Weekend walk, Oct 6

  I am linking up with Mosaic Monday and Our World Tuesday 

October 6, 2013

Sharing some scenes from our weekend walk on the fireroad and to the lake. Hubby, Goldie Girl and I enjoy our walks on the weekends.

The reservoir, Goldie Girl and pretty reflections.

Goldie Girl enjoying the reflections.

Pretty ferns, Goldie Girl and some colorful fungi.

The fireroad walk, Pileated Woodpecker and some more fungi.  I hope you enjoy these natures scenes, Goldie Girl and the pretty reflections.

 Back in the yard, are some of my warbler yardbirds..the Black-throated Green Warbler and the Cape May Warbler and a cute Ruby-Crowned Kinglet..

As always, I hope you enjoy my post and thanks for visiting my blog. I always appreciate your comments.

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Around the Yard, Oct 4

Saturday, October 4, 2013

Linking up Camera Critters and I'd-Rather-b-birdin  
I hope you are joining in and posting your birds and critters.

These are some scenes from last weekend up thru today.  Mostly sharing shots of my yardbirds, I am never tired of watching my yardbirds. The migrating warblers have been a real treat to see stopping in my yard for some berries. I believe last Saturday was my last sighting of my Ruby-throated Hummingbirds.  I will leave the hummer feeders up in case there are any hummers traveling south and need to stop for a re-fill.

The shot above and the one below are the beautiful Cape May Warbler.

The Nashville Warbler...I was wondering who named the warblers. There are many that have the names of places..like Nashville and Cape May...Tennessee...Connecticut...Canada....Kentucky.

A pretty juvenile Nashville Warbler.

One of my regular year round birds...the Carolina Chickadee.

Possibly my last sighting of the Ruby-throated Humming bird..until next year...see you then.

 Goldie Girl goes for a walk to the lake.

Last but not least..a chipper to make you laugh!!! He/she has a peanut in each cheek and tried to take another. I hope you enjoyed this series of birds and critters.

Thanks for stopping by and  I wish everyone a happy weekend.

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Chincoteague Again

I am linking up with NF Winged   and  Skywatch Friday

I am looking forward to seeing your skies from around the world, I hope you are all joining the Skywatch and join in with NF Winged and share your winged creatures.


I wanted to share more from my Chincoteague Island and wildlife refuge visit. After spending the night we drove up to the beach to watch the sunrise. It was another beautiful morning! A little fog around but it was quickly burnt off once the sun had risen.

A group of Willets along with some Egrets in the early morning fog

We saw some beautiful skies and birds at Chincoteague NWR, perfect for my Skywatch and NF Winged post.

I like the Egret reflections on this shot.

A flock of Black Skimmers in flight.

Above Snowy Egrets with their dark bills and legs with a couple of juvenile Glossy Ibis.

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Red-eyed Vireo

I am linking up with Wild Bird Wednesday and Nature Notes

October 1, 2013

 This week I am featuring my Red-eyed Vireo. He/she showed up with a group of warblers one day.

The Red-eyed Vireo was posing so nicely for me, I just had to take some photos. Wikipedia calls the Red-eyed Vireo a small songbird, somewhat warbler like.  That is what I thought at first, I was sure I was seeing a Worm-eating warbler. The warbler also has the dark stripes on its head and near its eye.

Above is one of my archived photos of a Worm -eating Warbler..It was seen in the woods near my house. You can see a similarity between the two birds.

The Vireo seemed happy to show me different sides and poses. The adult Red-eyed Vireo is olive-green with white underparts. They have a red iris and a grey-crown edged with black and there is a blackish line thru the eyes.

They like to eat berries, which probably brought them to my yard.  I have tons of pokeberries and the devil's walking stick berries and there may have been some blueberries still hanging on the bushes.

I am still seeing different warblers moving thru my yard, I guess they are all happy with the berries and maybe some bugs. I hope you enjoyed my post and wildbird this week. As always, thanks for visiting my blog and for the nice comments.

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Fifteen Mile Creek C&O trail

  I am linking up with Mosaic Monday and Our World Tuesday 

September 29, 2013

On Saturday, hubby and I headed to a new section of the C&O canal trail in western Maryland. The trail is 184.5 miles long. Usually we start our walking around mile 14 which is where the Great Falls National Park is located in Potomac, Md.  Yesterdays walk started around mile 140 at a place called Fifteen Mile Creek in the town of Little Orleans. The Autumns colors were here and there, definitely not the peak time yet.

Above is a view from the Sidelong Hill  rest area off of RT68.. not many fall colors here.

Across the river, we saw one pretty tree standing out among all the green leaves.Little glimpses of the Potomac River and some colorful leaves.

There were some pretty colors here and there along the canal trail, as you can see most of the trees were still green.We only walked up to mile 142, stopping along the way to check out the views and look for birds.

We saw a flock of Canada Geese in the Potomac River as we walked along the C&O canal trail. Other birds seen were the Pileated woodpecker and the Carolina Wren.  I also saw some Whitetail deer along the road. We headed a little further out to the Rocky Gap Casino, hubby had an offer of some free play and we figured why not since we were in the area. He played his free $15 and won $55.  Not bad, congrats to hubby.

Above, is the lake at Rocky Gap which you can see from the Rocky Gap Resort or the state park which is also nearby.  Rocky Gap is located in Cumberland Maryland off of RT68. You can have a great choice of activities at Rocky Gap, hiking, canoeing, golf course and the casino of course.
 

As always, I hope you enjoy my post and thanks for visiting my blog. I always appreciate your comments.

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 Thanks to our host: Mary our 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!