Thankful Thursday

Happy Thankful Thursday! 

Hello, I wish everyone a happy day. 

For awhile we seemed to be missing the big heavy rain and snow storms. It was like they would start and then fizzle out. We did get one big snow the third week of March. One day hubby and I took a walk at the top part of our lake, the water levels were very low.

The top part of our lake just looks like a small stream. It was a pretty sky day!

During most of our latest walks we have been seeing a lot of Common Mergansers. These were far across the lake where the water is deeper.

This is a view of the middle section of our lake. Now there is a beach where there was water.

Just across the lake in the photo above is the Bald Eagle nest. I tried to zoom in for a look but with this fuzzy photo you can just make out the white head of the Bald Eagle.

Back at home the Goldfinches were enjoying the new thistle sock.

I am thankful for the birds outside my windows.

I am thankful for rain and snow even though I prefer warm sunny days.

I am thankful for all your visits and comments. 

Thank you Michelle for hosting. Thankful Thursday

Thank you to the hosts of   Skywatch Friday

Thanks so much for visiting and for your nice comments on my previous post. Have a happy day!

Saturday's Critters #224

Welcome to Saturday's Critters!

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!

Happy Easter everyone!

These are some of my more recent neighborhood and backyard bird photos.  The Great Blue Herons are nesting in the woods across from my driveway, they can be seen daily and heard making their weird noises. I took some shots also from the nearby fire road of the GB Heron on the nest. We have our very own neighborhood heronry.


Great Blue Heron picking off tree branches for it's nest. 

Great Blue Heron on nest.

Common Mergansers and one Bufflehead Duck on our lake.

American Goldfinches

Pine Warbler

A female Red-bellied Woodpecker

I hope you enjoyed my post and photos. 

I appreciate and thank everyone who links up their post and for all the wonderful comments ! 

Here is a list of my linky parties;

Also visit:  I'd-Rather-B-Birdin. Thanks to the gracious host: Anni.

Happy Saturday, enjoy your weekend!

North Point State Park

Happy Monday,

On Nov 16th hubby and I went on a wild goose chase, really it was a chance to see the Snow Buntings in Baltimore County at the North Point State Park.  We have been to this park often  here is my link to some  previous visits to North Point State Park.  I dipped on seeing the Snow Buntings, they must have left over night.  At least I did not travel far and we were able to take a nice walk in the park. Here are some birds and scenery we saw during our park visit.

A pretty Song Sparrow

 Common Mergansers in the Chesapeake Bay

A reflection of the sky on the marsh!

I think this is a Black Rat Snake, we saw a few snakes out on this day.

The Black Marsh Trail

A large ship out in the Chesapeake Bay,  in the background you can see the twin spans of the Chesapeake Bay Bridges.

The Snow Bunting were seen  on the rocks along this pier. The only birds we saw were the Song Sparrows, Common Mergansers and some gulls way out in the bay.

A view of the picnic tables and park and the bay.

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

My list of memes for today, I hope to see you there. Thanks to both of the host below.


Thanks to Michelle for hosting Nature Notes
Thanks to the hosting team of Our World Tuesday!

Thanks to Stewart for hosting Wild Bird Wednesday