Saturday's Critters # 647

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

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"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir

Happy Mother's Day to all Moms!  My wish includes all the furbaby Moms too.

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1. On the NCR bike trail, hubby, Miney and I had a nice day for a walk.  We was able to captures the female Eastern Towhee and the Eastern Phoebe perched along the trail.  

A closer look at the female Eastern Towhee, she is a beauty. The female has a brown head, back and throat, rusty sides and a white belly. 

Back at home in the back yard, is the Peacock perched on the swing. 

2. Below the Conowingo Dam, the Bald Eagles were plentiful. 

Along the Susquehanna River trail, we saw lots of wildflowers. Top left are the Dutchman's Breeches, top right Yellow Woodland Anemone, bottom two are Bluebells just starting to open. 

We saw lots of the trout lilies. They are one of my favorites, they are a beautiful to see. 

3. On the island in the middle of the Susquehanna River there is a Great Blue Heron rookery. 

Below the Conowingo Dam on the Susquehanna River, we saw lots of Bald Eagles. They stop to eat some fish on their migration north.  I counted five adult Eagles and two juvenile Eagles perched on top of rock in the background.

4. Codorus Reservoir, Hanover Pennsylvania. We had some extra time before meeting the family for lunch, we stopped for some views of the lake.  

Bonus, we met up with my son and his family and my sister and her hubby on Easter Saturday. It was a dialysis morning, but we were able to meet for lunch. Hubby enjoys moments with the grandchildren, like a hug from our granddaughter Sophie.

We gave the grandkiddies their Easter baskets early, they all enjoyed the baskets, especially the bubble makers. It was a Happy Easter. 

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 # 646

   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!

"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir

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1. Miney love the walks and the warmer weather.

2. A mosaic sharing my yard birds, the Carolina Wren, and the Bluebird couple. 

The Carolina Wren is singing loudly.  

The male Bluebird is so pretty!

3. He showed off the colors on his back and his chest. 

The female sits nearby, looking pretty too.

4. A quick walk with Miney up and down our street, these were some of the birds I could hear.

Lunch visit with son, DIL and grand-kiddies and Winnie the Corgi.

It was nice to finally see our Daffodils blooming.

5. Hubby enjoys a walk with Miney on the fire road, it is good for him to get outdoors walking.

6. On the dialysis days, it is usually just me and Miney taking a walk on the local fire road. The trees were still bare at this time, you can see the lake through the trees.  The trees are starting to get the reddish buds. 

Birds heard at Prettyboy on the Merlin App.

7. The Peacock was sitting in a tree in the back of our yard.  He was showing off his pretty tail feathers. 

8. We must have had a bear visit early on this day, my bird feeder made of metal was bent and twisted. I found the bent feeder on the ground at the bottom of our deck steps. Miney could smell the bear, her hair was standing up and she was barking crazy. I did not actually see the bear but we have had them visited our yard last year. 

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 # 645

  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!

"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir

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I am sharing a mish-mash of photos, my back yard birds and our dog Miney, the neighborhood Peacock, views from the fire road walks and the bike trail walk. I can hear a FOY Eastern Phoebe calling in my yard too, no photos yet. 

1. At this time our weather was finally warming up some, Spring still seems far off, the scenery of bare trees and fallen leaves on the fire road walk with Miney. The Prettyboy reservoir is still low due to the drought. 

2. On some of our busier days, I just take Miney for a walk up and down our street.  She is happy still lots of smells around. 

3. My backyard birds, are the Blue Jay and the Cardinals. They are always looking for the peanut nuggets. 

4. At the NCR trail, the sled dogs are finished their run and getting ready to go back into their transport vehicle. 

5. Scenes from our walk on the NCR Bike trail. The sled dogs were packing up to go home, we saw some icicles hanging off a boulder along the trails. Our weather has up and down like a yo-yo, warms days and still some very cold days.

6. There were lots of Canada Geese hanging out on the Friendly Farm Ponds. There were some ducks but too far away to see which species. 

7. The Peacock will come up on our deck sometimes, looking for food or just to hang out. 

8. The male Pine Warbler has found my feeders. I've been hearing them calling a lot lately.  They are breeding in the forest around our home. 

9. The tarp covering our wood piles gets blown around in the high winds we were having.  The Peacock loves to sit on the wood pile. 

Bonus image, one of our birthday gifts to the grandsons was a little jeep they could ride in. I think they love it. It is an outside ride, but my son just put it together. 

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 # 644

 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!

"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir

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Heads up April 22nd is Earth Day, we can help by participating in activities such as planting trees, cleaning up your neighborhood, reduce your use of plastics.

1. Some of my back yard critters, the Peacock likes to sit on top of our wood pile.  

I think I bought this moose 30 years ago, it is made of heavy iron. After a trip to the Tetons and Yellowstone I decided Moose were one of my many favorite critters. I had to have a moose in my back yard. 

2. At this time our weather was beautiful for taking our walks with Miney. On this day hubby and I took our walk on the NCR bike trail in Parkton Md. I heard and saw my FOY Eastern Phoebe. 

The Eastern Phoebe has a call that sounds like fee-bee. It almost sounds like it is saying it's own name and feed-me, lol.  

Miney checking out the NCR trail, looking for people, dogs and deer.  

"The wildlife and it's habitat cannot speak, so we must and we will."

3. Below on this day it was just me and Miney taking the walk.  Hubby is tired on the days he has dialysis. Below are views of the Prettyboy Reservoir, it is really low, parts of the lake look more like a stream. 

4. An early morning walk with just me and Miney, our walk on the local fire road at Prettyboy Watershed.

"Nature is not a place to visit, it is home."

Two birds below were heard on my walk with Miney, the Eastern Bluebird was one I heard often.

The Pine Warbler is a breeder in the Prettyboy Watershed, I've been hearing these birds calling a lot while I was on my walk.  The photo below is one of my archive images, the Pine Warbler used to visit my feeders. The male is a beautiful bright yellow color.

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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