{"id":15877,"date":"2026-02-14T12:28:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T18:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=15877"},"modified":"2026-02-14T12:28:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T18:28:03","slug":"critters-found-on-turkey-mountain-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=15877","title":{"rendered":"Critters found on Turkey Mountain and More"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I went on a hike on Tulsa’s Turkey Mountain Urban Wilderness the other day. I found this deer back in the brush. By the time I turned manual focus on, this deer and their two companions were gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Got a mile or so further and came up on some birds. I think they were tufted titmice. They were also hard to focus on but I got a few shots. They are extremely grainy because the birds are extremely small and even with my 300 mm lens I had to crop them a lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Merlin told me that it heard a northern flicker and a cardinal in the area as well. I spotted a northern cardinal and its mate but they were moving around too much for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And later at the far northern end of Turkey Mountain at Pepsi Lake I found these mallard ducks. It looks like two males were romancing a female. Today is Valentines day so I wonder what they got her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I also saw a great blue heron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At home a male cardinal visited the efeeder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A dark eyed junco. I love these guys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A house finch. Such loud voices from very small birds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A squirrel caught on the trailcam. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Inside the house, Lizzy the cat was snoozing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kodi the Pomeranian was being his cute self.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sadie was cuddling up in a throw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s all folks. I’m linking with Eileen’s Saturday’s Critters<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I went on a hike on Tulsa’s Turkey Mountain Urban Wilderness the other day. I found this deer back in the brush. By the time I turned manual focus on, this deer and their two companions were gone. Got a mile or so further and came up on some birds. I think they were tufted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[954],"tags":[1984,3127,4013,1390,3248,1329,3355,3880,942,1314,4014],"class_list":["post-15877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saturdays-critters","tag-birds","tag-cardinals","tag-dark-eyed-juncos","tag-deer","tag-great-blue-heron","tag-hiking","tag-kodi","tag-sadie","tag-saturdays-critters","tag-squirrels","tag-tufted-titmice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15877"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15878,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15877\/revisions\/15878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}