Saturday's Critters # 614

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

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A mish-mash of photos from early August. 

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1. Aug 4th my walk with Miney to the lake. I found a Red-eared Slider Turtle and some Canada Geese across the lake. 

2. Aug 6th, our walk with Miney on the NCR trail. Hubby was walking with us part of the way. 

Below are 3 Black Vultures sitting on top of a large boulder next to the bike trail. Only part of one of the vultures is seen in between the other two. 

3. Aug 7th, A local Prettyboy fire road walk with Miney. 

4. Aug 8th, another walk to the lake with Miney. We saw some Double-crested Cormorants and the Slider Turtles were a distance away. A Northern Flicker perched high on a tree. 

I am sharing a closer look at the Northern Flicker in my yard, they are beautiful birds.

5. Aug 11th,  I have been enjoying watching the Ruby-throated Hummingbirds zooming around my yard. The male likes to sit right on top of the feeder, he guards his feeder from all the other hummingbirds. 

6. Below are the Monarch Butterfly, the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail and the Black Swallowtail. There are times our buddleia bush is filled with butterflies, looks magical. 

The Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly sharing a bloom with a Black Swallowtail. 

7. Flashback Florida 2017, The Roseate Spoonbill has a long flat spoon-shaped bill. This shot shows just how flat the bill is. The first three photos were taken at Lake Parker Park in Lakeland, Fl.

8. Immature Roseate Spoonbills are a paler pink. Their pink color is derived from their diet. They eat frogs and aquatic insects and very small fish. The next two images were taken at the Circle B Bar Reserve in Lakeland Fl.

The Roseate Spoonbills lately are showing up up and down the Atlantic Coast. I believe there were 4-5 in Delaware seen at Bombay Hook NWR and 5-6 in Southern Maryland. 

Sept 15th, there was some excitement in our neighborhood, with a few of our neighbors helping a public works employee having to fend off a bear. The worker was checking out the health of trees in the watershed when a bear was bluff charging her, my neighbors were out walking their dog and tried helping the worker. We are not sure, maybe the bear had cubs it was protecting. The worker had some scratches from a fall and was driven back to the street in a neighbor's 4 wheeler and a policemen with a gun escorted our neighbors back to the road. We were at lunch with the family and missed all this excitement. 

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Saturday's Critters #440

Welcome to Saturday's Critters!

Hello and happy Saturday!

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1. April 21st, our walk to the lake with the dogs, the usual Canada Geese and Double-crested Cormorants were seen hanging out at the lake. 

2. April 23rd, we met up with our son, DIL, Wyatt and Mason for lunch in Hanover Pa. On the way home I saw a Barred Owl sitting on a power line above the road.  

3. April 24th, hubby and I drove to North Point State Park in Baltimore County Md. I was hoping to see Little Blue Herons, they have been seen at this park for years. No luck seeing Little Blues but we did have some great birds and wildlife sightings. 

Below top row, Tree Swallow, Slider Turtles, GB Herons. Middle row are the Caroline Wren, Chipping Sparrow, Eastern Towhee, Bull Frog. Bottom row are the Osprey, Lesser Scaup, male Wood Duck, a pair of Wood Ducks with a Great Blue Heron flying by.

4. I am pretty sure these are the Red-eared Slider Turtles, they were seen all over the wetlands. 

5. A Great Blue Heron flying by, a pair of Wood ducks. The male Wood Duck is on the left and the female tagging behind on the right side of the photo. 

6. The pretty male Wood Duck. 

7. The Tree Swallows love this park, lots of trees and bugs to eat. 

8. We watched three Ospreys flying around near the bay and we found this Osprey below perched high in a tree. 

9.  The Carolina Wren singing loudly right off the trail.  

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Saturday's Critters # 411

Welcome to Saturday's Critters!

Hello and happy Saturday!

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Happy Halloween everyone ! 🎃  👻 

1. Various critters and birds seen the end of September and beginning of October.  A couple of Northern Mockingbirds, Eastern Wood Pewee, Monarch Butterfly, red-eared Slider Turtles.

2. A Northern Mockingbird enjoying the berries. 

3. The Monarch butterflies were being seen as late as Oct 21st on our butterfly bush. 

4. A lighter colored Northern Mockingbird on our Devil's Walking Stick. 

5. From a walk on our local fire road to the lake, we were watching one Slider Turtle sitting on a log.

6. While watching the first larger turtle, a smaller baby turtle crawled out of the water onto the log with the larger turtle. 

This is one of my shorter posts, next week I will share some critters and birds we saw during our latest getaway to the Letchworth State Park in New York.  Thanks always for sharing your post and for all the nice comments. 

PS,  an added extra. Our cute grandson 8 month birthday, a pumpkin for Halloween. He didn't eat the candy, it was just a prop.

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My World, Our World

 Happy Monday!


We are still staying close to home on most days, taking local walks on the fire road and to the lake. We do have many choices which direction to walk and which section of the lake we want to see. These are some views from our walk to the lake on June 28th.

The roadside daylilies are blooming now, we saw some on our walk to the lake and there were some growing by the lake. 

The Chipping Sparrow was sitting on a wire just singing a song.  

 A view of the reservoir, we saw a few fishermen out in their boats. I heard more birds than I saw, here is a little list of birds I heard on my walk: Black-throated Blue Warbler, Pine Warbler, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Worm-eating Warbler, Ovenbird, Northern Cardinal, Mourning Dove, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Northern Parula, Carolina Wren, Eastern Wood-Pewee, White-breasted Nuthatch and the Great Crested Flycatcher.

Not the best lighting, the Eastern Kingbird was seen in a tree next to the lake.  You can just barely make out the white on this bird's tail feathers, a sure sign of it being the Eastern Kingbird.

I noticed the Red-eared Slider Turtle across from us at the cove. 

A different view of the lake, this is a section where the local teenagers like to hang out. I do not mind them hanging out there, I just wish they would not leave behind their trash.  

A beautiful world starts with you, we have one planet to call home. Please take care of our earth, our home.  

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Saturday's Critters #292

Welcome to Saturday's Critters!


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These are some images from our walk on the C&O Canal trail located at Riley's Lock in Potomac Maryland. 

I can always find the Green Herons at this location. They are one of my favorite herons. 

We saw a lot of these Slider Turtles in the canal. They were sitting on piles of mud or trunks trunks sticking out the water.  

There were a lot of dragonflies flying around. 

A couple of Bald Eagles were seen and heard.  There must be a nest nearby. 

A second Green Heron seen along the trail.  I think their rusty neck and colors are beautiful. 

The Green Heron, one of the smallest herons. They can be hard to spot. They blend in well with their surroundings. 

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Happy Monday

Hello and Happy Monday. 

Can you believe how fast the days and month are flying by? I am sharing some images from our walk at the local nature center called  Hashawha. I have done various post on our walks at this park you can check out other post listed on the tags and side bar.


There are two Eastern Bluebirds in the photo below, can you find them?

The American Crow below was talking or fussing about something. 

There were some pretty water lilies in one of the three ponds at Hashawha Nature Center.

One spot along the trail was filled with pretty Bee Balm.

Next to the Bee Balm were these pretty purple flowers. Not sure of their id.

One of the three ponds.

Just a guess, this is a Blue Dasher?

Slider turtles were plentiful.  This one was just a baby.

Torn but still pretty Great Spangled Fritillary butterfly on the milkweed?

Just guessing this is a Window Skimmer?

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