Saturday's Critters # 613

  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!

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I am sharing lots of butterfly images. In August I was seeing so many butterflies, way more than last year. Wildlife sightings around our yard were the white-tailed deer and lots bunny sightings. 

1. August 1, while washing dishes at my kitchen sink looking out the window I see a mama deer with her fawn. 

2. Aug 2nd, Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly, the Monarch Butterfly and a sweet bunny.

3. This baby bunny hangs out under our blueberry bushes.  Adorable, I hope it stays safe! 

4. Aug 3rd, I sat on our deck watching for birds and butterflies.  I saw lots of butterflies around the buddleia bush.  

5. Below is the pretty Eastern Tiger Swallowtailed butterfly. 

"Butterflies are not insects, they are self-propelled flowers."

6. I seem to see more of the Black Swallowtail butterflies. 

7. Aug 3rd, Miney was funny one day, there were so many butterflies flying around she was barking at them.  

"If you smile when you see a butterfly, you have happiness in your soul."

8. Flashback to a 2017 Florida bird, the Snail Kite. We has some great views of this bird at the Circle B Preserve in Lakeland Florida. This sighting of the Snail Kite was a new life bird for me. 

The female Snail Kite has the whitish feathers around the face. Juveniles are brown above and streaked brown and buff below, a buffy throat and eyebrow.

Another Florida 2017 lifer was the Swallow-tailed Kite. Not the best photo but at I least I could record my lifer. 

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Saturday's Critters # 612

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

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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. 

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 # 611

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

Wishing everyone a safe and happy Labor Day weekend!

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1. July 17th, Miney and I took our walk to the lake, seen in the collage Miney on the fire road and a little bit of the lake in the bottom two photos. 

2. July 20th, walking around my yard, I saw my first Monarch Butterfly of the summer and a Tiger Swallowtail on the butterfly bush.  The Peacock was strolling around our yard. 

July 20th, my morning walk with Miney on the local fire road.  Miney likes climbing on a tree that fell across the trail. 

3. July 21, our morning walk was to the lake.  We saw a pretty sky reflecting on the lake. 

4. July 21, my Merlin App has been picking up the same birds in the same area where I walk with Miney. The White-eyed Vireo is one of those birds, it likes to hang out in the same area. 

5. Miney stops and smells the flowers along the trail. 

6.  Flashback to my Ruby-throated Hummingbirds, one of my many favorite back yard birds.

It is not often I see more than one Hummingbird at the feeder, they do not like sharing.

 

I have captured at least two Ruby-throated Hummingbirds at my feeder. 

It is rare I see the adult with juveniles, I was lucky to capture this photo of 4 Ruby-throated Hummingbirds at my feeder.  

Sometimes I can find the Hummingbirds resting in one of our trees or bushes near the feeders.

In September this juvenile Hummingbird was starting to show of his ruby jewel. 

The adult male Ruby-throated Hummingbird is lovely when showing off his ruby jewel. 

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 # 610

 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 a mish-mash of photos from early July. I have not been far from home for birdwatching outings. My walks with Miney are close to home since my hubby can not do any long walks. Hubby started having Dialysis for his kidney disease on July 14th and now it's Aug 23, so it's been over a month. The treatment seems to be going well, as well as can be expected. 

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1. July 2nd, at this time I was seeing some bunnies all sizes in our yard. The baby bunnies are so cute. They are scared of Miney and they run away if she is too close. 

2. July 4th, a walk with Miney on the fire road at Prettyboy. 

3. July 5th, a back yard Carolina Wren was singing loudly. 

4. July 7th, another walk with Miney on the fire road. Miney stopped short on this trail, there was a big pile of poo which looked fresh.  This was the second time I was thinking there could have been a bear nearby. We turned around and went back home. 

5. On this day I walked Miney to the lake, my Merlin App picked up a Green Heron flying away fussing. I did see where the Green Heron landed for a distant photo. 

6. July 11th, A foggy morning walk with Miney. Miney doesn't care about the weather, she just loves to take walks. 

7. July 16th, I have three choices of walks on the near by fire roads. I usually alternate from day to day, which way to go some trails are just a walk through the forest and two go to different sections of the lake.  Miney doesn't care, she just like to go.  She is very alert and is quick to see anything that moves, she evens looks up in the trees at the birds.  

8. Flashback August 2017, I have several images of the Belted Kingfisher. I usually hear the Kingfisher's loud rattle before I actually see it.  The female Belted Kingfisher has the chestnut belly band. Currently I have not seen or heard the Belted Kingfisher, it seems weird they have gone missing from the usual places I see and hear them. 

The male Belted Kingfisher has a blue-gray breast band. 

Another photo of the female Belted Kingfisher.

Update: Hubby is doing well with the dialysis, his blood work came back good. A busy morning, after dialysis this morning, we are stopping by to pay our respects to my DIL's granny she passed away on Tuesday and the funeral service is today. Granny will be missed, RIP Jennifer. I may be a little late visiting everyone!

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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