiper was seen along the river right before the top of the Cumberland Falls.

A Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly seen on some wild azaleas near the Eagle Falls.

American Goldfinch outside the resort lodge.

This fat groundhog was seen outside the restaurant window at the lodge. I think it was watching me eat my breakfast, wishing he could join us.

I enjoyed watching this Song Sparrow playing in the water on the river's edge above the falls.

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Happy Thankful Thursday

Happy Thankful Thursday!

EDIT: I am linking up with Favorite Fotos thanks to Lydia at Where the Wild Things Were

I am sad to hear about the loss of one of our old Skywatch friends Luiz Ramos from Brazil. He passed away June 21st. Luiz Ramos facebook page. Luiz was a very nice blogging friend, one of my first friends from when I started blogging. He helped run the Skywatch meme and also had a Flower Meme party. He will be missed, prayers for Luiz and his family. 

These are some images from our road trip, more from the Cumberland Falls Resort State Park. We spend one night and two days at the park. On this day we hiked to the Eagle Falls, located down river from the Cumberland Falls. 

The trail to Eagle Falls is across the river from the Cumberland Falls trail. See my previous post for the Cumberland Falls. 

A view of the Eagle Falls trail.

It was a pretty sky day.

A look at the Cumberland Falls from across the river.

A view of the river from the Eagle Falls trail.

This is the Eagle Falls, a harder hike than the easy Cumberland Falls trail.

The Eagle Falls was pretty.

The Eagle Falls trail had a lot of boulders around the river.

Walking back the Eagle Falls trail to the car.

Song Sparrow next to the river.

I am thankful for the first trail blazers, they make it easier for me to hike the trails.  

I am thankful to see pretty puffy white clouds and a blue sky!

I am thankful for all your visits and comments. 

Thank you Michelle for hostingHappy Monday, enjoy your day and new week! Thankful Thursday

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Cumberland Falls Resort State Park

Happy Monday,

I am continuing our road trip. After leaving Mammoth Cave NP and Bowling Green Kentucky we headed to our next night stay at the Cumberland Falls Resort State Park.

This is a Google map of our road trip. The trip dates were from May 1st to may 11th.



On May 7th-8th we stayed at the  Cumberland Falls Resort Lodge,. We had a nice room in the lodge for the night. Their restaurant was perfect for dinner and breakfast the next day.

A view of the river above the falls.

Pretty sure this is a Song Sparrow, seen near the river's edge.

Rainbow at the Cumberland Falls.

The recent rain helped the falls look great with lots of water.

Me and my shadow at the falls.

The view of the river and park  from the resort's restaurant. I was happy to see a worker come along and fill all the bird feeders outside the windows.

Thanks for your visit today!  I hope you enjoyed my post and photos.

Thanks to the hosting team of Our World Tuesday!

I hope to see you there. Thanks to the host today. Enjoy your day.

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