{"id":15564,"date":"2025-06-27T19:21:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T00:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=15564"},"modified":"2025-06-27T19:21:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T00:21:56","slug":"saturdays-critters-on-the-lake-at-the-mountain-and-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=15564","title":{"rendered":"Saturday’s Critters – On the Lake, at the Mountain, and Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nearby was this egret fishing for their lunch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An isolated American White Pelican was paddling around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I rode my bike over to the other side of the river and saw these geese wandering around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Slim pickings on the backyard trailcam except for a couple of dog pics. This is our pom, Kodi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And our rescue terrier, Sadie. Her tail is always straight up in the air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With my camera I captured this mourning dove on the camera feeder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And a sparrow with a bit of fluff it found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A squirrel checking everything out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A brown thrasher<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A house finch<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another sparrow, tiny enough to sit down on the flat part of the fence picket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here’s the Merlin screenshots on the smart aleck birds that I could hear and not see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And here is a short 57 second video of some of birds showed up at the camera feeder the past few days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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