Saturday's Critters #236

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!



On May 6th, I did a hike and some birding while my hubby was taking the Historic Tour in Mammoth Cave.  I was able to capture some Warblers, Red-Bellied Woodpecker, Thrushes, Northern Flicker, a Black Rat Snake and a Rough Green Snake.

Above and below a Yellow-rumped Warbler

Indigo Bunting.

Chestnut-sided Warbler

Red-eyed Vireo

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Northern Flicker

Black Rat Snake, it has pretty blue eyes.

Rough Green Snake, it blends in well with the green leaves.

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Happy Saturday, enjoy your weekend!

Saturday's Critters #225

Welcome to Saturday's Critters!

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I have been enjoying the birds right outside my window, the spring birds are arriving and the winter birds are still here as I type this post.  These may not be the clearest photos, they were all taken from my closed dining room window.

The Yellow-shafted Northern Flicker

Pine Warbler and a male Downy Woodpecker

Two Pine Warblers male and female and the Downy Woodpecker.

Female Pine Warbler, they are breeder in the watershed and forest around my house. I have seen the male Pine Warbler most of the winter.

Northern Flicker, Downy Woodpecker, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Red-winged Blackbird, Pine Warbler, Caroline Wren

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

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Saturday's Critters #203

Welcome to Saturday's Critters!

If you love critters 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!

Sharing some birds from our visit to Lake Erie and Presque Isle State Park in Pennsylvania.

We tried to get to park early in the morning, I wanted to see if I could find some new birds. We did see lots of Wood Ducks.

Hermit Thrush

We watched this Belted Kingfisher banging a fish against the tree branch it was sitting on.

Northern Flickers

A large groups of Cormorants.

Great Blue Heron

Green Heron

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Happy Saturday, enjoy your weekend!

Northern Flicker

Happy Monday, enjoy your day!  Happy November, wishing everyone a great new month.

The USA has two species of the Northern Flicker, the Eastern version is the Yellow-shafted Northern Flicker. The Western US has the Red-shafted Northern Flicker. I have seen both species,  the Yellow-shafted Northern Flicker can be found in the woods around our house and all around the eastern US. These are photos I took of the Northern Flicker in Pennsylvania, near the Cook Forest State Park and a couple together in Erie PA. The yellow and the red colors on the Northern Flicker show up on the birds underwings.

The Northern Flicker is in the Woodpecker family. You can just barely make out the yellow color under it's tail feathers.

Male Northern Flickers have the black moustache and they red at the nape of the neck. They feed on the ground looking for insects.

Below is the female, you can see it is missing the black moustache. They do have the black under the neck and the black spots like the males.

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 Stewart for hosting Wild Bird Wednesday

Cook Forest State Park

Happy Thankful Thursday! 

Last week, hubby and I visited the Cook Forest State Park in Northwest Pennsylvania. My tree hugging hubby enjoys seeing old growth forest and this park is known for it's Forest Cathedral of towering White Pines and Hemlocks. We enjoyed walking the trails for a day and half, staying at a local hotel in Clarion Pa. 

Walking the trails, I checked out the birds, mushrooms and the trees. Below, you will see some of our sights while visiting this park. In the mosaic, a Hairy woodpecker, Wren, the only bear we saw, Northern Flicker, Wooly Bear Caterpillar, Wood Thrush, Butterfly and a Robin. 

We walked over the swinging bridge on one of the trails.

Tall pines, moss covered rocks and lots of mushrooms.

The Northern Flickers were seen often. The skies were clear and a pretty blue.

Turkey Feathers, it is amazing even to see what grow on a fallen tree. The mushrooms and fungi are beautiful.

The creek near the picnic pavilion, a pretty orange leaf fall tree.

We saw a few different woodpeckers while walking the trails, I believe this is a Hairy Woodpecker. It seemed larger in size than the Downy Woodpeckers.

After leaving Cook Forest State Park we made a slight detour and met blogging friend Linda of Thebeautyaroundus  at the Kinzua Bridge State Park.  I will be doing a blog more about this park and meeting Linda on my Travel blog

For my skywatch, I view of the sky and destroyed bridge in Kinzua Bridge State Park. If you look hard you can see part of the bridge laying on the ground. That is from the tornado. 

I am thankful for our for the people who acquired this land and turned it into a place for all the public to enjoy. The trees years ago could have been logged but one person saw that these trees needed to be saved and made sure that they were protected. 

I am always thankful for your visits and your 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. Have a happy day!