Saturday's Critters # 662

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

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"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir

As usual, I am sharing my dog Miney and our walks on the trails, birds from my yard and the local watershed fire roads. 

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1. I am addicted to the Merlin App, I have it on during everyone of my walks with Miney.  I included one of my Goldfinch photos with the Merlin app screenshot.

Below one of my Cardinal photos is added to the Merlin Screenshot.

2. July 8, walk with Miney on our local Prettyboy fire road. This local fire road trail is mostly covered with pine needles, which makes walking so much easier. The weeds and grasses are taking over some of our other local trails. They need to come and cut the grass on the trails, I am sure the ticks and bugs love the long grass. 

" A walk in nature walks the soul back home."

 

Above I included the Chipping Sparrow image and below is the House Finch image.

3. I am sticking to the same trail for walking Miney, we walk till we come to the downed tree and then turn around and go back home. 

"An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day."

The  Scarlet Tanager is a breeder in the Prettyboy Watershed, I can recognize their calls while I am out walking Miney.

The Pine Warbler is another breeder in our local Prettyboy Watershed, I hear them calling off the trail and they sometimes visit my deck for some food. 

4. Miney loves her walk on the fire road! 

You can see the reservoir is still low, the water usually is up to the trees. The Killdeer are enjoying the muddy area and the geese love the grasses that are growing.

5. A zoomed in look at a Killdeer, I saw 8-10 Killdeer running around the muddy area. 

Killdeer

A Bald Eagle spooked the Killdeer flying in and making the Killdeer take off and fly around. The Eagle landed in a tree and the Killdeer went back to their spot on the mud.

Prettyboy Merlin birds, from our walk to the reservoir.

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Saturday's Critters # 648

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

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"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir

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1. Our walk on the local fire road with hubby and Miney. Hubby has his favorite rest stop, Miney is like the Energizer Bunny, she can keep going on and on. 

2. Back at home on the deck and on our roof, the Peacock always feels at home.  

3. I have been seeing a Northern Flicker pecking away at our grass and weeds, I assume finding bugs to eat. 

4. The Chipping Sparrows were one of the early Spring birds to arrive in my yard. They are cute and have a pretty sound too. 

5. The Pine Warbler is one of my favorite yard birds, the male is seen below with his pretty yellow color. Images are new, they may look like I have shown on previous posts.

6. Miney is always on guard while sitting out on our deck.  

7. One morning, we took our walk on the local George's Creek trail. George's Creek dumps into the Prettyboy Reservoir. It was a good morning, filled with bird songs, my Merlin App picked up 36 different bird songs.  It was a mixed of our winter birds like the Ruby-crowned Kinglet bottom left photo, White-throated Sparrow, Brown Creeper and some summer birds like the Gray Catbird, Barn Swallows, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher top left photo, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Common Yellowthroat and Louisiana Waterthrush. 

The Merlin App was on while we hiked the George's Creek trail. It was neat to hear the wild turkeys across the creek.

8. On our walk we saw some wildflowers and ran into one of our neighbors Linda out walking her two labradors. Linda pointed out the trout lilies in the top photo on left, bottom left are the May Apples they were not in bloom at the time , there were lots of the purple violets and dandelions.  

On the NCR bike trail , I saw and heard the Belted Kingfisher along with some other regular birds.

Merlin App on the NCR trail in Parkton, Md.

"An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day."

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.

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Saturday's Critters # 645

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

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"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir

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I am sharing a mish-mash of photos, my back yard birds and our dog Miney, the neighborhood Peacock, views from the fire road walks and the bike trail walk. I can hear a FOY Eastern Phoebe calling in my yard too, no photos yet. 

1. At this time our weather was finally warming up some, Spring still seems far off, the scenery of bare trees and fallen leaves on the fire road walk with Miney. The Prettyboy reservoir is still low due to the drought. 

2. On some of our busier days, I just take Miney for a walk up and down our street.  She is happy still lots of smells around. 

3. My backyard birds, are the Blue Jay and the Cardinals. They are always looking for the peanut nuggets. 

4. At the NCR trail, the sled dogs are finished their run and getting ready to go back into their transport vehicle. 

5. Scenes from our walk on the NCR Bike trail. The sled dogs were packing up to go home, we saw some icicles hanging off a boulder along the trails. Our weather has up and down like a yo-yo, warms days and still some very cold days.

6. There were lots of Canada Geese hanging out on the Friendly Farm Ponds. There were some ducks but too far away to see which species. 

7. The Peacock will come up on our deck sometimes, looking for food or just to hang out. 

8. The male Pine Warbler has found my feeders. I've been hearing them calling a lot lately.  They are breeding in the forest around our home. 

9. The tarp covering our wood piles gets blown around in the high winds we were having.  The Peacock loves to sit on the wood pile. 

Bonus image, one of our birthday gifts to the grandsons was a little jeep they could ride in. I think they love it. It is an outside ride, but my son just put it together. 

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.

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Saturday's Critters # 644

 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!

"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir

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Heads up April 22nd is Earth Day, we can help by participating in activities such as planting trees, cleaning up your neighborhood, reduce your use of plastics.

1. Some of my back yard critters, the Peacock likes to sit on top of our wood pile.  

I think I bought this moose 30 years ago, it is made of heavy iron. After a trip to the Tetons and Yellowstone I decided Moose were one of my many favorite critters. I had to have a moose in my back yard. 

2. At this time our weather was beautiful for taking our walks with Miney. On this day hubby and I took our walk on the NCR bike trail in Parkton Md. I heard and saw my FOY Eastern Phoebe. 

The Eastern Phoebe has a call that sounds like fee-bee. It almost sounds like it is saying it's own name and feed-me, lol.  

Miney checking out the NCR trail, looking for people, dogs and deer.  

"The wildlife and it's habitat cannot speak, so we must and we will."

3. Below on this day it was just me and Miney taking the walk.  Hubby is tired on the days he has dialysis. Below are views of the Prettyboy Reservoir, it is really low, parts of the lake look more like a stream. 

4. An early morning walk with just me and Miney, our walk on the local fire road at Prettyboy Watershed.

"Nature is not a place to visit, it is home."

Two birds below were heard on my walk with Miney, the Eastern Bluebird was one I heard often.

The Pine Warbler is a breeder in the Prettyboy Watershed, I've been hearing these birds calling a lot while I was on my walk.  The photo below is one of my archive images, the Pine Warbler used to visit my feeders. The male is a beautiful bright yellow color.

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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