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Saturday’s Critters – At Home and in the Woods

A variety of critters for this week.

This is our sweet cat Lizzy.

This is our sweet terrier mix, Sadie in a rare moment of napping. She is always on the go. No photos of the Pomeranian Kodi this week.

We play fetch several times a day. She never gets tired of it. I quit before she ever does. She’s our cheerful dog. This is how we started out Thanksgiving morning. Over and over again. (only a ten second video)

My wife’s cousin sent me a couple of photos of the cows on their ranch in Western Oklahoma.

Another photo of the cows at the ranch.

This is my own photo of a cow, I went hiking on a rails to trails trail in Osage County. It cuts through ranchland on an old railroad bed. I know nothing about cows but they always act curious when people show up.

I went hiking on Tulsa’s Turkey Mountain Wilderness Area early Friday morning. My friend and I saw this deer checking us out.

I attended a geocaching event at Tulsa’s Mohawk Park and encountered these people horseback riding through the park.

That’s it for this week. I am linking with Saturday’s Critters.

Saturday’s Critters – White Tailed Deer of Oxley Nature Center

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During a hike at Oxley Nature Center last Sunday I saw a few deer out and about. They were not in the open they were in brush and trees. So I got to practice simultaneously manual focusing, and aperture. Not that good at it but I got a few decent photos.

I love seeing deer out in the wild.

It is always so unexpected.

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Saturday’s Critters – The Last Cardinal of Fall

Nobody naps as hard or as peacefully as our Lizzy the cat. She loves taking naps on the back of our sofa. Sometimes she’ll use one of the dog beds.

I walked into our family room the other day and all three critters were staring at me. What were they up to? I never figured it out. From left to right is Kodi the Pomeranian, Lizzy the Cat, and Sadie the terrier.

I’m a bad efeeder owner. I let the feeder run out of food and just plain forgot about it. I decided to take it down, clean it out and store it for a little while. While checking the app, the only bird that showed up the last several weeks was this lonely, hungry male cardinal. Boy did I feel bad. It’s only an 11 second video.

I’m linking with Eileen’s Saturday’s Critters. Go check it out, lots of animal lovers and great photobloggers link up with her.

Saturday’s Critters – A Sampling, Live and Bronzed.

Here is out Lizzie the cat chilling out.

Sculpture on Tulsa RiverParks Trails of mule deer.

Some Canadian Geese in another sculpture on the RiverParks Trails

And also seen from the trail, a great blue heron fishing for its lunch in the Arkansas River.

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Kodi and Lizzy Portraits andMore!

Our Pomeranian, Kodi. A tiny little dog with big feelings!

Lizzy the cat, the matriarch of our pets. We have another dog, Sadie who never sits still. Lizzy is Sadie’s favorite squeaky toy.

A pig chef on Route 66 in Tulsa. I love the silliness of route 66 attractions.

And a retired carousel horse getting new life on Route 66. It’s ready to ride. I also love the metal cactus to the left. The 100th anniversary of Route 66 is next year I think. It’s going to be epic in Tulsa.

I’m linking with Eileen’s Saturday’s Critters. Check it out. All sorts of talented photobloggers participate.

Saturday’s Critters – On the Trail and at Home

A robin I captured on Turkey Mountain Friday afternoon.

Another robin in the same area on a different pass yesterday.

Ducks on the fishing pond at Lafortune Park earlier in the week.

Two separate sculptures working together at the Scheel’s Store at the mall.

Lizzie the cat, grooming Sadie to dog in a tender moment.

Kodie and Sadie wanting in!!

Sadie on my lap while I was watching television the other night.

Finally a 21 second video of other critter moments during the week. Featuring the bird cam, a sparrow, a dove, an angry squirrel, and me and Sadie playing fetch. Yep, all that fits in 21 seconds so pay attention!!

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Saturday’s Critters – Carolina Wren on the Trail

I was out hiking on Tulsa’s Turkey Mountain Urban Wilderness Area, with my “good camera”, and I heard a bird call. The Merlin App said it was a Carolina Wren. So I just stopped and stood still and was looking around and I saw two little birds that I thought could be them. They are kind of flighty so I just waited until I had a clear shot and took several and this one was the best one of the lot. I’ve learned to use manual focus when I am shooting bird photos in trees and brush otherwise the camera will focus on miscellaneous twigs, branches and leaves. I know it is grainy, it is highly cropped. But I will take. Carolina Wrens are beautiful birds.

I think that I am slowly getting better spotting and photographing birds.

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Sadie the Rescue Dog

Sadie, the rescue dog. We got her around Saint Patrick’s Day this year and she is gradually settling in with us in her forever home. She is very sweet and loving but she doesn’t take any foolishness from our male pom Kodi. If he gets aggressive she just flips him over on his back and holds him down with one paw. It’s kind of hilarious.

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Saturday’s Critters – Great Blue Heron and Others

I spotted this Great Blue Heron in the Arkansas River while I was bicycling.

On the same ride I stopped by this cool mural of a frog.

This is Sadie, our rescue terrier. She is a very sweet loving dog. She likes to play and play, and then she’ll stop and drop on the floor and fall fast asleep. Her fur is kind of scraggly but we love her just the same.

An Eurasian Eagle Owl on display at an event my wife and attended last week. What a beautiful bird. The handler said the owl flies free and hunts every day. He was only delayed once for an hour or so because some red shouldered hawks were attacking it, so it hid in a tree until the hawks went away.

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Saturday’s Critters – A Trip to the Tulsa Zoo

One of the great things about being retired is you really have a lot of time to do what you want to do. The other day I wanted to go to the zoo so I just went. The best time to go to the zoo is after school starts in the fall and during the week.

Notice the long line at the entrance. Not!! Zoo staff outnumbered visitors that day.

The first thing I did of course was go find a geocache. It involved the base of that rotating sculpture behind me. It was an earthcache so there were not a physical cache to find, I had to answer questions about the base. It took me a while but I think I got it.

And I passed by one of the pollinator gardens in the zoo. I spotted this Gulf Fritillary butterfly. What a beauty.

And this pipestone swallowtail.

And this hummingbird. I don’t know what kind and AI wasn’t sure. So if you know what kind it is please let me know in the comments. (Goes for any of the information in this post, let me know if I am wrong.)

From there I went to see the elephants. They are all Asiatic elephants. Elephants in zoos is very controversial. I get it.

And a komodo dragon.

And a kangaroo resting in the shade.

A pair of bald eagles.

A fuzzy photo of snow leopards chilling out.

An alligator floating in the water.

And a quartet of grey headed silverbills.

I took some short videos of other critters and then had my iphone stitch them together. The resulting clip is only 37 second long. Check it out if you have the time.

I loved my trip to the Tulsa Zoo. Do you like zoos? I love them.

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