Showing posts with label White tailed deer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label White tailed deer. Show all posts

Saturday, December 28, 2024

Saturday's Critters # 576



  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!


Wow, December just flew by. This year 2024, has been good we enjoyed two big trips and lots of little getaways. In April we were traveling all over Arizona and in early August we enjoyed our trip to Alaska.  I am hoping to do some traveling in 2025. 


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1. As always still behind posting, these are from Oct 3rd. We were still seeing our flowers blooming and butterflies visiting. My backyard birds on this day were the Carolina Wren, Mockingbird and the Tufted Titmouse.





2. Oct 5th, a Praying Mantis sitting on our deck railing, possible butterfly id is a Fritillary, Red-bellied Woodpecker, a Downy Woodpecker seen on the NCR Bike trail. 





3. Oct 6th, I had about 6 Eastern Bluebirds checking out all my bird houses. They are always a treat to see.





4. Oct 10th, not a critter image but we were able to see the Northern Lights from our deck.  My son also saw the Northern Lights from his house, bottom left photo. 






5. Oct 12, the Northern Flicker and the Peacock sitting on our deck and in the side yard a Cooper's Hawk watching over our yard. We have not seen the peacock for over a month now, not sure why he is missing. I am hoping he is safe at his real home up the street. 





6. Oct 15th, the photos are from our walk to the lake. The only birds seen were the Double-crested Cormorants. The fall colors were looking pretty. We saw a couple of horseback riders on the trail across the lake.






7. Oct 17th, in my backyard the Eastern Bluebirds were still being seen around our birdhouses. The Downy Woodpecker on our deck and my first of the season a Dark-eye Junco. 







8. Oct 18th, we took a walk on the local NCR bike trail. The dog sled team was out for a practice run on the trail. A deer walked across the trail in front of me and second deer came running across the trail. We road past the Friendly Farms ponds and notice a Great Egret was still hanging out with the usual Canada Geese. 





9. Oct 27th, from our walk to another part of the Prettyboy Reservoir. A little group of Canada Geese in flight and a Northern Flicker. 






10. Oct 28th, another walk on the NCR trail. We saw a group of deer on the trail. They did not seem spooked and stood and watched us. A Dark-eyed Junco and an unknown Hawk perched in a nearby tree. 





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 in 2024. 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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Thursday, October 25, 2018

Shenandoah Nat'l Park Part II

Happy Thankful Thursday! Wishing everyone a great day!


These are some more images from our overnight trip to Shenandoah Nat'l Park.  We were able to get to the park just in time to see the sun rise.The Falls colors were just not there, we were told maybe the first week of November. That seems pretty late to me. 



Sunrise from an overlook on the Skyline Drive.


Me and hubby's shadows.


White-tailed deer on the Skyline Drive.


We took a few hikes on the Bearfence Mountain trail and our favorite Limberlost trail. 



We head up and away from the Appalachian trail on the Bearfence mountain trail to the overlook.



The overlook view from Bearfence Mountain.




 We saw some deer and lots of birds along the Limberlost trail. 


A white-tailed deer.


A female Purple Finch with a seed in it's mouth.


This is the Ruby-crowned Kinglet.


I think this bird below is the Hermit Thrush, they are known to has a reddish tail.



I am thankful for my wildlife sightings, always a treat to see birds and critters.
I am thankful for our overnight getaways.
am always thankful for all your visits and comments. 


Thank you Michelle for hosting Thankful Thursday
Thank you to the hosts of   Skywatch Friday


Happy Thursday, enjoy your day!

Thanks so much for visiting and for your nice comments on my previous post. Have a happy day!

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Just being thankful

I am linking up with Mosaic Monday and Our World Tuesday

This was the first year in maybe 20 years I did not have Thanksgiving dinner at my house. We were all invited to my sisters house for dinner. I was asked to bring dessert which was my homemade Derby pie and a Pumpkin roll. I am thankful for my hubby and son, my family and my job that allows me to take my vacations. I was even thankful for having a furlough day on Black Friday. Not to go shopping but, hubby and I were able to take a day trip to Blackwater NWR and Hoppers Island on the Eastern shore of Maryland. It was a beautiful day. So below are a couple of  photos from my sister's, we had a nice sighting of the white tailed deer in her backyard. The deer were having their own Thanksgiving dinner. Other photos are from Friday's visit to Blackwater NWR and Hoopers Island.







Some of the Blackwater birds above are the Eagle, Killdeer, swans and lots of Canada Geese.









I am thankful for the simple things in life like watching deer and the birds. Seeing beautiful scenery and lovely skies.

A Blackwater NWR scene, birds seen were lots of eagles, canada geese, swans, some shorebirds and Great Blue Herons.

Great Blue Heron at Blackwater NWR

Hooper Island on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland.

Female Long Tailed duck seen at Hoopers Island, Md. Looks like the ducks are migrating now, we saw this Long-Tailed and the Buffleheads.




 

I am thankful for the simple things like watching the sunset from my deck.

To see more wonderful  mosaics Mosaic Monday and some post from around the world  Our World Tuesday. Thanks to mary for hosting Mosaic Monday and thanks to the gang at Our World: Sylvia, Gattina, Lady Fi, Arija and Sandy.

Thanks, also for stopping by to visit my blog. I hope everyone has a safe and wonderful week.

Happy Monday!

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