Saturday's Critters # 564

 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!

These are images from August, as usual I am behind sharing my photos. The photos are from my backyard, our walks to the lake, a walk on the NCR bike trail and on the local fire roads. I have more Alaska photos to share, they are coming soon.

1. In August I seemed to be refilling my hummingbird feeders often. This male below sits close-by one feeder, chasing away any hummingbird that comes close. 

2. The Fritillary Butterfly along with the Black Swallowtails are common butterflies seen on our Buddleia Bush. 

3. Aug 11, one of my backyard Ruby-throated Hummingbirds. On the bottom row are the Tufted Titmouse.

4. Aug 16th my back yard bunny.

Our walk on the local fire road I found an Ovenbird, it was quiet and seemed to be watching us. 

5. Aug 18th , our walk to the lake. We saw a juvenile Bald Eagle, a Green Heron and the Canada Goose.

6. Aug 19th, a Black Bear was seen on our deck and it got into our trash can. This visit was almost  a month later than the previous bear visit. We thought it would be safe to put out our trash can.  The bear also drank water from the bowl we had out for the Peacock.  The previous Black Bear visit was on July 11th. I am not sure if this recent bear was one of the two that visited in July. The first bear sighting was on May 3rd, we were walking on our local fire road and we saw the bear foraging in forest along the trail. It is amazing we have seen more bears in our back yard than we saw in Alaska. 

7. Aug 20th our walk on the local NCR bike trail. We saw a few deer, wildflowers and an Eastern Phoebe hanging out near the river.

8. Aug 23rd, I finally was able to find two Monarch butterflies on our Buddleia Bush. Bottom row more common butterflies seen were the Fritillary butterflies. 

Aug 30th, the male Cardinal flies to the deck railing when he sees me come outside with the bag of peanut nuggets.

Aug 31st, our walk on one of the local fire roads at Prettyboy watershed. The birds on the top right photo are two Eastern Kingbirds, a Box Turtle, insects on milkweed plant, Eastern Phoebe and a White-breasted Nuthatch.

This post takes me to the end of August, except for two days we visited Bombay Hook NWR in Delaware. I will share those photos in a separate post.  

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 # 354

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 some birds and critters from my back yard, photos were taken the middle 2 weeks of September. 


The Ruby-throated Hummingbird, 2 were still being seen on Sept 20th.

 

 

 

 

I was trying to video the hummingbird and butterflies at the buddleia when I notice there were 2 frogs in our little pond.  

 

 

  Painted Lady on the Buddleia and a Red-spotted Purple Butterfly on the Devil's Walking Stick berries.

 

 Looking out my dining room window, I thought I saw my neighbors dog loose on the driveway, but it turned out to be a small deer.

 

Thanks to all my visitors and for all the wonderful comments. Stop back to see any replies to your comments. I appreciate everyone who loves critters and has linked up their critter post.


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Thankful Thursday

Hello, 

Happy Thankful Thursday, I try to rememmber there is always something to be thankful for.  I may be away from the internet but will catch up as soon as possible. I am sharing the second day of our Shenandoah trip, since staying the night at Skyland we were up early to watch the sunrise.

We woke up early to see the sunrise and then went back to the Skyland lodge for breakfast. 

A cloudy start to our day but we still have a great day in the park.

Deer along the Skyline Drive.

This deer looks like it has a sac it is licking , maybe a baby deer being born. 

A Downy Woodpecker

"Take a quiet walk with Mother Nature, it will nurture your mind, body and soul." unknown

Dark Hallow Falls.

A Louisiana Waterthrush at Dark Hallow Falls.

An Eastern Towhee

Some deer on the Big Meadows. 

"The wildlife and it's habitat can not speak, so we must and we will." Theodore Roosevelt

More deer along the Skyline Drive. 

I am thankful for the simple pleasures like watching the sunrise.

I am thankful to have made this trip to Shenandoah NP.

I am thankful for all your visits and comments. 

Thank you Michelle for hostingHappy Monday, enjoy your day and new week! Thankful Thursday

Thank you to the hosts of   Skywatch Friday

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

Happy Thankful Thursday!

Happy Thursday, everyone! I hope you all have a great day!

Recently hubby and I went on an overnight trip to Shenandoah National Park. We stayed at the Skyland Resort in a nice room with a balcony. 

This is a view from one of the overlooks on the Skyline Drive. We started the drive at Front Royal and drove down the Skyline Drive to Skyland, Big Meadows and a little past Big Meadows. 

We walked on the Big Meadows, a little windy but it was a warmer wind.

We spent the night at the Skyland lodge and hotel. Our room was on the second floor and we had a great view of the valley from our balcony. 

There were Robins all over the place. 

 We saw lots of deer later in the evening and in the early morning 

We did see a lot of wild turkeys along the drive and in the woods. 

We took a walk the first day on the Limberlost Trail. Along the trail we heard and saw some Blue-headed Vireo's, Hermit Thrush and Juncos. 

Till this trip we missed seeing the sunset/sunrises at Shenandoah NP. We went on many day trips and left way before sunset to drive home. Years ago we went on many camping trips to Shenandoah NP, my days of camping and sleeping on the ground are long gone.

I am thankful to see the wildlife, like the deer and wild turkeys.

I am thankful for the beautiful sunsets, a simple pleasure I enjoy.

I am thankful for all your visits and comments. 

Thank you Michelle for hostingHappy Monday, enjoy your day and new week! Thankful Thursday

Thank you to the hosts of   Skywatch Friday

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

Saturday's Critters #200

Welcome to Saturday's Critters!

If you love critters 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, this is my 200th Critter party post. Sorry, I do not have anything exciting planned for this 200th post. I do want to thank all my blogger friends for participating. I love seeing all your critters and I hope you keep those critter posts coming.  Again, I thank everyone for sharing your post and linking up and commenting! I hope you get a chance to visit the blog post and comment.

I am sharing some images from a day trip to Shenandoah Nat'l park. We saw a lot of deer along the Skyline Drive and lots of birds. We hiked on a few trails and enjoyed our lunch at the Big Meadows campstore.

This buck was standing along side the Skyline Drive. It was too busy eating to move away.

A Field Sparrow at the Big Meadows.

Eastern Bluebird at the Big Meadows.

American Goldfinch at the Big Meadows.

A white-tailed Deer next to the Appalachian Trail.

I am joining in with this post to Tom's The Barn Collective

I was able to zoom in on this farm and barns from the Appalachian Trail.

I appreciate and thank everyone who links up their post and for all the wonderful comments! I hope you enjoy my post and photos too!

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Thanks to Tom for hosting The Barn Collective

Happy Saturday, enjoy your weekend!

Saturday's Critters #166

Saturday's Critters #166

Happy Saturday, it's time to share your critters and post. Any kind of critter will do, even a new or old post.. I appreciate everyone who is linking in with this week's critter party.

To all the animal lovers, we need the EPA Keep the EPA GREAT and Audubon take action

It was thanks to the EPA that our Eagles have made such a great come back. Banning the pesticides (DDT) is important, going back to no regulations is bad for the environment, the wildlife, our drinking water and clean air. Call your representative and support the EPA. The Endangered Species act is at risk too, so much is at stake. People need to speak up for the wildlife, the critters have no voice.

During our trip to the Sanibel Island and the Gulf Coast  we made time for a visit to the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary. On the way into the Preserve, we saw a herd of deer, wild turkeys and some Sandhill Cranes. 

Outside the visitor center, we were being watched by this raccoon.

While walking the boardwalk we saw this Pileated Woodpecker.

The first time I heard an alligator hissing was while watching this baby gator under the boardwalk. It appears momma was just on the other side of the boardwalk. I think she was warning us to keep our distance.

The Limpkins were around the boardwalk and marshland.

You can not go to a Florida park or preserve and not see an alligator.

This Limpkin preferred walking on the boardwalk railing.

This Little Blue Heron was also perched on the boardwalk railing.

I hope you enjoyed our visit to Corkscrew Sanctuary and my photos.



As always thanks for the visits and the nice comments. I also thank everyone who is linking up and sharing their critters.. Happy Saturday, have a great weekend!

To see more beautiful birds and cute critters, check out these two memes below.

Also visit:  I'd-Rather-B-Birdin. Thanks to the gracious host: Anni.  Also check out Camera Critters. Thanks to Misty for hosting this fun meme.