{"id":15491,"date":"2025-05-11T09:36:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T14:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=15491"},"modified":"2025-05-11T09:36:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T14:36:06","slug":"saturdays-critters-mothers-day-2025-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=15491","title":{"rendered":"Saturday&#8217;s Critters &#8211; Mother&#8217;s Day 2025 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2r3QxPj\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54509717140_f04fd798b3.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC0777\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We finally took our new dog, Sadie, the terrier mix, to a dog park. It had been rainy and cold and we wanted to get our vet to clear Sadie so off we went on one sunny afternoon. Above is my wife Heather with Sadie and Kodi, our pomeranian, in tow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2r3PGDe\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54509551719_cbdcb16cde.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC0772\" width=\"500\" height=\"432\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sadie loved it. She&#8217;s a social butterfly with both dogs and people. She was running here and there making friends with everyone. She was right at home. We kept asking her if she was looking for a new home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2r3Jhcb\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54508493912_2f7983231d.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC0771\" width=\"500\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Kodi has always like the park but is much more reserved. This time, our poor little dog, got run over by another dog and that was it for him. We were told when we got him that he is a little dog with BIG FEELINGS, and that is true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2r3Lya5\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54508937838_f299485cbb_c.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sadie is making friends with Lizzie the cat. Lizzie insists on boundaries though so even though they may be together eventually we hear a hiss and a paw whacking Sadie on the head when she forgets the boundaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2r3AJHy\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54507022242_0e338b07d1_z.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"512\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Kodi being cute one evening. He looks like a little bear cub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2r2Eaf4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54496373587_b58a4f2453.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>At Brookwood Pond in Tulsa, here is a Mother&#8217;s Day shot. Geese and goslings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2r2EapN\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54496374152_9f1ce25477_c.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Also at Brookwood Pond, I&#8217;m sneaking up on Great Blue Heron. All I had for a camera was my phone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2r2vJjf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54494728834_7630a54318_c.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And at Hunter Park in Tulsa, another phone shot of a Great Blue Heron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2r3EoGU\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54507735372_7a399c218e.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"500\" height=\"397\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In our backyard an Eastern Bluebird visited our camera feeder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2r31sJP\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54500334683_0960ae557b.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC0766\" width=\"500\" height=\"417\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I attended an event at Turkey Mountain Urban Wilderness Area and afterward went on a short hike. I was going along and I could hear all these birds up in the trees, but could I see them? No!! I then I got to thinking maybe they are not up in the trees, maybe they are down below so that is where I started looking and I started seeing all sorts of little birds close to the ground. I didn&#8217;t really have a good lens for taking photos so these are highly cropped and thus a little grainy. Above is a Carolina Wren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2r2Z916\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54500076541_14068ed775.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC0755\" width=\"500\" height=\"378\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And this is a Tufted Titmouse I think. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I guess that I am not as smart as I thought I was. I have walked miles in the woods over the years listening to the birds up in the trees and that is not where they were. Anyway, I finally learned something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2o6pxH7\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52569718164_d7f44efbf4_z.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"512\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And Happy Mother&#8217;s Day to all the mothers.. None of us would be here if were not for our Mothers. This Heather with our son Logan and Kodi back when he was little.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2jhdL9S\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50066668178_14b7d6b030_c.jpg\" alt=\"PICT0214\" width=\"583\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And here is my favorite photo of my mother. She loved fishing and she was good at it. She had mobility issues so she didn&#8217;t move around very much but she could catch the fish. 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