Viewing nature with Eileen

   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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I have a mish-mash of photos and critters, sharing birds from my backyard and some from my archives. I am happy that I do not have to go further than my back yard to enjoy nature.  

1. The Peacock is a regular visitor to our yard especially on the milder weather days.  He landed on top of our car one day. 

Another day we came home from dialysis and he was on our deck railing. 

2. The Cardinal likes to sit in our blueberry bush, maybe protection from raptors or the mean Mockingbird. 

3. Some of my backyard birds on the feeders are the Carolina Chickadee and the American Goldfinch.

4. More of my backyard feeders birds, the Dark-eyed Junco, Downy Woodpecker, White-throated Sparrow and a Carolina Wren. 

Below are various Nuthatches, three are seen either in my backyard or in Southern Maryland and one was seen in Colorado in the Rocky Mountain NP. 

First is the Brown-headed Nuthatch seen in the Blackwater Wildlife Refuge in Cambridge Maryland. I have seen this bird more along the coastal areas of the Mid-Atlantic states. 

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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!

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

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1. Due to the weather and a bad ice/snow storm, our grandson's birthday party had to be postponed.  We were finally able to celebrate Mason's 4th birthday on Feb 1st.  Below are Winnie the grand-dog, Sophie and Mason playing with the airplanes. 

2. The neighborhood Peacock has been seen laying on our driveway, maybe the ground feels warmer from the sunshine. It has been super cold, our neighbor has put a heat lamp on his porch for the Peacock to have a warm roost at night.

3. Not sure if your see through the tall pine tree, but the Power Company is cutting down and trimming some of the trees. We had a huge dead tree across the driveway in the forest that if it fell it would be on top of our house. They took down 3 dead trees and left the wood on the ground.  There were two trucks that had these tall white towers that held up the bucket for the guy doing the cutting.  I am glad it all went safely.  

The tree trimming company trimmed all the trees on our front yard too.  

4. The food I put out for the birds disappears quickly, I am seeing Blue Jays, Tufted Titmouse, Carolina Chickadees, Dark-eyed Juncos and White-throated Sparrows. 

The American Birding Association has named the Horned Lark as the 2026 Bird of the Year.  These images are from my archives. I have seen the Horned Lark along the road at Bombay Hook NWR and along the rural back roads in my area during the winter.

My photos are not the best taken from the car window. I believe my photos are of the female Horned Lark. 

Feb 2-4 in my local bird news, a Crested Caracara has been seen in the Prettyboy area.  I have not seen this bird in my neighborhood but it has been seen a few times by various birders in the Prettyboy Reservoir area.  I would say it is a rare sighting to see a Crested Caracara in Maryland. I can only assume the last storm we had brought this bird to our area.   My sighting and the photo below was in Florida and other sightings were in Costa Rica. I will be watching over my yard to see if it flies by, wishful thinking.  

"May the miracles of nature fill your soul with the colors of joy." Mary Davis

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!

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

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1. The Peacock visits our deck late January, he feels safe as long as Miney is inside the house.  Just days later the yard was covered with snow. 

2.  Miney does not seem to mind the snow, she likes going outside.  

3. Not a critter but I thought it was a pretty skywatch. One evening I watched the sunset turn the sky pink/purple and the trees were still covered with ice/snow.

From my archives I am sharing various critters seen during our travels. 

A group of adult and juvenile Bald Eagles seen at the Neah Bay marina, Washington state. 

 Below are two moose, a mama and her calf seen in the Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.

6. Seals seen at the Nisqually NWR in Washington state.

From our visit to a sheep farm in Ireland.

A herd of elk seen off the road to the Olympic coastline in Washington state.

Seen off the wildlife drive in the Savannah NWR in Georgia, we saw a baby alligator sitting on top of a turtle. 

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! 

      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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I am sharing a mish-mash of images taken on various dates. They include  my back yard birds, local fire road and reservoir scenes and some archive images. 

1. On our deck railing a Dark-eyed Junco was taking a break from the feeder. 

Hubby, Miney and I took walk on the fire road at Prettyboy and then we drove around the lake to the boat dock.  Usually in the winter months we see various ducks, geese and sometimes an Eagle. we saw a few ducks too far away to id and a large group of Canada Geese. 

Same day as above, the peacock is still visiting on a cold winter day. He is walking around on our driveway. 

2. Hubby and I took a ride out to get some milk and decided to take a short detour around the lake to look for some winter ducks.  We only saw some Canada Geese on the reservoir and a juvenile Bald Eagle perched in a tree near the boat dock. 

3. After our Christmas dinner hubby and I took Miney for a short walk on the fire road.  

4. We celebrated Christmas with our son, dil and the grandkiddies on Christmas Eve. Grand-dog Winnie had to sniffed the toy fox for Sophie. 

5. One of my favorite species of birds I have been able to see are the Booby species.  I have been lucky to see the Brown Booby and the split Cocos Booby, the Masked Booby, the Red-footed Booby, the Blue-footed Booby. These photos are all from my archives. 

The Brown Booby below was seen while we were on a shuttle boat to the island of St. Johns in the Caribbean. 

6. Cocos Booby the photos below were taken from boat ride to the Marietas Islands in Puerto Vallarta Mexico 2023. 

7. The Masked Booby was seen on the island of Oahu, Hawaii..

8. The Red-footed Booby was seen at the Kilauea Point Lighthouse NWR, Kauai 2022. 

9. The Blue-footed Booby below, the photo was taken from boat ride to the Marietas Islands in Puerto Vallarta Mexico 2023. 

Bonus image:  I want to wish a very 4th HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my grandson Mason.

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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