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.

Nearby was this egret fishing for their lunch.

An isolated American White Pelican was paddling around.

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

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

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

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

And a sparrow with a bit of fluff it found.

A squirrel checking everything out.

A brown thrasher

A house finch

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

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.

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.