Saturday's Critters # 587

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 images are from early February. At this time our weather has been stuck in a cold and wet pattern. We seem to be getting days of low temperatures and more rain/sleet/snow every couple of days. I am looking forward to the time change on March 9 and to have some warmer temps. 

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1. Feb 9th, sharing some of my back yard birds, like the White-throated Sparrow.  They wait patiently for me to come outside and put out some nuggets for them to eat.  

2. Below are the White-throated Sparrow and the Northern Mockingbird.  

3. Feb 9th, Miney on her daily walk.  

4. Feb 11th, our walk with Miney on the fire road to the front section of the Prettyboy reservoir. 

5. Feb 11th, the White-throated Sparrow a winter bird in my area. I am seeing a lot of them, more than any other bird. It is strange, if they see me look out my kitchen door they fly to the deck railing to see if I am bringing out food for them.  

6. Feb 12th, my yard birds included the Dark-eyed Junco, the Northern Mockingbird and the Blue Jays. 

7. I caught the Blue Jay on the deck railing chowing down on some peanut suet nuggets.  Usually the Mockingbird chases them off.  

8. An image from my Florida archives, Feb 2017.  I have a Anhinga posing, their eyes are colorful. The blue-green colors are vibrant during mating season.

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Saturday's Critters # 585

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

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Happy March everyone, wishing everyone a great month! 

March is the month to celebrate new beginnings, March 9th is the start of daylight savings time and the first day of Spring is March 20th.

This is a mish-mash of critters and photos. The images are from the end of January into the beginning of February. Photos of our dog Miney, the yard birds I see daily and our grand-dogs. Our grandsons shared a birthday party on Feb 1st, we were happy to be there to celebrate their birthdays. 

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1. Jan 28th, Miney is a big part of our lives now.  We try to take her for a daily walk on the local fire road. On this day the trail was still covered with snow and the reservoir looked frozen and also covered with snow. 

2. Jan 29th, we took Miney for a dog bath to the local dog grooming business. Below is a mural that was in the grooming business.

3. Jan 30th, we took Miney out for a morning walk on the fire road.  

4. Feb 1st, our two grandsons Wyatt and Mason had a combo birthday party.  I've posted before about our grandsons birthdays but these images are from the actual birthday party.  Pop-pop is holding Sophie a few days from being 7 months old. 

5. Winnie our grand-dog is always happy to see us. 

6. The Northern Mockingbird is a bully in my yard, he does not like sharing the food or water.  

7. The Dark-eyed Juncos are my winter birds, they are seen in my yard and they enjoy the suet nuggets I put on the deck railing. 

8. Critter flashback to March 2024, a mosaic sharing our grand-dogs. Nibbles (no longer with us) the mixed breed part shepherd and Winnie the Corgi. 

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Saturday's Critters # 584

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

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I seem to always be at least a month behind sharing my critters and bird photos.  These images start off at Jan 23rd. 

1. Jan 23rd, my yard birds included the Northern Mockingbird, Blue Jays, Northern Flicker and the Dark-eyed Junco. 

2. The Northern Mockingbird has been a bully chasing off all my other birds from the food and the water. 

3. The Dark-eyed Junco was waiting nearby for a quick grab and go before the Mockingbird came back. 

4. The Blue Jays stand their ground and refuse to be bullied by the Mockingbird. 

5. I watched the Northern Flicker getting a drink of water. Even the Flicker had to be on the lookout for the bully Mockingbird. 

6. Jan 25th, We love our Miney, she still has a lot of puppy habits.  Since she is still a puppy we need to be constantly watching her. She is quick to grab anything in her sight.  

7. Jan 26th, hubby and I like to take Miney out for a morning walk every day.  I think she enjoys the walks and there are so many new scents for her to smell along the fire road. 

8. Jan 26th, we visited our son and his family. Any time is a good time that we spend with our grandchildren. I also love seeing Winnie the Corgi, our grand-dog. 

Bonus Flashback to Jan2017, another of my Florida favorite birds, the Roseate Spoonbill. 

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. 

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Saturday's Critters # 532

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

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Time seems to fly by no matter what we do, these images are from late January. On Jan 19th we had about 6 inches of snow. The birds were enjoying the peanuts and suet nuggets I put out for them.

1. The Blue Jays are always first to arrive after I put out some food, they are piggies.  I think they sit in trees above our yard and wait for me to come outside.

2. Our snow covered deck with a White-throated Sparrow sitting on the railing waiting for some food. The winterberries are a pop of color, ready for some birds to eat.

3. The Mockingbird has been enjoying some suet nuggets, when it is not eating it is chasing away other birds from the food. 

4. Looking out my window, I noticed 2 bunnies in our side yard. I hope they are finding food the ground was covered with snow. One bunny is almost hidden on the far left. The window blinds made this photo look strange. 

5. Jan 26th Prettyboy reservoir has a layer of ice on top and little section of open water where the Canada Geese were paddling around. 

6. I am happy to see we have had enough rain/snow to start filling up the reservoir after last year's drought.

7. After our walk to the lake, we are home to hear the male Cardinal banging on our front window. The female is sitting back further in the rhododendron watching her mate attack his reflection in the window.  

8. Hubby and I enjoy working on 1000 piece puzzles on the bad weather days.  I loved this Toucan puzzle. 

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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.