Saturday's Critters # 612

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A mish-mash I am finally posting photos from the end of July. Photos are from my back yard and of course I share some flashback photos.  I have various butterflies and an unknown moth. 

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1. I am seeing lots of butterflies at the coneflowers, the Buddleia and our Zinnias flowers. Below is the Fritillary Butterfly.

2. The Swallowtail butterflies are plentiful this summer. They are very pretty to watch visiting out buddleia bushes. 

3. The Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly is a pretty yellow with black tiger stripes with some red and blue spots 

4. The purple coneflowers are growing well this year.

A Swallowtail looking a little ragged but still beautiful.

There are two of the Swallowtail butterflies below.

5. An unknown moth on the butterfly bush.

6. Our Crepe Myrtle had some beautiful blooms, the insects love these flowers. 

7. Sept 2019, a flashback look at an Iceland bird, the Northern Fulmar. I saw some of these birds roosting on a cliff next to the Seljalandsfoss Waterfall, South Coast Iceland. 

The Northern Fulmar, a gull-like seabird. They are neat looking birds with their yellow beak with odd looking nose tubes. 

Seljalandsfoss Waterfall

Bonus, our son stopped by to do some work for us and he brought our grandsons for a visit. The boys enjoyed sitting on the deck feeding the Cardinal and watching the hummingbirds. Some time was spent eating snacks and watching a car race cartoon. 

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Saturday's Critters # 503

 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 am sharing some more of our Ireland photos. On May 11th we visited the Cliffs of Moher and we also went to a private sheep farm.

1. My mosaic images are various views of the Cliffs of Moher. We were able to spend a few hours walking the cliffs, checking out the tower and the visitor center. 

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2. The Razorbills one of the many sea birds on the Cliffs of Moher. The Razorbills a type of Auk, they are white and black and there is a white line on the face and bill. 

3. The Black-legged Kittiwake also seen in high numbers on the cliffs. They are white with gray wings, black legs and a yellow bill.

4. The Northern Fulmar was also seen on the cliffs, they are gray and white with a pale yellow thick bill. 

5. The cliff walls were covered with sea birds, I believe these are Common Murre. The Common Murre or Common Guillemot is a black and white sea bird.  They have a thin dark pointed bill. 

6. I wished my camera was able to zoom in closers to all those tiny dots. There must have been thousands of sea birds on this sea stack. 

7. Later on the same day we visited a private working sheep farm. It was neat to see the dogs herding the sheep. Hubby was able to bottle feed one of the lambs. The donkeys, dogs and sheep all seemed very friendly.  

8. Lambs being bottle fed, hubby's hand is in the front wearing his gloves. 

9.  The sheep with their farmer's colors.

10. The herding dogs seem to run with smiles on their faces, they love their jobs. 

11. The herding dog is waiting for instructions. 

12. The dog at work moving the sheep. 

13. Time to pet the cute donkeys. 

14. Some of the farm with a view of the bay, some fiber art using the sheep's wool, an old caravan,  a sample of sheared sheep's wool. The lambs are adorable, a closeup of the sheep black faces, some penned sheep and the lambs inside waiting for their bottles. 

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Happy Thankful Thursday

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After our wet Glacier Lagoon boat ride, our last stop of the day was at the Seljalandsfoss Waterfalls. YAY and thanks for the sunshine! Can you find the people walking on the trail that goes behind the waterfall? 

Hubby took the trail that went behind the waterfalls.  

While hubby was taking the waterfall trail that went behind the falls, I took shots of the waterfalls and the Northern Fulmars.  There were groups of these birds in different spots on the cliff around the waterfalls.

The Northern Fulmar, a gull-like seabird. They are neat looking birds with their yellow beak with odd looking nose tubes. 

A view of the sunset, looking toward to coast from the trail and waterfall parking lot. 

I was thankful the rain stopped! We were able to see a pretty sunset during our last stop of our tour. 


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Our World, My World

Happy Monday,

I am sharing another day tour from our Iceland trip. This tour was 14 hours round trip from Reykjavik to the South Coast and the  Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon. We stopped at two waterfalls and at the Black Sand Beach in the town of Vik. Our tour also included a boat ride on the Glacier Lagoon. 

Temps on this day were mid 50's to 60°. It always felt warm with the sun shining. Our first stop was at the Skógafoss Waterfalls. The spray from the falls felt like rain.

The town of Vik was our lunch stop and our dinner stop. Behind the restaurants and souvenir shop was the Black Sand Beach. I saw some Black-headed Gulls and there
were some Pelagic Cormorant near some rock formations. 

One stranger among the Black-headed Gulls. 

I know I am reaching for this id, but I am guessing beside a gull  the other birds are the European Shag. 

After eating, I walked around outside and found these cute White Wagtails on the parking lot.

The White Wagtail is a lifer for me, yay! 

Looking out the bus window, there were many waterfalls seen on the cliffs. Also, on the cliffs I could see the Northern Fulmars and there were actually some sheep seen high up on the cliffs. 

At the Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon, we went on a lagoon boat tour. It was neat to ride past some of the icebergs. It rained during our boat tour, I was told by the guide there were some sea ducks and seals in the water. I only saw them from a distance. With the boat moving and the rain, photos with my camera was not happening. Hubby took these with my iphone. 

A view of the icebergs from the shore. The icebergs are pieces of the glacier breaking off and floating in the lagoon. 

Now that we were back on the bus, the sun and sky cleared up. This is a view of the Glacier. The black line on the right side is volcanic ash from the past eruptions.  

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Saturday's Critters # 301

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More from the Snaefellsnes Peninsula and Iceland's coast.

Gulls fly by, I am not sure of their id.

The Arctic Terns were seen along the rocky beaches on the Snaefellsnes Peninsula.

I am just guessing at this duck, a Scaup? Edited, thanks to David this is the female Tufted Duck below. 

Gull id's are difficult for me, the juveniles and adults look so different. Perched nearby is the European Shag, id corrected with thanks to David. 

A group of European Shag.

Northern Fulmar

A friend helped with this id, the Velvet Scoter. 

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