Saturday's Critters # 609

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

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Aug 14th, thank you for all the well wishes for my hubby. He is doing well and he was told his blood work was good. His diet seems to be a daily battle.

1. June 24, One of my favorite local trails goes thru a pine tree forest. While walking with Miney I had the Merlin App recording the birds I heard singing. The Pine Warbler is a regular in my neighborhood and on this trail. 

The Pine Warbler has been seen different times of the year here. I know they are breeders in the forest around our home. I hear them singing during most of my walks with Miney. You can see this male has the yellow with black streaks.

On one of my walks with Miney, we were just on the local fire road not far from home, she stopped and refused to go further, she was watching one section off the trail I thought she was scared of whatever was there. I was thinking it was a black bear roaming around our local forest, I have seen them here before.  

The Acadian Flycatcher is one of our summer birds, it returns to the forest that surrounds our home and the Prettyboy reservoir. The Acadian Flycatcher is olive above, narrow eye-ring and has two wingbars. Their forehead is rather flat sloping gently to give a peaked look.

2. June 25th, my walk with Miney is another local fire road trail. I am not sure what these wildflowers are called.  

3. June 27th, I watch the Ruby-throated Hummingbird perched near his feeder.  

4. June 28th, since we have had so much it seem I am seeing lots of mushroom growing along side the fire road. 

5. June 29th, We walked our local fire road once again. This time I did more of a loop and came to a downed tree we had to cross over. She makes jumping over these trees look easy.  

6. June 30th, my birdwatching dog Miney was watching some birds up in the tree next to the trail. 

7. Lately on my walks, I have been hearing the Yellow-throated Vireo.  I have seen them before in the summer time and my Merlin App has been picking their sounds on my local fire road walks. This Vireo is colorful, has a yellow eye-ring and thick bill, has the yellow throat and it's belly is white.

8. August 2015, flashback photos and a visit to the North Point State Park in Baltimore County. One this day we saw lots of Great Egret, Little Blue Herons and a Tricolored Heron. Below starting on the left are two Little Blue Herons, in the middle is a Tricolored Heron and on the right a Great Egret and another Little Blue Heron. 

The transitional mottled Little Blue Heron.

Below is the adult Little Blue Heron

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Saturday's Critters # 593

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

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A mish-mash of photos, birds and critters and our cute dog Miney.  

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1. March 10th, I was happy to see a pair of Eastern Bluebirds visiting my bird houses.  I hope to see them raising their young this season. 

2. March 11th, my morning walk with Miney on the fire road. The trail is closest to my house and there are views of the reservoir.  

3. March 11th, I am still seeing the pair of Eastern Bluebirds coming and going to the birdhouses.

"Your bluebird of happiness is waiting for you."

4. March 12, I am sharing my yard birds , I had a nice variety of birds like the Northern Cardinal, the Mockingbird, a Pine Warbler , the Bluebird and the Titmouse.

5. March 12th, it was a warm day in the low 70's. I was happy to see the Peacock visiting, he hasn't been seen since last fall. We were getting ready to leave to meet hubby's cousin for lunch when the Peacock started his dance in front of the car. 

6. March 12th, the Red-bellied Woodpecker was able to eat some of the suet nuggets. Usually the woodpeckers are chased away by the Mockingbird.

7. March 12th, I was surprised this photo turned out ok, I wanted to get the cardinal perched but he flew off when I captured him in flight.

8. April 25th Arbor Day

Celebrate Arbor Day, plant a tree.

"He who plants a tree plants hope."

A flashback from my facebook page, from March 2016. A favorite bird is the Red-headed Woodpecker seen at the North Point State Park. I have not seen these birds since this time, they have safely moved on I hope.

A Sept 2015 flashback from the North Point SP, we saw a few Tricolored Herons, The park is more known for seeing the Little Blue Herons, it was a treat to see the Tricolored Herons.

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Saturday's Critters! # 575

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

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I want to wish all my blogging followers, Love, Joy and Peace this holiday season. Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah! 

Oct 7-9, we were visiting Chincoteague Island National seashore and wildlife refuge. These photos are from our 2nd day at the refuge. We watched the sunrise and the sunset, we saw lots of birds, the ponies, dolphins, Sika deer, a snake and butterflies.

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1. Sunrise on the Chincoteague Island National Seashore. 

2.  Brown Pelicans flying by.  

3. Various gulls on the beach. Ring-billed Gull, Laughing Gull and Great Black-backed Gull.

4. Sika Deer seen of the road to the beach. 

5. The Chincoteague ponies are always a favorite sight to see.

6. Warblers and a Brown Thrasher. 

7. A Black Rat Snake on the trail and a Buckeye Butterfly on the beach.

8. The Belted Kingfishers were found in their usual fishing spot.

The White Ibis were seen in high numbers, just one Great Blue Heron in the group below.

We saw 4 Tricolored Herons, below are two of the 4 seen with the White Ibis.

An Osprey flies by. 

A tree decorated with White Ibis.

Plenty of Sanderlings on the beach.  

A Great Blue Heron standing on a dead tree with a pretty sky.

We saw groups of Dolphins swimming by.

To end the day we watched the sun setting at Tom's Cove.

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Saturday's Critters # 574

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

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Oct 7-9th, these photos are from our latest visit to Chincoteague Island NWR Virginia and Blackwater NWR, Cambridge Md. These are some of my favorite places to visit to see wildlife.  

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1. On the way to Chincoteague Island Virginia we pass by Blackwater NWR in Cambridge Maryland.  We drove through the refuge on the wildlife drive one loop before getting back on the road the Virginia. 

2. Chincoteague Ponies, the main attraction for visiting the Chincoteague Island NWR.

3. Belted Kingfisher

4.  Great Egret

5. Gulls, Cormorants and Terns. The Laughing Gull seems to be the most common gull seen at the refuge. The bottom photos shows the gulls with two different Terns, one of the Terns has more of a yellow bill and the other is really orange-red colored bill.  

6. There are a few Terns seen at this wildlife refuge.  The Royal Terns, Caspian Terns and the Forster's Tern. 

The Sanderlings were plentiful and fun to watch on the beach. They like to run back and forth to the water. 

7. Tricolored Herons

8. Chincoteague Island National Seashore.

9. Tom's Cove sunset, Chincoteague Island NWR 

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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