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?

Thanks for your visit today!  I hope you enjoyed my post and photos.

Thanks to the hosting team of Our World Tuesday!

I hope to see you there. Thanks to the host today. Enjoy your day and new week.

As always I thank you for stopping by and as always I appreciate your comments.

George's Creek

  I am linking up with   Mosaic Monday and Our World Tuesday 

Hello, everyone.. Fall is almost here ( starts tomorrow the 22nd)  and I just can not believe how fast the summer went.. We had a cool summer here, not the usual hot & humid days that we are used to.. LOL, I feel cheated..


These are some photos from our weekend walk at our local George's Creek.. it is a creek that leads into our Prettyboy reservoir.. Hubby and I have enjoyed our walks along the creek each time seeing something different..

These are some of the scenes from our walk..the pretty Swallowtail and Fritillary butterflies. Some wildflowers and ferns seen along the creek.

Swallowtail and Fritallary butterflies..

 I am not sure what these little orange flowers are called but, it was obvious the Ruby-throated Hummingbird was enjoying their nectar.

 A sweet hummer, I will miss them when they head south.. I wish I could go with them.  I am not looking forward to this winter..

 Some slider turtles sunning themselves on a log, an Eastern Box Turtle, wildflowers, Fritillary Butterfly and a Canada Goose.

I hope you enjoyed these nature scenes and photos.  I am glad you came along on our walk..

As always I thank you in advance for stopping by and for the nice comments.

I hope you can join in on our at  Mosaic Monday and   Our World Tuesday

 Thanks to Judith our new host of Mosaic Monday and to the hosting group of Our World Tuesday: Arija, Gattina, Lady Fi, Sylvia, Sandy and Jennifer.  I wish everyone a happy week ahead!

Saturday's Critters #22

Saturday's Critters #22

Hello & Happy weekend everyone!

Another Saturday has rolled around and  it's time to share your critters.  I am looking forward to visiting and seeing everyone's critter post. 

My critters are from a few weeks ago when we visited the local Hashawha Nature Center. 

This goose seem to be on guard when we walked past..

A pretty male Mallard floating in the lake among his reflection and lily pads.

I was amazed to see how many turtles were out sunning themselves.  Everywhere we look at the lake and wetlands the turtles were there. 

I am guessing here, but I believe this is called the Midland Painted Turtle, a native turtle of North American, It skin has orange or yellow stripes.

A Canada Goose was sitting on a nest at the nature center. I hope you enjoyed my critter post. Now, I want to see your critters..   I wish everyone a happy weekend.

An InLinkz Link-up

Thank you for linking up to the critter party. I appreciate the visits, comments and the support of my blogging friends..


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

Please visit:  I'd-Rather-B-Birdin. Thanks to the gracious host: Anni of I'd Rather-B-birdin. Also, sharing with Camera Critters. Thanks to Misty for hosting.

Preening Time

I am link up with Green Day  and Camera Critters  and NF Winged 
and Id-rather-b-birdin
These are some shots from last week's visit to Bombay Hook. We saw lots of birds and I managed to capture of lot of birds preening. LOL, I think they spend more time preening than I do.

Above my preening birds are ducks, black-necked stilts, stilt and egret, great blue heron and great egrets.

Preening is an essential part of a bird's daily routine. They are more like humans than I thought. The bird uses their beak to remove any debris, move feathers that are out of place and distribute a special oil that is secreted from a gland at the base of the birds tail. The oil helps to keep the birds feathers healthy and shiny. Kind of like the conditioner I use on my hair? I am just glad the birds do not use makeup, I have seen some scary scenes of some girls putting on mascara while driving down the highway in the morning. I think there are some chicks that need more time preening at home.

Two Great Blue herons preening.

Black necked Stilts preening.

These two are not preening but I liked this shot. When I took the shot I only saw the red-eared slider turtle, after I downloading my photos I saw the cute frog next to the turtle.

I hope you enjoyed my post and critters photos.
To see more beautiful photos and cute critters please visit Fiona's Green Day   and Misty Dawn's  Camera Critters and NF Winged and I'd-rather-b-birdin.
Thanks to the all of the host of these fun memes Fiona the host of Green Day and Misty Dawn the host of Camera Critters and Monica of NF Winged. Anni of I'd Rather-B-Birding asked me to link up. Thanks Anni.  Thank you for stopping by to see my post and for leaving all the nice comments. I appreciate the visits. I wish everyone a safe and happy weekend.