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Saturday’s Critters – On the Lake, at the Mountain, and Home

I went on a bike ride the other day. I saw this great blue heron and a turtle hanging out together on Zink Dam here in Tulsa.

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Nearby was this egret fishing for their lunch.

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An isolated American White Pelican was paddling around.

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I rode my bike over to the other side of the river and saw these geese wandering around.

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Slim pickings on the backyard trailcam except for a couple of dog pics. This is our pom, Kodi.

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And our rescue terrier, Sadie. Her tail is always straight up in the air.

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With my camera I captured this mourning dove on the camera feeder.

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And a sparrow with a bit of fluff it found.

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A squirrel checking everything out.

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A brown thrasher

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A house finch

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Another sparrow, tiny enough to sit down on the flat part of the fence picket.

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I went hiking on Turkey Mountain on Wednesday. I heard all sorts of birds and even spotted some but I wasn’t quick enough to take their photo. Oh well, I saw this guy though out in the open and it was polite enough to wait for me while I got my camera, focused and took a few shots. Merlin and google images tell me that it is a Western King Bird. I had never heard of such a thing but there it is. Number 19 on my recently started life list.

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Here’s the Merlin screenshots on the smart aleck birds that I could hear and not see.

And here is a short 57 second video of some of birds showed up at the camera feeder the past few days.

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

Saturday’s Critters – Feather and Fur

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A mourning dove perched on our backyard fence.

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A house sparrow looking for a bite to eat at one of our feeders.

Our Pom, Kodi had a date at a neighborhood dog park the other day. We are looking for a bigger female to help calm him down. We met with a foster parent who brought a Pomski (combo Pom and Husky). It didn’t seem like a good match so we’ll just continue looking. It was nice being outside!!

Our tabby Lizzy, continuing her knee healing mission with me. She likes it when I put the ice packs on my knee so she can go lay on me.

On other knee news, I have been released from home health PT. In fact I got cleared for not using the walker any longer, nor a cane. I can just walk. Slowly. The home health nurse said that I was the only one of her patients who got knee replacements the same week I did that is walking on their own. I will say that I worked my butt off on both the pre-surgery exercises and then again on post surgery. So I start at studio PT hopefully next week. Right now I can go to the gym but no submerging the incision in water. They advised me not to drive just yet and I agree with them. I like being chauferred around by my wife. My wife has been a lifesaver on this surgery recovery in a bunch of different ways. I’m a blessed man, what can I say.

I am linking with Saturday’s Critters!

Backyard Warm Afternoon Critters

Last Monday it was warm, all day. I declared it a shorts day and took a drink, my book, and camera out to the backyard.

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Robins were out and about.

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This is the same robin only on a fence and turned away. Amazing to me how they look like a completely different bird.

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The mourning doves were out and about. They are such calm birds.

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I got some golden hour light on this one.

This is a 29 second video summarizing the non-sparrow birds that visit the camera feeder. I’m up to about 220 visits a day. Almosts all of them house sparrows with some juncos thrown in. So what I call interesting birds is not very many. That’s okay.

I am linking with Saturday’s Critters.