Saturday's Critters! # 575

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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 # 521

Welcome to Saturday's Critters!

Hello and happy Saturday!

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I am continuing with my last post on our visit to Chincoteague Island NWR. Oct 11th, was our last morning at Chincoteague before the drive home. We started off with the sunrise on the beach, watching hundreds of Swallows feeding on insects at Tom's Cove and the usual waders seen along road to the beach.

1. Starting off our day with a pretty sunrise at Chincoteague. 

"Nature unfolds her treasure at the first ray of sunrise."

2. I like this shot of the gull walking toward me, I believe it is a juvenile Laughing Gull. 

3.  Near the beach I parked facing Tom's Cove,  we enjoyed watching this large group of swallows flying around the wetland grasses , there must have been lots of bugs for the swallows to eat.

4.  Along the road to the beach, a Belted Kingfisher was sitting in a dead tree overlooking the water. 

5. We saw a large flock of White Ibis, a Great Egret and two Tricolored Herons. 

6. One of the Tricolored Herons looked upset to share the space. 

7. The Chincoteague ponies are always a treat to see if they come up close, this was the closest we were able to see them.  

8. There were two foals mixed in with the older group.

9. A pretty Great Egret taking a break.  

We enjoyed our 2 days at Chincoteague, the beach scene and the birds are always a beautiful sight to see. I hope you enjoyed my post.

Tomorrow is my hubby's birthday, Happy Birthday Hubby!

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Saturday's Critters # 520

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Oct 10th, we are on our little getaway to Chincoteague Island NWR in Virginia. It is one of my favorite places to visit. We love the beach, all the birds and the Chincoteague ponies. We started the day with the sunrise at the beach and ended the day with the sunset over Tom's Cove. 

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1. A beautiful sunrise over the Atlantic Ocean and Chincoteague Island NWR. 

2. Some photos taken from the car on the way to the beach, we saw a few Great Blue Herons, Double-crested Cormorant and a Belted Kingfisher. 

3. Along the same road was a juvenile Little Blue Heron, Great Blue Herons, Great Egrets and White Ibis. 

4. The Chincoteague ponies are a highlight of this trip for me. 

5. The Great Egrets were looking beautiful. 

6. We saw large groups of Sanderlings on the beach. 

7. Below are Chincoteague Scenes, the Assateague Island Lighthouse, Tom's Cove visitor center and boardwalk trail, American Oystercatcher.

8. I found a few butterflies, while walking on the Tom's cove trail, we saw a few Monarchs and the Common Buckeye. 

9. Below are some of the birds seen along the wildlife drive, I was expecting to see more birds along this drive. Birds numbers are down, I could count all the birds I saw on the drive on my two hands. 

10. The sunset at Tom's Cove with lots of Gulls flying around.  

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Saturday's Critters # 410

Welcome to Saturday's Critters!

 Hello and happy Saturday!

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I have lots more photos from our getaway trip to Chincoteague Island Virginia. The Chincoteague Island NWR and National Seashore are favorite places for us to visit. These images are from our 2nd day of our 3 day trip.  There were lots of ponies and birds to see, the sunrises and the sunsets. 

1. Atlantic Ocean sunrise on the beach with the Sanderlings, Tricolored Heron, rabbit, Brown Pelicans with Gulls, juvenile Little Blue Herons with Tricolored Heron and Yellowlegs, Black Skimmer with Terns and Gulls, American Oystercatchers and a Green Heron.

BTW, if I am wrong with any of my bird id's I do not mind being corrected.  Please let me know. 

2. A mix of juvenile Little Blue herons, one Tricolored Heron, guessing at the Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs and one Great Egret. 

3. Double-crested Cormorant, Black Skimmers and I am guessing the larger Terns could be the Royal Tern at 20 inches. The Royal Tern at 20 inches looks bigger than the 18in Black Skimmer standing nearby.

4. Chincoteague ponies, some of the egrets had a pony ride.

5. Ponies, Egrets and on the far right is a Tricolored Heron  flying by.

6. Two American Oystercatcher with a Gull.

7. White Ibis, juvenile White Ibis and a Snowy Egret mixed in. I had to zoom in for a close look at all those pink legs.  

8. Chincoteague National Seashore beach, a mixed of White Ibis with various Egrets and herons, two deer standing near the wildlife drive and a sunset at Tom's Cove. 

9. Various White Ibis, Snowy Egret and why does the larger white bird have a dark colored bill? Is it a young Great Egret without the yellow bill?

10. Numerous White Ibis and various Snowy and Great Egrets.

11. The end of day 2, sunset at Tom's Cove Chincoteague Island NWR.

If you are ever in the area, I highly suggest visiting the Chincoteague Island National Wildlife refuge. I hope you enjoyed my post and photos. I am looking forward to seeing your critter post. 

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Saturday's Critters #358

Welcome to Saturday's Critters!

Hello and happy Saturday!


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I always enjoy seeing the Chincoteague wild ponies, even a distant view is nice. We saw so many birds during our recent Chincoteague visit, in early October. I will share some of my favorites, photos were taken mostly from the car or our walks on the trails. 

 

 

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 1.  A view from the beach road, two Great Egret close by and the larger flock of White Ibis and Egrets seen further in the distance.

 

 

2. Below are some of Chincoteague's wild ponies.

3. We saw the Bald Eagle on the ground twice while driving the wildlife drive, both times it took off and flew somewhere. An empty nest is nearby. 

 

 

4. Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge has wooded trails, I was looking for the Brown-headed Nuthatch. I could hear them but every time I tried for a photo they moved. I did catch the Red-breasted Nuthatch and the White-breasted Nuthatch. 

 

 

 

5.  The American Oystercatchers were seen on the bayside of the island.  You can't miss seeing that red-orange bill.

 

 

 6. We saw the Belted Kingfishers numerous times in different parts of the refuge.

 7.  Some times the flock of White Ibis and Egrets would fly from one side of the road to the other side.  Not sure why, something upset them?

 

 

 

 

8. The White Ibis have red legs and bill. A juvenile below has brown back and wings, it will turn white gradually.

 

 

 

 

 

9.  A few Tricolored Herons, they so looked funny running around in circles. I think they were trying to catch food.

 

 

 

 

 

10. Below is the taller Great Egret with the smaller Snowy Egret.

 

11.  Another shot of a wild pony, can you find the Canada Goose in the photo?

 

 

 

 

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