Viewing nature with Eileen

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Happy October everyone, I wish you a great month ahead! 

Photos may look familiar, but they have not been shared till now. They are from different walks on the NCR trail, the local fire roads and my back yard. 

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1. Aug 20th, scenes from the NCR trail in the Parkton area. Miney at the bridge looking down stream. 

From the trail, I could see a Red-shouldered Hawk sitting on a fence. 

2. I am guessing this is shelf or bracket fungi. It reminds me of a 3 tier bird bath or fountain. 

3. Aug 21, my backyard Monarch butterflies. I was able to capture to Monarch butterflies close together on our butterfly bush. 

4. Aug 22nd, our walk to Prettyboy lake with Miney and hubby. 

5. I heard a lot of birds, but this Great Blue Heron was the only bird I captured with my camera. 

6. My flashback photos are from Curacao 2012, the Crested Caracara was a treat to see standing next to the road acting like a vulture. This bird is also known as a Mexican Eagle. It is seen in only a few southern US states. 

8. More Flashback images from Florida 2017, one of my favorite birds seen in Florida was the Crested Caracara. This bird behaves like a vulture but it is a falcon. Often seen walking on the ground and eating off of a carcass. 

A tall bird, has yellowish-orange legs and a black cap.

 

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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  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!

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. 

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. 

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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Thank you for sharing your critters and post!